Introducing Joss Stone

Product Details

Artist : Joss Stone
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0094637626825
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2007-03-20
UPC : 946376268258

ASIN : B000MTPAGI

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Change (Vinnie Jones Intro)
2. Girl They Won't Believe It
3. Headturner
4. Tell Me `Bout It
5. Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now feat. Common
6. Put Your Hands On Me
7. Music feat. Lauryn Hill
8. Arms Of My Baby
9. Bad Habit
10. Proper Nice
11. Bruised But Not Broken
12. Baby Baby Baby
13. What Were We Thinking
14. Music Outro

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Editorial Reviews

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In the run-up to this, her third album, Joss Stone told a phalanx of glossy magazines that the difference between this disc and the two that preceded it was a newfound clarity of vision. Whereas the other records--their gold status notwithstanding--represented the fumblings of a huge-voiced kid being bossed around by experienced music-biz types, this one, she promised, would reveal the real her. Thus, the titular "introduction." To which anybody who spins the 14 groovy and fully unbuttoned tracks herein will wish to reply not "nice to meet you"--far too lame a sentiment for so fully realized a disc--but "Where have you been all my life?" As good as Joss Stone's previous efforts are, Introducing Joss Stone represents a giant step forward: there's a freshness to these songs that suits her age (19 as of the album's release) and a funkiness that suits modern pop sensibilities. There's also a cross-hatching of visions with artists like Lauryn Hill and Common that will rightly advance her reputation as an artist who can sling disco, R&B, and rock almost as convincingly as soul. Splicing girl-group harmonies with blaxploitation-style funk with Joplin-esque and, at times, Shelby Lynne-reminiscent vocals, Stone works these Raphael Saadiq-produced beats with the stealth and steadiness of a '70s-era legend who's still going strong. "Girl They Won't Believe It," she wails against the tight hoo-hoo harmonizing of talented backup singers on the opening track; get a load of how much she's accomplished in the space of three albums, and you won't believe it, either. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

The voice is still mesmerizing. (2007-03-20)

"Introducing Joss Stone" doesn't begin with a soulful bang but a huge question mark with listeners subjected to a nonsensical rant by ex-footballer turned wannabe Hollywood actor Vinnie Jones. Cringe worthy and thuggish, it's a terrible way to kick off an album and it makes you wonder what exactly Joss was thinking - if indeed anything at all - to sanction such an obvious PR stunt. Even more problematic, however, is the lack of genuine soul from the Devon singer. Yes, her voice remains extraordinarily powerful, but unlike her neo soul contemporary Jill Scott and Amy Winehouse she never really sounds like she means it. As a consequence, fine production work by Raphael Saadiq (D'Angelo, Macy Gray) on the vintage Motown flavoured "Arms of My Baby" and the hypnotic, lazy groove based "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now", which bears a resemblance to Whitney Houston's 1999 hit "My Love is Your Love", feels undeserved and wasted. Stone's general disconnectedness from the material also rubs off on guest vocalist Lauryn Hill whose rap performance on the languid R&B funk of "Music" is reason enough to approach the Fugees' upcoming project with much trepidation. Perhaps this will change as Stone matures and acquires the inevitable emotional scars, but right now she is still very much a work in progress. The voice is still mesmerising four years after a 15-year-old Joss Stone burst on to the music scene. Unfortunately, powerful vocal cords aren't enough to save the teenager's third record, the strangely named "Introducing Joss Stone".

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