Track Listing:

1 Hot Stuff(Let`s Dance)
2 6 Of 1 Thing
3 Friday Night
4 Awkward
5 Just A Reminder
6 Officially Yours
7 Kinda Girl For Me
8 She`s On Fire
9 Don`t Play With Our Love
10 Top Of The Hill
11 This Is The Girl



It's comeback time for Craig David

Tell me about your new album
I wanted to make a feel-good record, and needed to reassociate myself with what was happening on the street. I felt so out of it. I knew what was being played on mainstream radio stations, I could tell you what was being played in Italy and Spain, but ask what was happening back home and the new styles, I had no idea. So I started buying records again, I started DJing and going to clubs. I know what's going on right now; I've plugged myself back into the matrix.

Is black music in crisis?
No, not really. Do they ever say white music is in crisis? There is so much great black music going on, so much great stuff here in the UK. There has always been that thing where one minute it's guitar music, then it swings to hip-hop, the next minute garage is flying through the charts. Just because you are hearing a little bit more of one thing doesn't mean the people have changed. It's not like everyone has been brainwashed and all you can listen to is rock

Let's talk about Bo' Selecta! and Avid Merrion, the comedian who sent you up so mercilessly on the show.
That whole Bo' Selecta! thing was damaging. I played along with it, I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me. It frustrated me beyond belief because I was there, I've got this guy who is milking one of my songs, has me as a caricature, is ripping the [censored] out of me, a one-trick pony, just hammering it, to the point when I was like, "This is [censored] now." I met him backstage - he came up and said he wanted to apologise "because I know the effect it has". I had it out with him. I said, "You're talking absolute [censored]. You're milking the whole thing, and you're coming up to me saying you don't want it to have an effect - then you're doing more shows. You're talking out of your arse, and if you were a real comedian you'd have moved on to something else. What have you done except poke fun at people at their expense without any regard for the effect it has?"

Did it haunt you?
When you've got people shouting at you in the street, people in my face telling me this and that about little sketches from the show - it was like me against the world. What was really frustrating, with hindsight, was that the way I was writing the songs was affected by it. I felt that was under scrutiny. I was looking at the way I dress, but it was just me being me ... It puts you in all kinds of places, you don't really know where to turn.

Do you think it was racist?
He had sketches that definitely tipped the politically correct scale. I was like, "I don't know what angle you're coming from, racist or not, all I know is I'm feeling the brunt of this while you're having the last laugh, and, to be honest, this is not the way it goes down, especially when it affects my music." People were saying, "I like the songs - but Craig David? I'm not sure", laugh and joke, put on a northern accent ... It stopped people taking me seriously

The new look, the short hair - what's that about?
I just felt like a change.

Are you shedding an image, trying to look less like the Bo' Selecta! caricature?
Not consciously. People still recognise me - it's just Craig David with his hair short

What was your upbringing like?
I grew up in Southampton; my mum was a shop assistant, my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight. My grandmother and my mother raised me but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.

The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad. There was a moment when crack was going on a bit lively around my way, but it wasn't like it was affecting me. I just saw girls running into phone boxes at mad times of night and calling up; you knew they weren't calling for a pizza. I was able to keep out of trouble. My dad was the main reason. I knew if I got caught I would fly off the walls like I'd never flown before.

You were a 19-year-old bedroom DJ who became famous overnight. How did the industry change you?
lot of things aren't what I thought they'd be. You can't help but find yourself constrained when you are in the music industry. When you are outside of it, say what you say, do what you want to do, it's just the way you live. But you make a record? After that you wise up to things you didn't even know about before. Simple, tiny things. Sometimes I wish that I was naive like I was before, because I could just roll with things

· Craig David's new album, Trust Me, is out now on Warner.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 15, 2007
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Not really feeling this video or the song, the next single is WAAAAAY better:

This week's new albums
By Gavin Martin 09/11/2007

Craig David - Trust Me

Craig David’s fourth album Trust Me, comes eight years after the Southampton soul star first burst on the scene with his breakthrough smash Rewind.

Since then, David has courted international stardom, sold 13 million albums and has had 10 Top 10 British hits. He has also had his reputation undercut by Avid Merrion’s Bo’ Selecta! parody.

The comedian’s work was funny enough, but not something that should ruin the career of one of the classiest homegrown chart regulars.

The aptly named Trust Me, recorded in London and Havana, and hailed as the album where 26-year-old Craig seizes the moment and takes control of his own career, is certainly no joke.

This is the record that recaptures what a fresh, flexible and resourceful performer Craig is, capable of running the gamut from streetwise beats and rapping duels (This Is The Girl, She’s On Fire) to delivering a soulful duet with 17-year-old newcomer Rita Oru (Awkward).

A class act steeped in soul, disco and dance influences, Craig’s natural ebullience persuaded David Bowie to permit use of his Let’s Dance hit on the opening Hot Stuff.

There – and in the colourfully energetic workouts that follow – Craig is as frisky as a spring lamb. His catchy tunes are played with zip and aplomb, characterised by clever harmonies and his quick-on-the-draw tongue-tying raps. The sweet endearments of Just A Reminder, edged along with a humming organ and twinkling piano, show his strength as a balladeer and, although the Cuban influences are never pushed too hard, Don’t Play With Our Love thrives on the island’s horn charts and jazzy keyboards.

So banish all thoughts that Craig was a pushover, a jumper-wearing clown whose time in the spotlight was called to an end by a TV funnyman. Trust Me shows he is much more resilient, smarter, smoother and talented than that. Trust Me…

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I can't wait until Amazon takes that high ass preorder import price down a little then I'll buy it...

It debuted at #18 and in its second week, it's now #42