Jessie Ware - 110% (and everything else she's done)

She does not have Canada stops on this tour apparently? Or ever? Sigh.

Speaking of, Canadian girl she's touring with, Rochelle Jordan, is super talented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmtYq_nrnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO_oSH1qnHo

she's touring with Rochelle Jordan?!?!

ugh. WHY ARE THEY NOT COMING TO CANADA

i can't make it down to see this, oh well.

"Still Love Me" sounds too much like Annie Lennox for me

― curmudgeon, Thursday, November 22, 2012 4:34 PM (2 months ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/arts/music/jessie-ware-and-her-new-ep-if-youre-never-gonna-move.html

"I’ve been deeply influenced by lots of American soul and R&B, but also these really strong British musicians like Annie Lennox and Sade. I need to remember I’m not from L.A. or New York, so there’s only so far I can go with the American thing.

On your new EP, you cover Bobby Caldwell, the blue-eyed soul guy.

I’m a white Jewish girl — come on! Much as I’d love to be Aaliyah, I’m not."

'still love me' is great, poss my fave track on the album, love the way it gently tidally transforms from an ungainly clanking 80sness into something becoming ever more powerful even as it diffuses in slowmo. "if i make myself understood" by hypnosis

& if i may

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyPMNHyhkX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSMTZZAUEcw

you'll be my night
LIGHT

Months later "Still Love Me" is still my total fav track on the album; I'm v surprised she hasn't released it as a single.

Much as I’d love to be Aaliyah, I’m not."

― curmudgeon, Monday, January 28, 2013 1:33 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aaliyah please
this is green envy

When I hear piano in the chorus of Night Light I'm always happily reminded of the floating plinkety plonkety piano sounds in this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeI9zNNP8bE

Katy B insists that Aaliyah isn't actually about Aaliyah - it's about someone at a club and she looked at her iTunes library for a name - but maybe one great thing about the record is that Jessie thinks it is.

can understand katy not wanting to put too deadeningly fine a point on it tbf

Yes, obviously the ambiguity's key but I found it interesting that the name, with all its associations, was an afterthought for her because it's the first thing that strikes the listener.

yeah idk it's just a little bit too "no my dog's name is aaliyah you see" to really hold water

who cares anyway we're the artists here not them

Well I don't think she was lying to me but I'm only throwing that out there as a bit of trivia rather than anything that should affect your (or my) reading of the song.

i've seen this woman perform twice in the past week, and i don't think there is a lovelier person alive on this planet

i could listen to her sing and make dorky jokes forever.

also "no to love" is my least favourite song on the album but live it really shines, she turns it into a funk guitar jam.

Good to hear, always thought "no to love" had very special potential but that it didn't take off the ground.

So good but more crucially SO PERSONABLE live! I've never seen a person more endearing.

seems to be a common experience. My friends who went to see her were totally in love

she is gonna play the berghain end of march, i think i'll be there!

I meant to post this v sentiment on thread; it's something I've told ppl a million times after seeing her show: she is so fucking magnetic/charismatic/humble/personable/adorable and such a treat to watch sing AND ALSO banter btwn songs!

Also the contrast between her singing and speaking voice is a joy to behold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS6kSagTixk&feature=player_embedded

!!!

I always felt there was a spark of something interesting in the Rhianna song, and this just ignites it and turns such a mediocre song into something close to Sade-esque perfection.

there is video of that ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e2rzp6#p015338v

She's talking on the radio right now. Would kick it with Jessie.

Haha now she's talking about Roy Keane bullying Gareth Southgate.

she does seem pretty great

i like the way her twitter picture is a really awful midframe gurn from bbc news

Not listening to it, but she's always been good when I've seen her interviewed in the past.

Would a Devotion vs On A Mission be fun or just a pointless waste of space?

maybe i should poll that question

"Imagine It Was Us"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w4v_RpIDBwM#!

this bangs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4v_RpIDBwM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Damn right.

yesssss

bashmore did this huh. ratings

makes me so happy ^^

hyetal was involved as well apparently

daaaaaamn feeling this song so hard right now

of all available stocks and shares on the market 'run to love' sounding v much like loose ends or whatever (plus the bobby caldwell cover i guess) had me most down for a kinda uk boogie britsoul update thing

60% less enthused by other framings

― r|t|c, Friday, 10 August 2012 08:27 (7 months ago) Bookmark

^^^^

come 2 think of it this sound is actually kind of a vibes right now, albeit elsewhere more cartoonishly

skream mix of duke dumont/ame, krystal klear/jenna g

I am not against "White Noise" and "Aaliyah" as sonic templates for UK pop

it's... not quite like that. and templates are too linear besides

tbh i would hesitate to imply ware being germane to wider drifts at all as she is and has been very much a cupid shooting arrows of her own

beyond her there's thoughts to be had though sure

jessie ware + julio bashmore + hyetal = yessss

is another album already on the way then??

it's one of two bonus tracks for the US release of devotion

julio bashmore + hyetal = velour

oh!