Joss Stone - Introducing Joss Stone
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Music Reviews of Introducing Joss Stone
Music Review: This is a HUGE Step Backwards
Rating: 3 Stars
Restraint. Restraint. Restraint. Will someone help Joss and Fantasia learn to exercise some restraint. On this, Joss's third album, she belts out simple lyrics over thumping baselines. The combination just doesn't work at all. Think Janet Jackson base-but with some screaming thrown in for good measure. I don't get why someone blessed with such a great voice feels the need to scream and yell in an effort to show emotion. Her voice has so much depth and character that she could whisper and send chills down your spine. While I applaud her for trying to revent herself, I am left asking "why?". I understand that she was aiming for a larger audience, but there is only one song on this album that has any of the jazzy-bluesy content of her previous offerings and that is a shame. I would love to have seen her release an album that was Norah-Jones meets Lauryn Hill. She has the soul, range and depth to pull it off. Sorry Joss. I know your only 19 and I hope the cd does well commercially-but I will be posting my copy of this CD for sale as soon as I finish writing this review.Music Review: Abusing a Fine Instrument
Rating: 1 Stars
Once upon a time Joss Stone performed CLEAN, raw and unencumbered and her instrument (voice)came across flawlessly. Check out her REAL introduction in the movie "Standing in The Shadows" where she did a few ditties with some actual musicians.
I don't know if she has gotten steadily WORSE or if she just has a fool for a producer.
It's probably a little bit of both because she still has a voice that can singe the hair out of your ears but she's constantly being drowned out by some stoner on a drum machine, a synthetic symphony orchestra and a group of "shoo-bops" (backup groaners) the size of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
When the primary rock/soul/blues/gospel instrument of her voice that can actually elicit pain is muddied up and stomped on by electronic gee-gaws, robotic voice benders and the musical equivalent of 500 car horns being honked as harmony then it just can't be called music.
And what's even worse is: We knew her "when".
Don't waste your money. Go sing to yourself in the bathroom.
Music Review: She did it Again
Rating: 5 Stars
With the soulful sounds of Betty Wright mixed with the seductress groves of Alicia Keys and the all no holds bar nature of Millie Jackson, Joss Stone stands apart from all other female artist in the R&B, Rock, Soul, and Neo genres. With the launch of her self written Tell Me Bout It and Put You Hands on Me, Stone has emerged into the US music scene with her gloves on. Yet she stands apart from the other her age with a voice so soulful that chill are sent ravaging down an unsuspecting parties spine. As an treat the genius of Lauren Hill and Common, two icons in the US music scene enhances the album on tracks Music and Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now respectively which takes the album to a all new high. Stone poured a lot into this album as she did with her second album Mind, Body, and Soul. 2007 began as a musical disappointment with best artist of the last two decades third album not doing so well, now I must end by saying Stone broke the pattern that was plaguing the R&B industry.Music Review: joss did you get it out of your system?
Rating: 3 Stars
I totally understand a young stars desire to appeal to her own age group AND to pilot her own ship so to speak.
BUT how many great singers are great songwriters as well?
Both the songwriting and producing are weak on this album. I also question the pairing of this great voice with modern hip-hop meets soul meets R&B etc. Which always ends up in a hollow "tribute" to the great music being quoted.
I am afraid if Joss keeps going like this I am sure she will sell lots of albums and end up leaving nothing for posterity apart from a terrific debut album that teased all with what could have been.
here's hoping for a turn around.
p.s. I forgot to mention that am not sorry I bought the album, it is better than the seoncd album IMHO and has some nice singing (though marred by poor arrangments and stylistic choices from the young producer) If you like Joss I think you should buy this, waiting may, in the end, be fruitless.
Music Review: maybe for die-hard fans, but most won't be impressed
Rating: 3 Stars
I was really excited for Miss Stone's new work, since I had been proclaiming the virtues of her tremendous pipes since the Soul Sessions came out. And I was much impressed by her follow-up as well, at one point driving five hours to St. Louis just to see her perform. So as soon as the new cd arrived, I popped it into my computer and listened during work.
The album does feature some very strong tracks, such as Tell Me 'Bout It, Put Your Hands On Me, and maybe even Arms of My Baby. But on the whole, it lacks the variety of styles of the previous album, and it doesn't demonstrate her range and her power as well.
Those who appreciate hip hop will likely appreciate this album somewhat more - the style is prevalent on some tracks, and Common and Lauryn Hill contribute to two of these.
I hate to say it, but if this is "introducing" her doing her own thing, I think I might have preferred her singing other folks' music.