I've been looking for a reason to post a picture of Sydney model Dominque Le-Toullec. More on her later. Now onto the new music I feel I should share this week:
I must admit I've pretty much ignored everything from Jennifer Hudson after I copped her album and only enjoyed 3 or 4 songs on the entire project. Especially after she won an imo, unjustified Grammy for it.
With that said, I am normally aware of most things Madd Scientist and Rock City do musically, so my ignorance seems to have deafened me on this occasion. "If This Isn't Love" is the 2nd? official single from Hudsons debut album Jennifer Hudson. It is produced by Brian Kennedy (Forever, Disturbia) & Madd Scientist and written by Theron Thomas of Rock City.
I especially enjoy the way Rock City slipped in the Real Life "Send Me An Angel" line into the prechorus, or maybe it was just coincidence? either way this song is working for me.
Over the past week I've been listening and talking alot about Jesse McCartney's upcoming album Departure. Its Great. Really.
OK OK,I know right now you're thinking "WTF, FUEGO, WHY YOU BULLSHITTING ME?" much like the reaction of everyone I've been raving to over the past week, and I don't blame you. I've only just comes to terms with the concept of my favourite album of the year being a Jesse McCartney album.
From start to finish, the album is produced and written exceptionally .. minus the Sean Garrett produced/written doo-doo sandwich "Rock You". Clearly Hollywood have acquired the services of the best producers/songwriters in current pop/r&b to make this album a success and I gotta hand it to Hollywood, they A&R'd the hell out of this project. I guess you could compare it to the job Jive did with Britney's Blackout. I should also acknowledge that McCartney delivers every song quite well and puts his own vibe to them. With that said, I'd love to hear the original demo's.
The album features production/songwriting from The Dream/Tricky, The Clutch, MaddScientist, JR Rotem, Kwame, Eric Hudson and more. I'm surprised Danja didn't get a look tho.
MaddScientist steals the show for me with his intricately creative production on "Relapse" & "Freaky". The arrangement and progression of both songs is just brilliant. JR's "My Baby" is also quite incredible with its uber-MJ vibe, along with The Clutch's flawless songwriting on "Its Over" .. I could sit here writing about the technical/sonic brilliance of many tracks but I'll save it and let y'all check the album for yourselves. Departure is out May 20th through Hollywood Records.
