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We always get a little suspicious when female R&B wunderkinden announce that their latest effort is the first release to feature their "actual" grown-up selves. Often that merely indicates that artists the public grew to know as adolescents are now comfortable wearing next to nothing whilst singing about just how much they like sex. What these starlets often miss is that heavy breathing and lots of skin are rarely any sort of actual window into the world of mature artistry.
And, on Joss Stone's latest, Introducing Joss Stone, she could have easily made that mistake since she does bare a lot of skin, and lets us know just how much she likes to have her man touch that skin. After two previous albums of fairly standard Motown-inspired fare delivered with a voice far beyond her years, Ms. Stone hooked up with Raphael Saadiq and constructed an album that played to her retro-strengths while catching up with new millennial sounds. The results pant, and moan, and strut, but they also shake, and breathe, and live. Whereas other starlets forget to add sensuality to the sex, Ms. Stone makes no such mistake. To be fair, she does occasionally overstep and stumble into caricature, but for the most part she's delivered a solid piece of work that displays a young artist coming into her own.
Chicagoist has two tickets to give away to Joss Stone's May 30 concert at House Of Blues. Enter after the jump for your chance to win and see if she can deliver the goods live.
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Nothing against her personally or musically (I have no idea what she sounds like), but that picture looks like she got a $100 Hot Topic gift certificate for her birthday and she just "went nuts".
Not pictured: Her stuffed "Invader Zim" doll.
thundercougarfalconbird, that is very, very funny. And probably more than a little true. Keep in mind her public persona before this point has been as a blonde sort of granola gal, so the 180 is a little severe visually.
hey, i own a stuffed invader zim doll.
eat that!
@geekgrrl:
Do you also have a pierced nose, magenta streaks in your hair, and a "Devil May Care" attitude towards eye makeup application?
Say what you will about Joss: she does not f$ck for tracks thank you very much!
Again, I have NOTHING against her, her music, and such... nothing. Completely neutral. Except for the picture.
Not Ready, just to head off the possibility of someone taking that the wrong way and the comments skewing into an unwarranted and unpleasant direction, it is worth noting that she was reportedly (and may still be) dating Saadiq during the making of the album.
When she does that thing with her hand when she sings, I sometimes imagine I'm slapping her with her own hand.
I don't know who Saadiq is, but Joss Stone is Hot as Hell!
joss and saadiq were photographed naked together for the inside of her album cover (see here) and that "fucking for tracks" quote was something dallas austin said.
Ladies and gentlemen Rachelle Bowden: either a massive hidden Joss Stone fan unbeknownst to me, or an adept at Google that makes James Koh look like a card library-flippin' amateur!
In other words you are absolutely right on both counts Rachelle!
google!
Her first record as a teenager was decent, if not a little kitsch.
Her attempts at becoming a popstar...blech...
But I like looking at her.