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Do you want us to get some hats made up with 'Like a Dude' for your merch desk? Chart-bothering fads come and go, without so much as producing a single ear worm. Also, the lyrics of "Friday" may be undeniably clunky, but there is a magic to them that makes the song funny and immensely quotable, like a lot of great pop songs throughout history. Right then, we need one for the non-white demo’. ...I said yet! The contemporary pop landscape is already crowded with well-defined female pop stars-- postmodern disco artiste Lady Gaga, fierce soul goddess Beyoncé, slovenly party girl Ke$ha, cheesecake goofball Katy Perry, cyborg sexpot Britney Spears, troubled ice queen Rihanna, and perennial underdog Robyn. MANDEM! Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. Jessie J doesn't have even a fraction of their restraint; her idea of showcasing her gift is to shoot for a blaring melisma on "Mamma Knows Best" that makes Christina Aguilera seem as subtle as Joni Mitchell by comparison. Can maybe you just do something like that Paramore track on Twilight? That wasn’t a question, hun. Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter, Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alternative must sees, A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash, Way Out East: DiS Does Sharpe Festival 2019, 25 years of SPOT Festival: DiS Picks Its Best 11. Jon Dolan's Most Recent Stories. I can’t make it in today, have some fun, maybe see if you can make a mash-up of Leona and Lady Sov’? Who You Are is riddled with so-called vocal performances that are a half a step above an X Factor audition but that’s what makes it ‘genuine’ and ‘fer-realies’. Find out more about our use of this data, and also our policy on profanity. Whateverz. In short, it’s a barely there Mel C-ish record that moulds itself to whatever 'you' want it to be. Out March 4th 2016. UK pop star Jessie J is charmless, banal, vapid, and suddenly all over the place. She’s the mum-friendly, tabloid trendy, beige Minaj: minus Nicki’s magic, schizo ‘characters’ and lyrical dexterity. The track has her lashing out against acquaintances who she claims bullied her and dissed her early music, but now show an interest in her since she has attained some degree of success. No need to make those eyes honey. Ain’t No Other Man-period Christina Aguilera. She’s got a brash ‘tude like Ke$ha’s just gatecrashed her party-bus. In the bag baby, IN THE BAG! I’ll see if I can get you one of those Brazilian hair treatments tomorrow if you want, get your little PR dolly to see if Glamour want to come down and take some snappy snaps? Track 9: ‘Mamma Knows Best’ Mainly, Jessie J seems to be surplus to demand. Even through bad vocal processing, Black sounds like a specific person. Throw in tipping season plaudits based mostly on people hearing one or two songs and seeing a performance on Jools Holland and yeah, here is her well-received, number one ‘wid a bullet’ debut album Who You Are, for all the world to buy. Jon Dolan Jon Dolan Reporter. I mean, we gotta be careful else people might start noticin’ we’ve nicked this boring drum beat off Janet’s last record... That’s it, smashed it! Actually, I’ll give Twilight a call now, I think the bird who picks the music wanted tickets for some spit ‘n’ whistle band the other week. Yeah, we need one of those. Read about our approach to external linking. While the decision to keep it makes it clear Who’s Laughing Now (more bad-attitude swagger), it’s a lightweight Rude Boy rip-off masquerading as confrontational thug-pop. Did you hear that Xtina track she did for that movie about chicks in pants? Right, today we want you to make this a bit more Rihanna-like but let’s hold it back a bit, radio don’t like over-emoting these days - you’re not bloody Cyndi Lauper yet darlin’! This is dead-eyed pop with aspirations of being your comfort food but turns out to be a starchy soulless slop. Jessie J – born Jessica Cornish in Redbridge – rushes up and down her scales on this anticipated debut album; but there’s more than one occasion where her fluctuating pitch is a pain in the ear. A big empowerment song that Benetton might want to use in Q4 if we get all our ducks in a line and blow those yellow fuckerz out of the water. Home Music Album Reviews. Do you remember how in the late Nineties everyone had acoustic guitars and had really short verses so they could drop the chorus before people got bored and turned from MTV to cartoons? The opening track, “The Hostess,” is one of the latter. Maybe pretend you’re the new Alanis Morrissette if that makes you feel more comfortable? Yeah, you know what I mean, I’m bein’ a racialist babydoll! The single "Do It Like a Dude" is dancehall pastiche that isn't too far off from Robyn's "Dancehall Queen", but trades that singer's warmth and humanity for spiteful hectoring. and then we’ll go get you some sugar-free cupcakes across the road..uh-huh..yeah-yeah.... Track 2: ‘Nobody’s Perfect’ What about some girl-sized Y-Fronts? That ok? Mamma Knows Best brings a big-band-trapped-in-a-synthesizer sound to the fore, more Pixie Lott than Ain’t No Other Man-period Christina Aguilera. There’s ample room for improvement, but given the well-documented hurdles Cornish has already overcome one shouldn’t write her off just yet. Think big, big, big but not too Mariah. Do you want to re-do the vocals? I’ll throw those b-sides on the end and job’s a good ‘un. Leave it with me babes. Track 4: ‘Big White Room’ (Live) 8/10. Track 12: ‘I Need This’ We can get rat-arsed in the sunsets and you can chillax a bit whilst the marketing monkeys do their thing. Oh go on then, you can ‘ave it, go over the top, it’ll just make the next track sound more like a single... [scribbles 'filler track' in his notebook]. A shame, as when she’s not overreaching Cornish showcases sweet, if unspectacular, vocals. Awww babes, don’t cry... let’s go get some carb-free sandwiches and maybe I’ll let you play 10mins of Angry Birds if you don’t make a scene... Track 6: ‘Rainbow’ In some cases, it is all too obvious that the writers are trying to write a "type" of song. And by 'you' I mean, like, a marketing demographic version of you that drags your two tyrant kids around your local shopping centre and thinks Stella is for posh pricks. If not, I’m sure David Cameron will want something to play next time he has to go walk into a press conference at an inner city school. The acoustic ballad "Big White Room" aims for beautiful simplicity, but its delicacy is drowned out by a clumsy and overwrought vocal performance. Just 35 minutes long, the album is a mix of downbeat mood pieces, more fully fleshed-out songs, and effervescent ambient miniatures. She goes over the top with this affectation on the bratty rocker "Who's Laughing Now", a song that could very well be the nadir of modern pop's fixation with attacking "haters." Throw in tipping season plaudits based mostly on people hearing one or two songs and seeing a performance on Jools Holland and yeah, here is her well-received, number one ‘wid a bullet’ debut album Who You Are, for all the world to buy. As evidenced by her breakthrough debut single, Do It Like a Dude, Cornish has an annoying habit of inserting zany tics where songs would benefit from being played straighter (one Ke$ha is quite enough, thanks). The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. Jessie J's persona seems most defined when she is being totally obnoxious. Oh and what’s your mum’s address, I want to send her a parcel from Harrods, mummers love that shit! The brass section should be in the studio already but if they can’t understand your instructions we can just use some samples, don’t sweat it babes. A pretty acoustic ballad, Big White Room – recorded live, applause included – is ruined by unnecessary gymnastics. When the pressure’s lifted, she could conjure up a classic. Good girl! Mass moments are few and far between, especially in the UK now that there’s no TOTP-like show and there’s only about ten or so tracks on loop on commercial radio. Let’s drop the tempo down a little bit. Clearly she has some chemistry with these two, as the most tolerable cuts on Who You Are happen to be collaborations with them. Track 13: ‘Who You Are’ I know you don’t love it but it’ll be a good one to sing on any teen tv shows to suck in all those gloomy eleven year olds whose cats, gerbils or mums just died. Very faint praise, though: "Price Tag" sounds like Nelly Furtado fronting Sugar Ray, and "Abracadabra" could pass for a reasonably decent Natasha Bedingfield deep cut. You can add or edit information about Who You Are at musicbrainz.org . Rather than try to shock and awe, 'Pop' has retreated into the not-so-distant past for inspiration, retching up fashions and dredging for synthetic sounds that didn’t quite connect enough to be attached, ingrained and defined to any particular era (see also: that godawful recent Black Eyed Peas single and various post-Calvin Harris glittery-farts).

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