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

She is a fan of Manchester United F.C.[47] She endorsed Jess Phillips as leader in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.[48]

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Save A Kiss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-0O5R3mZ0

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf6OVKJDpUC/

here we go! "free yourself" out next week

I hope this is the Stuart Price of Jacques Lu Cont remixes and big disco moments, not the Stuart Price of Take That album productions

the shitty recording of "free yourself" from glastonbury was great so i don't think there's anything to worry about

it's on Spotify, great song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-ls1W7Sio

fantastic

finally the track to play b2b with "break my soul"

Love this. There's something very Girls Aloud about the verses.

nice, gospel disco vibes

"save a kiss" is such a Robyn track (or could be the other way around)

I think I’ve played it approx 20 times today and I’ve finished each listen completely breathless - it’s too soon to call it her best track, but it definitely feels like her biggest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUhWaO94XcQ

Also the Glastonbury performance of it is now on Youtube which may be of interest to anyone else like me who’d been living off the scraps of the bootleg snippets for the past month

also the new album is coming Q1 2023 which I am guessing is because of vinyl production delays (on BBC Radio 1 yesterday she said the record was done)

Good to see this is one major label release that has an old-school extended mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWFh0xADOE

that's a custom edit by the youtube channel that posted it, not from the label (tho other singles of hers have had official extended mixes so i can't see why this one wouldn't)

this is definitely not her best track for me, tho it's good

Ah, I appear to be easily fooled :) Maybe another one will appear.

“ nice, gospel disco vibes”

Yep, reminds me of The Joubert Singers’ “Stand on the Word”.

terrence parker deserves a mention i feel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z11Nc6vKJDc

who i always get mixed up with spencer parker oops

It reminds me a bit of Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EaYwmv7hcA

Jessie Ware
That! Feels Good!
The new album
Fancy and camp on whole new level pic.twitter.com/BGcWn3h2Dk

— BlackoutZone (@blackoutzoned) January 29, 2023

album title is reportedly that! feels good!

single "pearls" reportedly out on feb 9

excellent title

been playing What's Your Pleasure? again recently, still a perfect record

yes

the exclamation points are very shania

lol that was my first thought too

I couldn’t help but think of Smokey singing, but that’s just me, I guess

That! Feels GASMS!

lfgggggg

Pearls. Coming Thursday. https://t.co/SutsVM8cDN pic.twitter.com/qAAmJ1jUgM

— Jessie Ware (@JessieWare) February 7, 2023

excited for this! was a latecomer to what's your pleasure, but it keeps on keeps on giving.

i haven't loved any of the remixes, but the og "free yourself" is an absolute beauty. i was hooked as soon as the piano kicked it off, which brought immediately to mind the opening countrypolitan piano from "9 to 5." then whooooosh! what a jam.

yeah, "free yourself" is a jam. agree on the remixes. the woolford one is a snooze. sorry to do "hi i dj" anecdotes, but i played it a lot this summer to mixed, overall tepid reactions, then brought it back out a few weeks ago and everyone seemed to know & love it. probably just the right people at the right time.

there's such an immense storm of orchestra and blown out gospel house underlying "free yourself". i used to kind of ? at the breakdown but now i love its impressionistic meltdown feel.

anticipating!

"Free Yourself" is samazing.

yeah on the breakdown it's like another tune snuck in the back and took over the stage for a bit, but it works.

there's a 1 minute snippet of "pearls" doing the rounds and it sounds absolutely wonderful. can't wait for this record

I don’t think y’all are ready for the food Jessie Ware’s been cooking..
09.02 pic.twitter.com/oV8gxB0Sr0

— BlackoutZone (@blackoutzoned) February 7, 2023

here's the snippet, sounds great

exquisite

tracklist:

That! Feels Good!
Free Yourself
Pearls
Hello Love
Begin Again
Beautiful People
Freak Me Now
Shake the Bottle
Lightning
These Lips

Dig Pearls sounds very boogie.

It’s not really my style and I was more into the less flashy style of WYP? but it’s good.

I loved the clip yesterday but I’m not really connecting w the full song for whatever reason

Stoked for this, though I’ll wait for the deluxe edition to buy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvB-iPmmIQw

it's good but i don't quite expect the album to live up to what's your pleasure, seems to be going for a bolder, brighter sound

I saw someone on reddit I think describe it as What’s Your Pleasure? with glitter which sort of makes sense to me.

It's not a big deal if one of her tracks is okay so long as it fits the gestalt. I had the same trouble with a couple tracks on WYP, my album of the year.

There's just enough of Wham!'s "Everything She Wants" in "Pearls" to tickle my ear, but probably not enough to have to share the songwriting credit.

Because I have standards for my pop music, I will say this chorus is really bad.

is it just me or is the production on this a lot more muted than on the clip posted earlier? I kinda preferred the sound on the clip :/

(n/b might be a streaming quality issue, spotify version seems closer to the clip than the youtube one, though still not the same)

This is not great but I'm not mad at it. Not on the same level as anything on WYP? for sure.

idk i love this. sounds great on a loud system. the high bit on the chorus is luxurious camp like faux fur like the press photo, obvious is a good look for her, she's going for the queers, 'shake it till the pearls fall off' is a catchier, more delicious line than anything on wyp afaict.