Listening to Chi Lite cover Dont know why shes not more popular than she is

JoeBala said:

Joss Stone Live Streaming This Wed. From NYC.

https://new.livestream.co...ivefromNYC

An event I won't be missing.

Thanks for sharing the news!

She did a free outside show last year summer for Tommy Hilfigier. It was a charity thing. She was on for about 45 min. She still has it. I've only seen her live once in Roseland Ballroom in NY for her second CD 2004-05 i think and she turned it out. If you haven't seen the MSN show from 5 years ago on youtube check it out. I hope Fiona does something here too.

She was never really a superstar because she was scrutinzed by the UK media her superstardom fell when she lost support from her UK fans. She was on the Brit Awards back in 2007 and she spoke in an American accent and it turned a lot of people off she was in the polls as the worst Brit for the last 2 years. Her popularity in the UK has never been the same after that.

Another reason was that Amy Winehouse broke out in America with her Back To Black album and Joss's thrid album came out and Amy's album blew it out of the water. Amy's album was catchy, fresh and her voice was very unique she was another poster child of the young white girl with black sounding voice where Joss was the original prototype in the early 2000's.

Another reason i just her approach her throwout was to unauthentic after Mind, Body and Soul album she was trying hard to be this deep down gritty soul sister even though she is a white middle class girl from England. What made Adele and Winehouse so appealing was their voices were natural and they were not trying hard to sound like somebody else which has been Joss's problem.Her sound is too manufacutred and she tries to hard to sound like Millie Jackson.

What has helped Joss is that she surrounded herself with the right people and the right producers to make her voice blend with the music. I remember when she first started and she was working with a lot of old school musicians who never sold out to contemporary music.

Jennifer Hudson can sing her ass off but she is not surrounded by the right people to make her voice that special when she went solo. She does not need electronic 1,2,3 beats when all she needs is a guitar, drums, horn section etc to make he voice great. Dreamgirls was the best of Jennifer Hudson as a singer.

neoretro7 said:

She was never really a superstar because she was scrutinzed by the UK media her superstardom fell when she lost support from her UK fans. She was on the Brit Awards back in 2007 and she spoke in an American accent and it turned a lot of people off she was in the polls as the worst Brit for the last 2 years. Her popularity in the UK has never been the same after that.

Another reason was that Amy Winehouse broke out in America with her Back To Black album and Joss's thrid album came out and Amy's album blew it out of the water. Amy's album was catchy, fresh and her voice was very unique she was another poster child of the young white girl with black sounding voice where Joss was the original prototype in the early 2000's.

Another reason i just her approach her throwout was to unauthentic after Mind, Body and Soul album she was trying hard to be this deep down gritty soul sister even though she is a white middle class girl from England. What made Adele and Winehouse so appealing was their voices were natural and they were not trying hard to sound like somebody else which has been Joss's problem.Her sound is too manufacutred and she tries to hard to sound like Millie Jackson.

What has helped Joss is that she surrounded herself with the right people and the right producers to make her voice blend with the music. I remember when she first started and she was working with a lot of old school musicians who never sold out to contemporary music.

Jennifer Hudson can sing her ass off but she is not surrounded by the right people to make her voice that special when she went solo. She does not need electronic 1,2,3 beats when all she needs is a guitar, drums, horn section etc to make he voice great. Dreamgirls was the best of Jennifer Hudson as a singer.

I agree with your thoughts about Jennifer Hudson: she's a terrific singer with unremarkable material.I have yet to hear an amazing song by her....a song that would make her the superstar that she deserves to be.

As for Joss Stone....I feel that maybe she just needs a more aggressive management team,or a new record deal with a supportive label.

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Dear Prince.Org:

When her album comes out, I'd like for someone to remind me not

to get it.

Thank you,

Chuck

Why does a cute girl like that have to screetch like a bird under a jackhammer.

neoretro7 said:

Jennifer Hudson can sing her ass off but she is not surrounded by the right people to make her voice that special when she went solo. She does not need electronic 1,2,3 beats when all she needs is a guitar, drums, horn section etc to make he voice great. Dreamgirls was the best of Jennifer Hudson as a singer.

Thank you!

And don't even get me started on those Weight Watchers commercials. I started wishing she'd just get fat again already, so I wouldn't have to hear that awful song anymore.

The Soul Sessions Volume 2 track list:

1. ''I Got The...''
2. ''(For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People''
3. ''While You're Out Looking for Sugar''
4. ''Sideway Shuffle''
5. '' Don't Want To Be with Nobody But You''
6. ''Teardrops''
7. ''Stoned Out Of My Mind''
8. ''The Love We Had (Stays On My Mind)''
9. ''The High Road''
10. ''Pillow Talk''
11. ''Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye''

While You're Out Looking for Sugar

I have Honey Cone's album with this song.

Identity said:

The first offering from the new album is a cover of The Chi-Lites' 1971 smash "For God's Sake...'' Listen up.

I'm a fan but this track is WACK!

Joss can sing. She hasn't enjoyed consistent awesome albums but I don't get all the hate that goes her way.

Identity said:

The Soul Sessions Volume 2 track list:

1. ''I Got The...''
2. ''(For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People''
3. ''While You're Out Looking for Sugar''
4. ''Sideway Shuffle''
5. '' Don't Want To Be with Nobody But You''
6. ''Teardrops''
7. ''Stoned Out Of My Mind''
8. ''The Love We Had (Stays On My Mind)''
9. ''The High Road''
10. ''Pillow Talk''
11. ''Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye''

I'll have to check this out.So far,it seems like a promising project.

johnart said:

Joss can sing. She hasn't enjoyed consistent awesome albums but I don't get all the hate that goes her way.

Cause she is white singing black music.

JoeBala said:

Joss Stone Live Streaming This Wed. From NYC.

https://new.livestream.co...ivefromNYC

REMINDER Live Streaming Show Starts in about 1 hr.

Raphael Saadiq & Joss Stone - Just One Kiss From You

Very nice, sounds like some Smokey Robinson!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...DyOcNS9lmE

mjscarousal said:

Listening to Chi Lite cover Dont know why shes not more popular than she is

The same reasons why Drake and Nikki Minaj are so popular.

Man that show was good, Good song selection. I'm digging it. Getting the CD. Strong stuff band and vocals were great. Loved the 2nd half better. You can still see it. I think it will be online till tommorow.

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JoeBala said:

Fantastic gig!

It's available for playback.

Link

The full show has been uploaded to Youtube.

Thanks ID too bad the streaming was not that clear. You'd think with todays technology it would be in HD. I'm sure the cost would have been to much to stream HD?

JoeBala said:

johnart said:

Joss can sing. She hasn't enjoyed consistent awesome albums but I don't get all the hate that goes her way.

Cause she is white singing black music.

SHUT YO MOUTH!

Nice NYC show that was posted. Just got done watching.

Listen as Joss sings an unplugged version of ''While You're Out Looking For Sugar''.

Identity said:

The first offering from the new album is a cover of The Chi-Lites' 1971 smash "For God's Sake...'' Listen up.

Yes. pretty much back to what she does best. i may even buy this album with actual money.

Joss Stone Interview

July 2012

Link

At the age of 25, Joss Stone is celebrating nearly ten years in the music industry.

To celebrate, the singer will release a direct sequel to her multi-million-selling debut The Soul Sessions, which kick-started a globally successful career back in 2003.

We caught up with Joss to chat about the new record and why she doesn't crave mainstream achievement in her home country anymore.

Congratulations on your new album The Soul Sessions 2 - it must feel weird celebrating ten years in the industry at such a young age.

"I guess it is weird when you look at it on paper, but I've never done anything else, so for me it's not weird. I'd rather have started at that point than carrying on going to school and wasting my time, so I guess I didn't waste my years."

Did you choose which tracks you wanted to cover?

"I actually picked from a massive list of songs that Steve Greenberg had chosen. He's the man with the songs, he's got some amazing songs under his belt. He knows all the obscure tracks that you just wouldn't think of. So I just listened to them all and in the end just chose the ones that I liked best."

What made you decide those specific tracks?

"Well I genuinely liked the songs and listened to them in my car the couple of weeks leading up to it. I just kind of woke up in the morning and went to the studio, and said, 'Which one shall we do?' Then we'd play it and say, 'Nah, we won't do that one, what about this one?'"

You're clearly influenced by older music, but are you ever inspired by modern artists?

"Yeah, sometimes. Maybe not the charts, but I do listen to new music, if it's good. If it's good it finds me, because someone will go, 'This is f**king good, listen to it'. I don't have to pain myself by listening to the radio, I don't have to trawl through all that s**t, someone else will do that! And then they'll go, 'Joss I was listening to the radio and then this song came up'. And I'm like, 'Oh thanks'. So my ears aren't suffering and I only hear nice things."

What nice things have you been listening to in the past year?

"I love Birdie, I think she is just beautiful, I think she is really a special person. Something is going to be beautiful with that girl, I mean, it already is but, something is going on there and I'm just excited about what she's going to become. She's, you know, a baby as I was, and she sounds lovely and that song 'Skinny Love' that she sings, she just means it. Ah, it's just so sweet. I don't know, who else is new? Adele is gorgeous obviously, but that's not new anymore is it?"

Not really, but she's still dominating the charts...

"She's just rocking it man. So that's lovely to hear - English girls doing their thing. Rumer, f**king cool. It's just nice, it's nice to be living in a place, and coming from a place that produces that much soul."

Over the past few years your career has had more of a focus in the US than the UK. Are you craving to have another big hit in the UK?

"No, you know what? I think I'd rather not, because I really like living here and I think that I'd rather just live here. It's such a strange thing because I don't think people even take me seriously when I say that. Like, why would I want to work in my house? I live here, it's my home, I couldn't think of anything worse. Really man, like it sucks.

"It's nice to have people like your music, absolutely. It's such a complement and it's a really heart-warming thing when someone says, 'Oh I love this song', and they really have listened to it and they know about the instruments and everything. That's really lovely, and nice to have in your country as well, but to have this massive blow-up thing, anywhere, is a quite stressful thing. But in your own country? I don't know if that's a good idea. You can't have a normal life then, you basically say goodbye to your happiness. I don't think that's positive or healthy."

So what happens if The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 is a big hit in the UK?

"I don't know what will happen. F**king hell, I actually worry about that. Yeah, and that would be great like Warner and everyone, every f**king man and his dog is like, 'Yeah let's make it the biggest thing in the world'. And I'm like, 'Really, I don't know if that's such a good idea, let's go somewhere else'.

"I mean there's a whole world out there. Everyone needs music and I believe that people in England that love my music, they are loyal fans. If they love it they'll find it anyway. It's lovely to be able to sing on these TV shows. I will do some, because I want people to know that it exists. But I don't want it to go too far, because it's scary."

Well I suppose it's a weird profession to be in because you want to be successful with your music but at the same time you want to retain some sort of...

"You want a life. And just be able to chat to someone in the pub, that you might not have met before and have a nice conversation with them, without them going, 'Oh my God, are you that girl?'"

Last year we saw you team up with Mick Jagger for SuperHeavy - how did you find that whole experience?

"That was pretty mad actually. You know Mick Jagger's a legend, but he's actually just a really lovely guy. So that was a nice thing. I don't feel nervous around him or anything because he doesn't deliberately do that to you. I think that only happens when people act that way. And obviously [there's a] massive amount of respect for the man, he's amazing, he's Mick Jagger. But he's just a warm, lovely, friendly, open, chatty guy. So yeah, it's pretty cool."

Obviously having so much British talent in one group, it would be good for the Olympics. Have they not spoken to you at all?

"No, I think that's it now, it was literally a creative project and it's gone. There is no touring for us, we made an album, we made a video, we just kind of gelled. It's a shame really."

Would you ever consider a role on a singing competition like The Voice?
"I am interested in nurturing young talent and stuff, but not on The Voice. I don't know how much of that is about the voice. I think a lot of it is, more than the other shows, but not enough for me. I think it would need to be more than that. I would like to do a show on the radio, that would be a really good show."

That really would be just about the voice.

"It really is the voice, anything that is about a visual, anything that means you have to sit in a chair for two and a half hours having your make-up done is not about the voice. And I'm not trying to diss the show, because I think it's a really good show and it's much better than The X Factor or anything like that, and it's moving in the right direction and they've got better singers this time."

Do you have any plans to tour Soul Sessions Vol. 2?

"Yeah, I'm going to play in Europe, around the place. I think I'm going to do 10 or 12 gigs around the place in Europe. Then I'll do the same in America and then probably the same amount of gigs in South America. And then I'll be done. Then I'll make another record."

That's your year sorted then.

"That's pretty much my year booked, yeah. Next year I'm going to do a gig in every country in the world. I think there's something like 196. It would take two years to do."

Has anyone ever done that before?
"No."

So you want to be the first?

"Yeah. I'm going to be the first one to do it. And probably the last because I think no-one else can be bothered."

I've seen Lady GaGa's list of tour dates - I'm sure she'd give you a run for your money.

"Yeah, she's got a lot of dates, she's a hard-working woman that girl. (Laughs) So that will be fun, it's just an ambition of mine. I don't know how good it is financially to do. It's definitely not. And promo-wise, it's just not good. But to achieve something like that would just be amazing. Just because, why not? And then I'd come home and chill out. They'll be like, 'Get back to work', and I'll be like, 'No, done it all now'."

Joss Stone's The Soul Session Vol. 2 will be released in the UK on July 16 and the US on July 31.

^^Nice interview.

johnart said:

Joss can sing. She hasn't enjoyed consistent awesome albums but I don't get all the hate that goes her way.

Me neither. This chick is the real deal. The public has been brain-washed by all of this electronic euro dance shit or whatever the fuck they call it. I call it sheer and utter garbage!

Joss is singing authentic, down-home R&B music, something most contemporary black performers won't touch with a 10 foot pole! That rubbish that you hear from Usher, Rhianna and Beyonce is not R&B in any way, shape or form.

Oh. Looks like she's been dropped by her label. Well. At least she has an established international fan base. She should do fine. Joss is Joss, its to my understanding shes one of the best selling female artist in the Uk. And its odd to hear people always place value on sales and fame when clearly this is supposed to be about people who like great authentic music? Naturally they are not going to be mega rich and naturally they will probably have to tour til their dead its the nature of the art, I thought we knew that.

kitbradley said:

johnart said:

Joss can sing. She hasn't enjoyed consistent awesome albums but I don't get all the hate that goes her way.

Me neither. This chick is the real deal. The public has been brain-washed by all of this electronic euro dance shit or whatever the fuck they call it. I call it sheer and utter garbage!

Joss is singing authentic, down-home R&B music, something most contemporary black performers won't touch with a 10 foot pole! That rubbish that you hear from Usher, Rhianna and Beyonce is not R&B in any way, shape or form.