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Old 20-07-2013, 19:51
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I've always felt Jessie J. was an underrated artist. She has a great voice that is better then most out right now, but her songs just aren't hitting hard enough to be hits. What do you all think? Will this new "Hero" song from the "Kick-Ass 2" movie soundtrack be her big break?

Jessie J. - "Hero" (snippet)
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Old 20-07-2013, 20:02
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I've always felt Jessie J. was an underrated artist. She has a great voice that is better then most out right now, but her songs just aren't hitting hard enough to be hits. What do you all think? Will this new "Hero" song from the "Kick-Ass 2" movie soundtrack be her big break?

Jessie J. - "Hero" (snippet)
What are you on about? She is one of the most talked about artists from the UK right now!!
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Old 20-07-2013, 20:21
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You're kidding right? I think she's overrated and total crap but one thing she has had for sure is a few hits, that do it like a bruda chav song was huge as well as that other one about money, I forget it's name but it had a rapper in.
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Old 20-07-2013, 20:27
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You know every single from her last album went at minimum silver in the UK and she sold 2.5 million albums. I agree she is underrated when it comes to adding her in conversations with other pop stars, but she isn't shunned away. This song is the tenth time a song of hers has been included in a movie soundtrack and it's one of two just this year. She's moving on up in the world to becoming part of that big pop star conversation. If you look at the people she has worked with n her new album as opposed to her last one, the difference is clear. She's becoming more of a fixture. Not near where she deserves, but it's coming soon. Watch this space.
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Old 20-07-2013, 20:35
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I heard this last week. Good song. I'm hoping she gets huge solely for the want of real vocalists to conquer the charts again. She has more vocal ability than any of her contemporaries at the moment. I can't think of a pop star to surface in the last almost decade with the ability she has. Her music lets her down, though. It's sad. Not Rihanna, Katy, Kesha, etc can hold a candle to her when it comes to sheer vocal ability, but that isn't enough to make it these days.

Lately, anytime American stars are asked which UK artists they want to collaborate with, the first answer has been Jessie J. She has Brandy on her new album and Brandy is very picky with her collaborations so that is good for Jessie.
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Old 20-07-2013, 22:08
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I've always felt Jessie J. was an underrated artist. She has a great voice that is better then most out right now, but her songs just aren't hitting hard enough to be hits. What do you all think? Will this new "Hero" song from the "Kick-Ass 2" movie soundtrack be her big break?

Jessie J. - "Hero" (snippet)
Price tag was her big break, domino was a huge she doesnt need a break out song anymore
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Old 20-07-2013, 22:20
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Old 20-07-2013, 22:32
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What are you on about? She is one of the most talked about artists from the UK right now!!
For the wrong reasons tbh
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Old 20-07-2013, 22:59
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You know every single from her last album went at minimum silver in the UK
Apart from Who's Laughing Now.

And the OP is either foreign or joshing.
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Old 20-07-2013, 23:09
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Apart from Who's Laughing Now.

And the OP is either foreign or joshing.
Who's Laughin' Now was the best song too!
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Old 20-07-2013, 23:25
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What are you on about? She is one of the most talked about artists from the UK right now!!
What I mean is she is not on Adele or Amy Winehous status with her career. And has yet to crossover in the US like the aforementioned artist have.
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Old 20-07-2013, 23:31
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I heard this last week. Good song. I'm hoping she gets huge solely for the want of real vocalists to conquer the charts again. She has more vocal ability than any of her contemporaries at the moment. I can't think of a pop star to surface in the last almost decade with the ability she has.
Vocal ability is more than just the technical stuff though. Jessie J has picked up some truly hideous vocal tics and habits and can't seem to sing a damn melody straight without warbling and hiccuping all over the shop. Witness any of her "Price Tag" performances for evidence! The combination of nasty vocal habits (on EVERY SONG!) and truly shitty music makes her a bad popstar in my opinion. Not as bad as Pixie Lott or the deplorable Rita Ora obviously. But not good.
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Old 20-07-2013, 23:44
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Vocal ability is more than just the technical stuff though. Jessie J has picked up some truly hideous vocal tics and habits and can't seem to sing a damn melody straight without warbling and hiccuping all over the shop. Witness any of her "Price Tag" performances for evidence! The combination of nasty vocal habits (on EVERY SONG!) and truly shitty music makes her a bad popstar in my opinion. Not as bad as Pixie Lott or the deplorable Rita Ora obviously. But not good.
I agree with this post in it's entirity. I was so looking forward to her debut and it was full of bland tosh and the most irritating vocal ticks in the world wors than when Mariah whistles for no reason at all

And anyway OP Domino and Price Tags were bith big here and internationally and put her on the map in places like Australia and Europe and on a smaller scale Canda and the US. But it may give her bigger exposure.
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Old 21-07-2013, 08:57
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Her break-out hit was Do It Like a Dude in the UK, and Price Tag everywhere else.
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Old 21-07-2013, 10:41
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I agree with all of the above. How can anybody refer to Jessie J as underated? Overated more like!

I'm not a fan. She comes across as somebody who thinks she is gods gift to music with a very high opinion of herself. She made me cringe on the voice. I'm baffled by her success to be honest.

Whos Laughing Now is the only single of hers I have any love for. That was pretty decent to be fair.
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Old 21-07-2013, 14:26
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I agree with all of the above. How can anybody refer to Jessie J as underated? Overated more like!

I'm not a fan. She comes across as somebody who thinks she is gods gift to music with a very high opinion of herself. She made me cringe on the voice. I'm baffled by her success to be honest.

Whos Laughing Now is the only single of hers I have any love for. That was pretty decent to be fair.
It's interesting what people project on people they don't know. If she hasn't said she thinks she is gods gift to the world then you have no way of backing that up. That is just what you think she thinks about herself which really doesn't mean anything at all. It holds no weight. In fact she has explicitly said the exact opposite numerous times. She knows she is a good singer, which she is. She would be an idiot not to acknowledge that because why else would she peruse this career path, but that's about it. When JT called her the best singer in the world, she pushed that away and has said a number of times that she knows she isn't. People always act like they know what these celebrities think, but you really don't. I get if it's someone like Kanye who has said quite often that he is the best and yadda yadda, but she never has. People put these negative things on her just because they don't like her without their being any truth whatsoever.

Imo, WLN is by far her worst song.
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Old 21-07-2013, 15:07
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I agree with this post in it's entirity. I was so looking forward to her debut and it was full of bland tosh and the most irritating vocal ticks in the world wors than when Mariah whistles for no reason at all

And anyway OP Domino and Price Tags were bith big here and internationally and put her on the map in places like Australia and Europe and on a smaller scale Canda and the US. But it may give her bigger exposure.
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Old 21-07-2013, 16:49
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Let's hope it fails so this talentless attention seeker can disappear back into obscurity. She really is awful
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Old 21-07-2013, 16:55
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Let's hope it fails so this talentless attention seeker can disappear back into obscurity. She really is awful
Come on now. To deny she has talent is delusion. She may be annoying or whatever to some, but talentless? Get real.
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Old 21-07-2013, 17:06
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Vocal ability is more than just the technical stuff though. Jessie J has picked up some truly hideous vocal tics and habits and can't seem to sing a damn melody straight without warbling and hiccuping all over the shop. Witness any of her "Price Tag" performances for evidence! The combination of nasty vocal habits (on EVERY SONG!) and truly shitty music makes her a bad popstar in my opinion. Not as bad as Pixie Lott or the deplorable Rita Ora obviously. But not good.
That's why I don't listen to Jessie J. That screeching thing she does with her voice puts me right off. When I first heard Price Tag I thought it was Natasha Bedingfield with slightly different music. I think she's vastly overrated. Some people seem to think she's the second coming of music and she's nothing unique or different whatsoever. She's just another rather average popstar.
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Old 21-07-2013, 18:20
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I actually like Jessie J and think she does have talent, but this 'song' is really a case of same old same old. It could be one of any number of artists around over the past fifteen years and the song will very soon disappear into obscurity where it belongs in my opinion.
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Old 21-07-2013, 18:52
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I actually like Jessie J and think she does have talent, but this 'song' is really a case of same old same old. It could be one of any number of artists around over the past fifteen years and the song will very soon disappear into obscurity where it belongs in my opinion.
It's not her single. It was written specifically for the movie like the song she is did for the Mortal Instruments movie this year and the one she sung, but Diane Warren wrote for Silver Linings Playbook last year. None of these are for her album.
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Old 21-07-2013, 19:08
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Come on now. To deny she has talent is delusion. She may be annoying or whatever to some, but talentless? Get real.
I think she can't sing at all and stinks of desperation. What's with that silly screeching sound she does?
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Old 16-08-2013, 05:21
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The lyric video came out this morning

http://youtu.be/25a0dBMwYq0
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Old 16-08-2013, 17:31
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The lyric video came out this morning

http://youtu.be/25a0dBMwYq0
So great to hear the whole thing. Kick ass song. (No pun intended)
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