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Jamelia - "No More" great song from a few years ago. Why did it flop? |
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Jamelia - "No More" great song from a few years ago. Why did it flop?
I remember it being played a lot on radio! Yet it only made #43 in the end apparently
Was it due to the backlash of Jamelia using the "Golden Brown" sample on her song? I personally thought it worked well.
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Jamelia has never sold as well as her talent deserved IMO. I think the failure of No More was to do with the fact she already used a famous sample on her previous single Beware Of The Dog (it used Personal Jesus) so I think she came across a bit lazy releasing No More as her next single which had a sample from Golden Brown.
I do miss Jamelia. I think she'd be perfect as a judge on X Factor. |
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TBH the album in itself wasn't briliant and she did a pixie lott a good first album and a mediocre follow up and no more was okay but it was hardly pops greatest moment.
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Jamelia had 3 albums. Drama was her debut which was good, but hardly great outside of the singles. Thank You was much better.
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Jamelia had 3 albums. Drama was her debut which was good, but hardly great outside of the singles. Thank You was much better.
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TBH the album in itself wasn't briliant and she did a pixie lott a good first album and a mediocre follow up and no more was okay but it was hardly pops greatest moment.
Its a shame really. I think Walk With Me was fantastic. And Something About You - Beware Of The Dog - No More was such a perfect singles run. |
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Due to lack of popularity at that time.Put simply, people weren't checking for her.The lack of momentum was reflected in the embarassing album sales and she only got 2 hit singles out of the album because of the radio play she was getting.However, you just can't have 3 successful singles out of a flop album...it's impossible.Any 3rd release at that time would be doomed, so it's not that much about the song imo
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Too formulaic. As someone else has already mentioned, after Beware of the Dog it looked like she was using samples rather too much. I think they took her too far from her R&B roots and tried to put her in the mainstream. I always prefered her more risky stuff like 'Bout, Cutie, Hustle and Do Me Right.
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Hate to say it, but to me she's like Leona Lewis.
Great voice but zero personality. |
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Jamelia has never sold as well as her talent deserved IMO. I think the failure of No More was to do with the fact she already used a famous sample on her previous single Beware Of The Dog (it used Personal Jesus) so I think she came across a bit lazy releasing No More as her next single which had a sample from Golden Brown.
I do miss Jamelia. I think she'd be perfect as a judge on X Factor. That being said, I think Jamelia's attitude, always playing it safe, being critical of artists superior or who came before her and unwed mother status with two different baby daddies played a huge part in her flops. |
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Hate to say it, but to me she's like Leona Lewis.
Great voice but zero personality. |
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I remember this flopping, and I think a big part was her image change at the time.
she went from being a middle of the road 'daytime TV and Radio friendly' artist on the likes of 'Stop' and 'Superstar'...to this harsher image with this album. I remember her going on This Morning or Paul O'Grady dressed like a hooker really...which will have put off a lot of the mainstream audience. as the above has already said, she also took to slagging off everyone left right and centre, which doesn't go down well with the public. |
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I LOVE Beware of the Dog - that song should've been huge....the album is quite good in retrospect. Love Something About You, Ain't A Love, and the Are You Being Served sampling Window Shopping
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Something About You was just lovely. It had a really lush video too.
I just want Jamelia to release any old song soon so she can have the very impressive achievement of a music career spanning three decades. |
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It was just a weak single choice, there is a certain remix that would have made a much better single... i think it's called the 3am remix or something like that, it's on iTunes so check it out
![]() There were other songs on the album that would have made better singles: . Got It So Good - SO radio friendly. . Ain't A Love - Catchy, again... radio friendly. . And as I just said... the remix of No More. |
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I remember this flopping, and I think a big part was her image change at the time.
she went from being a middle of the road 'daytime TV and Radio friendly' artist on the likes of 'Stop' and 'Superstar'...to this harsher image with this album. I remember her going on This Morning or Paul O'Grady dressed like a hooker really...which will have put off a lot of the mainstream audience. as the above has already said, she also took to slagging off everyone left right and centre, which doesn't go down well with the public. |
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Was it due to the backlash of Jamelia using the "Golden Brown" sample on her song? I personally thought it worked well.


