I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown. I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood.
" I really was, I had no idea what it was. On her influences for the album, JoJo has listed many celebrities and during one interview, she stated: Many have noted that the album is influenced mainly by R&B tracks. They go through things and that is really what it is about." I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. So when I sing, "Leave (Get Out)," I have been through that. I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. I am not the person who sings something that I have no reference point to. The music found on JoJo's debut album is primarily pop and R&B music.ĭuring an interview about the album's composition, JoJo stated:
JoJo had recording sessions with producers such as Soulshock & Karlin and the Underdogs.
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While Jojo may not be taking a career road less traveled, The High Road does make time for some surprising and memorable pit stops along the way.After competing on the TV show "America's Most Talented Kids," JoJo was contacted by record producer Vincent Herbert, who asked her to audition for Blackground Records.ĭuring her audition for the founder of Blackground Records, Barry Hankerson, he told JoJo that the spirit of his niece (late R&B singer Aaliyah) brought her to him and she was signed to the record label at the age of 12. Similarly, "Good Ol'" is the best summer anthem ever to see release in the fall, and "'Comin' for You" smartly borrows some of Kelly Clarkson's rock energy.
Cuts such as the gorgeous and dreamy "Like That" and "Anything," with its unexpectedly hip sampling of Toto's "Africa," make for gleefully enjoyable guilty pleasures. Coming off as a kind of urbanized Jennifer Aniston with the chops of Beyoncé, Jojo is an assured and likeable performer who can somehow embody the yin-yang persona of a suburban cheerleader slinging hip-hop attitude, as she does in the video for the ridiculously overwrought and utterly addictive lead-off single, "Too Little Too Late." It also helps that she's matured just enough so that her somewhat sexy persona makes a bit more sense now than it did in 2004, and she easily sells the cheeky and raw dance-funk of such tracks as "This Time" and "The Way You Do Me." However, it's the blissfully melodic ballads and mid-tempo anthems that make the biggest impression here. These are well-written, catchy pop songs with a healthy dose of hip-hop rhythm that serve as solid launching pads for Jojo's superb vocal abilities. What may be a surprise is that it is really, really good. Featuring production and songs by such in demand hitmakers as Swizz Beatz, Soulshock, and Scott Storch - the man who made Paris Hilton sound good - it should come as little surprise that The High Road is a commercially oriented, radio-friendly contemporary pop-R&B album. To say that the release of her 2006 sophomore effort, The High Road, finds Jojo on the cusp of superstardom is a bit of an understatement. Released when she was just 13 years old, vocalist Jojo's 2004 eponymous debut was a bona fide hit album and garnered the young pop star a legion of equally youthful fans, as well as lead roles in two films, including the 2006 comedy RV alongside Robin Williams.
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