Cassie: The new Ciara?

Just discovering her album. It's tremendous! I prefer it to the new Amerie and Rihanna.

Long Way 2 Go hooked me in (funny MySpace-themed video!) and it's the delightful pop of Ditto and smouldering of Kiss Me that I'm currently stuck on.

Rumor has it she got dropped from Bad Boy.

This makes me a sad panda.

Siik (the dude who made that jazzy remix of Amerie's "1 Thing" a couple years back also remixed "Me & U" and again, it sounds like a completely different song. It's great.

yeah the siik remix is pretty awesome

i guess the album didnt sell v. well? cuz it pretty much ruled from end to end (a lot of this was leslies production, anyone know anything else of note hes done?)

cassie :(

the other two noteworthy ryan leslie productions i've heard - both v much in the same gently minimalist vein - are the new megan rochell single, 'my mistake', and 'like that', off the jojo album. both v well worth hearing.

is the whole jojo album worth checking out? i hadnt seen the list of producers till just now, a veritable whos who of hiphop-pop crossover appeal

it is, mostly - it's not exactly consistent but she does a v good beyonce impression on the swizz beats track, the storch one is surprisingly r leslie-esque (thought that was his one for ages), there's a really nice digitised country thing...

oh yeah i didn't realise this before i heard the new album but jojo can really sing

BOOOOOO. "Sometimes" is great!

Turns out she wasn't dropped by Bad Boy thankfully. New album Still Cassie due out in October.

YEAHH!

The new single is kinda mediocrish.

YOU'RE WRONG.

Well, if you say.

Exactly.

"Me & U" = Sinister and Seductive
"Sometimes" = Unsure and Sweet

They use the same sound effects, and they're both based around the same setup (verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge for "Me & U"/guest spot for "Sometimes"-chorus). They're like cousin tracks...Obv. "Me & U" is better, but "Sometimes" goes down just as easily.

"Me & U" >>>>> "Sometimes" >> "Long Way 2 Go"

I want this album. Sure, as a single, "Turn the Lights Off" is a bit of a letdown, but I now prefer "Is It You" to "Sometimes" and maybe even "Me & U." That fuzzy guitar, the perfect structure and hook. Oh, and Cassie sound sweet and soulful...it's perfect.

This thread is absurd without pictures! "Me & U" is CLASSIC.

Is It You

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/cassie.jpg

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wow cassie is actually getting better at singing! she can now be up their with hilary duff! keep going cassie i always knew you had potential

OK OK. I underestimated this "Turn the Lights Off" track, but I'm not going for this "In Love With the DJ" one. BLAAAH.

Cassie,
Based on those first three tracks, this could be my number one album of the year. Don't fuck up! <3
-tape store

Shit, I never heard Me&U before I clicked on this thread. So daringly empty, Its basically her and that snare for the first minute. I dig minimalism.

uh, not to keep bumping this, but I just listened to "Sometimes" with the bass up. There's this fucking amazing growling noise going on throughout the entire thing. AWESOME.

Yeah, "Sometimes" is still the best leaked song IMO... followed by "Turn The Lights Off"

The album is due out in February now, btw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YlcdSVZA80

The first single from her new album is called "Official Girl". Produced by Danja, should leak any day now...

!!!!!!!!!!

Best album of the year, i bet!

not to jinx it or anything

btw, where'd you hear that? Google says nothing.

oops. wikipedia, i see

actually she said it on 106 & Park today

jeez, you guys sure know how to pick a random-ass singer to obsess over. I just saw Step Up 2 The Streets and she's only in it for like 5 minutes, but I'll leave it up to you to decide whether that's worth camping outside the movie theatre for.

yeah i respect you two dudes but this cassie obsession boggles me

'me + u' is classic for all time but i don't see much beyond that tbh

Tape Store has been notoriously SUSPECT
getting all !!!!!!!! about 'produced by danja' is pretty weird

that said, j0rdan ... "Is It You"? She's got some great other tracks, its just

tbh my interest was peaked by produced by danja

i mean he coaxed a good song out of lifeless 07 britney, i don't see why he couldn't do the same for cassie

plus last year alone he had production credits on the only two good songs on the timbaland album, 2 of the 4 great songs on the t.i. album + we takin over so i'll check for his shit for at least the rest of this year

but shes already got good producers??? why have we been led to believe anything great will come from this, danja has some great beats, some wack ones, just like anyone else. i dont get why anyone would be all :D !!! DANJAHANDS!!! and i dont even hate the dude like RTC does

http://www.earthmusicnetwork.com/netsy/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/Haterade.gif

im taking the middle road here! you & alex were hating

This moment when the singer/producer dynamic-duo falters for the first time is usually the beginning of the end of something great though. I mean... great songs have come out of Amerie and Kelis working with producers other than their original partners-in-crime, but there's a whole loss of innoncence / kicked out of Eden vibe to it all isn't there.

but there's a whole loss of innoncence

but tapestore still likes it! oh wait that was a typo wasnt it.

anwyay yeah SUSPECT isnt the half. hard to fathom how anyone with an appreciation of cassie's uh fragile fortes wouldnt be imagining this collabo with some tredipation - ok granted there've been moments when danja suggests he could be a sensitive match (the offbeat kath mcphee & nikki flores teenpop stuff in particular) but if he goes and does his usual and britneys it she'll just get swallowed right up, surely. even furtadoing it would probably be too strong (not to mention it being straight uninteresting).

4 the record i think danja is potentially a monster producer but kinda needs to get out from under the timbrella now, especially following his showstopping cameo on 'i get naked'. otherwise yes wearisomely overrated, and never more so than when caught up in some tryhard's "nu-hiphouse omg omg i like dance" baby steps cobblers.

haha errr i have not a bit of anger in me and that post still managed to come out gunning dudes? these fingers are kinda possessed.

LOL. I'm not obsessed with Cassie, I just think her first album is excellent (in spite of her weak vocals), so of course I'm looking forward to the follow-up.

I'm a bit obsessed, yeah. Like Brainwasher, I'm a huge fan of her debut (and again, moreso because of Ryan Leslie, but Cassie still contributed a lot to the record...shame Just Friends didn't make the cut). It's a really consistent album.

What excites me now, though, is how much growth both Cassie and Leslie have shown since the debut. All the leaks are of a much higher quality than the ones that appear on her album...better production, better, more confident and more emotional singing and better songs (as said upthread, I prob. prefer "Is It You" to "Me & U")

They're a great duo, the closest, i think, we've come to an Aaliyah/Timbo situation. So yeah, I'm extremely excited about the album. And Danja? Well, he played a huge role in two of my favorite records of the '00s (my #1, FutureSex/LoveSounds, and Blackout)

btw, Cassie sounds a hell of a lot more exciting than other R&B favorites like, say, Amerie, who haven't really grown much from record to record.

"timbrella"!

THX everyone for not pointing out the complete fuckup in my post (that Just friends song = dif. cassie...one who has a bigger voice but a more soulless one). or maybe thx for not reading.