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Jessie J - Anyone Find Her Cringy?
Master Ozzy
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Anyone else find her really cringy and desperate? Bang Bang just comes across as her being despertae to have some U.S success by having Ariana and Nicki on the track. When they performed it at the VMA's, Ariana and Nicky were so much better than her. Even in the video, it's Ariana and Nicky that stand out. I just find Jessie so cringy. I used to love Jessie when she was releasing nmusic on You Tube and I thought her first album was decent, but she's gone so downhill and sold herself short. Her msuic is longer interesting and she is just obsessed with doing runs and vocal gymnastics. When she first released ehr debut album I saw her perform at a nightclub in Brighton. When she performed Price Tag, she made the song last 9 minutes long as she did runs for about 4 minutes after the actual song had ended. It was ridiculous. It's not just her music though, her attitude is also awful. She comes across as so desperate to be up there with the big names, but really she's just not as good as them.
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I think opinions of her changed a lot after her stint on the voice. Most people I know like her music but not her. The whole "women don't get it any better in the music biz compared to men" that she kept preaching did her no justice.
I don't find her cringey though. That word is what i would describe Lily Allen.
Three female artists that all do vocal gymnastics and trills and runs and they don't get criticised half as much.
Jessie has a seriously big voice and loves to sing. She can do what she wants with it as far as I'm concerned. Her fans love her for what she does because 95% of the current crop of pop stars could not stand on a stage and do what she does and sing like she sings.
I honestly believe that she has one of the best voices of our generation and it saddens me that the likes of Cheryl Cole and Rita Ora are her contemporaries. Jessie has more talent in her fingernail then them two girls put together but no one gives a shit and it's bizarre.
She can do no right it would seem
That's not vocal gymnastics. That's delivering very high notes in the style of the songs they sing. Jessie's songs are very different to what those three females do. Those three have done loads of power ballads, which require strong high notes. That's why they don't get criticised because they have never done it.
She has a great voice but hardly a voice of a generation imo.
I think she's a good singer (though very winey, I can no longer listen to a full album in one sitting) and she relies far too much on vocal acrobats to make a song of hers enjoyable these days (live anyway).
I used to really like her, her personality and exposure on The Voice changed that unfortunately.
However Cheryl whatshername is worse.
"I've been quite private in the past about my love life. I've realised I can't experience like everyone else if I hide it. I'm famous, it's never going to stop. I'm happy that I'm able to share my life."
Don't know about cringy, but she's definitely deluded. She's hardly Beyoncé is she?
She said in an interview she wants to focus on the US because nobody in the UK appreciates her voice. Huh?
She had a girlfriend and admitted to being bisexual but as soon as she wanted to take on the US she said it was just a "phase" and insulted her gay fanbase.
Plus this video alone makes her absolutely insufferable -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7r8rxhxdQ8
Throw in the endless Instagram videos of her singing in the studio, the humble-arrogance Tweets ("Usher just text me to say I had a brilliant voice and I was really talented, wow"), the self written song "Who's Laughing Now" ("oh my God babe your voice is like wow" directed to herself), the constant criticism of people who want her autograph and ask for pictures with her and the oversinging and horrific music she releases and she's absolutely annoying as hell.
Oh yes, the changing her mind of the sexuality. Hmm. I wasn't happy about that. It felt offensive and as if it was not really coming from her.
I don't think so.
Cheryl Cole and Rita Ora are her contemporaries because, like them, she releases bland, manufactured and disposable pop music that has mostly been written by other people or her alongside a shed load of other writers. Don't pretend she's something she's not. A lot of the people who bought her first album have lost interest after seeing her for what she is, hopefully the same will happen to Cheryl Cole (like she's going to last without The X-Factor backing her up) and Rita Ora.
I completely gave up on her with the re-issue and her work with David Guetta, and when Alive came out, yet again I was disappointed. I've had the new album on quite a lot at work (as I work in a music store), and I have to admit it is her most cohesive album to date - albeit still a bit 'safe'. I've just completely gone off her as a person, and while I like a lot of the tracks on the new album, I'd much prefer someone else to sing them now lol.
I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. Whilst I don't like Rita, she does have a very good voice. And Cheryl is a much better dancer than Jessie and, to my ears, has a nicer vocal tone.
As long as Jessie keeps releasing songs like 'It's My Party' and 'Who's Laughing Now' you can't really be surprised that she gets placed alongside Cheryl and Rita.
I think everyone is just sick of her because she was so overhyped and overexposed around 2012. She was all over that Olympic closing ceremony, all over TV, all over radio like she was some big superstar but she only had one album and a couple of hits. Someone was too desperate in their attempt to make a big star out of her so she was forced down everyone's throat. It was unbearable.
Also, this review of her first album is great!
This is the funniest post I've ever seen on this forum.
Im the same her music is OK but she comes across as a nice decent woman