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Old 14-12-2009, 16:56
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R&B is really boring these days. She's a breath of fresh air.. oh well
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Old 14-12-2009, 17:09
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She's quite big in America is she not? I like her song Bust Your Windows.

She has had zero marketing in UK
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Old 14-12-2009, 17:12
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I love Jazmine Sullivan. She is amazing

She deserves more love and success.
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Old 15-12-2009, 12:32
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She's got a few good songs but her album isn't very consistent. Dream Big and Bust Your Windows could be huge though.
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Old 15-12-2009, 13:02
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she's been on a diet. you should checkout her old videos, she's was much bigger when she was younger
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Old 15-12-2009, 13:07
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she's the girl who sang that Daft Punk-sampling 'Dream Big' song isn't she? i thought that song was alright but i've not heard anything else from her. like someone else said, it's probably lack of marketing.
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Old 15-12-2009, 13:12
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Because she's not very good.
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Old 15-12-2009, 13:27
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Because she's not very good.
compared to other R&B artists she is.
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Old 15-12-2009, 14:02
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compared to other R&B artists she is.
I agree! She has an extra something that gives her an edge. I love Call Me Guilty.
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Old 15-12-2009, 14:11
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Her music isn't radio friendly, that's why.

Her album was brilliant, however. "Lions, Tigers and Bears" is fantastic.
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Old 15-12-2009, 14:15
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"Lions Tigers and Bears" is better than anything Leona et al have ever done.. so much emotion, blew me away when I first heard that and I'm not big on R&B at the moment.
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Old 15-12-2009, 15:14
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It's not the case Jazmine is very good. Her album is amazing. She reminds me of Alicia Keys but with an edge.

I always find the few actual good artists are the ones who don't often see huge success
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Old 15-12-2009, 15:16
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I never heard of her until the other day. I love Bust Your Windows
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Old 15-12-2009, 15:38
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She is brilliant and 'Bust Your Windows' and 'Lions, Tigers And Bears' are two of this year's best tracks.

And, way, WAY, WAY better than all the auto-tuned rubbish flooding out of the US and all the tragic 'UK R&B' (which has about as much to do with R&B as Rage Against The Machine).

Shame on her record company for not promoting her - it's a disgrace!
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Old 15-12-2009, 15:39
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her album was the best of last year as far as i'm concerned, just beating taylor swift by a tiny margin

the reason she isn't as successful is simply because she isn't a skinny hot looking chick like rihanna that can make sexy videos and be a poster babe for teenagers

give her some time like mary j blige and she'll maybe make it bigger
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Old 15-12-2009, 15:59
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Her music isn't radio friendly, that's why.

Her album was brilliant, however. "Lions, Tigers and Bears" is fantastic.
And that's all there is to it.
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Old 15-12-2009, 16:02
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She sampled Daft Punk on her tune that was on Capital quite a lot, some things are sacred.
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Old 15-12-2009, 17:58
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And that's all there is to it.
Because it doesn't sound like autotuned US R&B conveyor belt rubbish?

I disagree. I first heard her on Trevor Nelson's Radio 2 show and she sounded mighty fine on the radio to me ...
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Old 15-12-2009, 17:59
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She sampled Daft Punk on her tune that was on Capital quite a lot, some things are sacred.
Given that Daft Punk have sampled their way through just about everything, there is a certain irony in this ...
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Old 15-12-2009, 20:24
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Because it doesn't sound like autotuned US R&B conveyor belt rubbish?

I disagree. I first heard her on Trevor Nelson's Radio 2 show and she sounded mighty fine on the radio to me ...
You can be the best singer in the world but if you don't have the material to match your voice you won't get very far. The material she has now is not going to interest the masses but maybe attracting the masses is not what she is after ?
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Old 15-12-2009, 22:41
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You can be the best singer in the world but if you don't have the material to match your voice you won't get very far. The material she has now is not going to interest the masses but maybe attracting the masses is not what she is after ?
But she does have the material to match her voice.

What she doesn't have is any corporate muscle behind her because she doesn't 'fit in' to any current stereotype.

Which is strange because I thought (naively, obviously) that the music industry might be interested in promoting artists who might be distinctive and original ...
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Old 16-12-2009, 01:57
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I discovered her album a while ago and I loved it, it's sad she doesn't get anyone recognition in the UK.
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Old 16-12-2009, 14:24
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They were giving away My Foolish Heart a while ago on iTunes.
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Old 16-12-2009, 15:03
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She'll make a small dent in the i Tunes chart sometime between mid January and the beginning of Feb depending on the air date as there's a great version of "Bust your windows" in the third episode of "Glee".
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Old 16-12-2009, 18:28
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Her music doesn't have a hot beat and robot voices and all that jazz.

I don't think her intention is to be one of those girls who dances in hardly nothing in the music videos over a catchy song that people will forget in ten years time.
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