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

Concentrating intently to ensure he's not going over any of the lines.

the miguel song tho. been in my head all day

i was having a senior moment when i posted my reaction to ed sheeran: i was actually thinking of jessy lanza

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lol rumor has it that this ed sheeran one is the one interscope plans to push to us radio :(((

it's def in that sandé / sam smith lane

https://soundcloud.com/jessieware/jessie-ware-want-your-feeling

produced by ilx favourite Dev Hynes

rubbish, all rubbish

let us now switch allegiance to sinead harnett

been really forgiving of the last three tracks but this is very dev hynes i.e. blank synth washes and grooveless overstimulated drums, can't get down with it. nice guitar filigrees though

oh why are these all so bad??? and really...personality-free. they don't seem very *jessie ware* at all

Not a huge fan of Dev Hynes but this tracks seems to work for me? I'm not sure, I like the idea reminds of late 80s corny french pop (that willl always win me over) but the whole thing seems very constrained but that could be the audio quality of soundcloud.

I like this more than the last one but I'm not a Dev Hynes hater (at least, not when he works with other musicians)

"Champagne Kisses" is basically the song of the year though

i'm so deeply looking forward to the miguel collabs that i'm going to wish he were on the whole record

"Champagne Kisses" is basically the song of the year though

this is out there? i don't mean a shonky live clip

New song isn't that bad, you guys. Jeez.

xp It's not out there but even the shonky live clips are enough to convince me.

w/ Miguel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvqJd6JBME

THIS IS MORE LIKE IT.

miguelito here to save the day

eh idk it's good but not like noticeably better or anything, still bottom-tier devotion album track level

also discussions of jessie ware's recent output have been veering awfully close, from detractors and boosters alike, to reducing her to a mere muse for her male producers

like if someone came out and said "oops my mistake, it was actually [someone you don't like] who produced this not miguel" nobody would be rushing in to say the day has been saved for jessie's album based on this track lol

best track to me so far is still "tough love" -- could end up being the only track i feel like purchasing

(jk just realized that the song is miguel-cowritten not -produced but larger point still stands re: her male collaborators)

the song is better than most of the non-singles on 'devotion'

it would fit well with that album though

Maybe I'm just too much of a fanboy, but I've more or less loved everything I've heard from the new album, save the bonus track.

I mean, my "THIS IS MORE LIKE IT" indicates otherwise, but yeah

nothing spectacular but every song is good, i'm excited for the album

song breathes hard

bring me some coffee

Miguel is basically Puff Daddy on this song.

eh "Say You Love Me" was boilerplate soul signifiers that made her into a stone bore for the first time

This is more like it.

that's called tuffaluv

wow i've really come around on "tough love" and i liked it to begin with

Only thing so far I've been lukewarm towards is that second song she premiered. Think it was the one featuring Ed Sheeran?

Not listening to new tracks anymore, i'm going to wait for the album.

This is one of the better songs on the album for sure. Yeah, on a par with a good Devotion album track. Monotony is right abt Champagne Kisses tho

the albums is supposedly pretty ballad heavy again

you guys with promos probably can't say much but are you happy with the album on the whole? and i'm guessing there's no imagine it was us pt. ii?

i love "imagine it was us" as much as the next person but for how dope that song was it wasn't really a successful single for her chartwise so i get why she might not have exactly been itching to revive that sound

j0rdan you're a parody of yourself now. must have missed all the successful chart singles off devotion that indicated jessie ware would want to pursue it above all else. why would you want to make an album as amazing as devotion without chart success, after all.

the album is sorta adequate, sort of low key and not exactly overwhelming, though nothing else as terrible as "say you love me". still feeling my way around it but i played it b2b with devotion one day and that did it no favours at all. nothing remotely like "imagine it was us", no. sort of comparable to the ariana album in its flattening out of jessie's personality.

j0rdan you're a parody of yourself now. must have missed all the successful chart singles off /devotion/ that indicated jessie ware would want to pursue it above all else. why would you want to make an album as amazing as /devotion/ without chart success, after all.

the album is sorta adequate, sort of low key and not exactly overwhelming, though nothing else as terrible as "say you love me". still feeling my way around it but i played it b2b with /devotion/ one day and that did it no favours at all. nothing remotely like "imagine it was us", no. sort of comparable to the ariana album in its flattening out of jessie's personality.
--lex pretend

she's a pop singer why wouldn't she take chart success into account? or maybe she just didn't want to do another song like that!

anyway i love that song i'm just speculating as to why she decided not to rehash it on this album and i think one of the reasons may be that it didn't turn out to be that popular!

none of jessie ware's singles have done well in the uk (her best showing is "tough love" which just barely snuck into the top 40). she's one of them 'albums artists' we still occasionally hear about sometimes (devotion went top 5 on the albums chart and is gold-certified) so i would doubt that she's reviewing her singles chart stats much for inspiration on where to go next.

lol she's a pop singer signed to a major label to suggest that her music is made in a context completely removed from "is this going to be popular on a mass level" is absurd

if she herself isn't thinking about it i promise you 15 other people who have input on her music are

zzzz i'm not contesting that, i am saying that the singles charts are not exactly the most relevant metric that she or the '15 other people' are likely to be looking at considering that her previous success was all despite basically all of her singles charting poorly

well i think the presence of "say you love me" sort of refutes your entire point

"we're not concerned about chart success but hey let's see what ed sheeran's can cook up"

I think it's trite to suggest that Ware would have changed the direction of her singles according to the performance of "Imagine It Was Us", given that really it performed about as well as any of her other singles did, most of which have been ballads. "Say You Love Me" is a bit more hackneyed than most of her work and can probably be parsed as an attempt to get that Sam Smith $$, but you can probably substitute any of her singles into an "Well, X song didn't work with the charts so now she's gone Sheeran" argument.

i didn't suggest anything like that, i only made the point because people itt keep harping on "imagine it was us". i was just pointing out that it wasn't a hit or anything so perhaps that is why she didn't return to that well.

i don't see why that's so controversial.

Well, I mean, that could be true, but my point was that none of her songs have been hits so you could make that same argument using any of "Wildest Moments", "Running", "Sweet Talk", etc.

she has 3 top 40 uk singles (more or less), imagine it was us didn't even break the top 100

maybe it has nothing to do with it. i'm not saying it's exactly what happened. i just suggested the possibility & immediately multiple people were like "jessie ware would NEVER think about the charts"