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Thursday, October 4, 2007
10/4: Jordin’s CD out 11/20
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With Blake’s CD out November 27, it makes sense to release Jordin’s a week earlier. She’s still working on it, according to mtv.com..
“My life has pretty much been airplanes, buses and hotel rooms,” Sparks said, adding that even during the tour, she was writing songs for her debut. “To me, when I think of people making records, it usually takes, depending on who they are, nine months or so, maybe a year. I have a couple of months, so let’s just try to get it done. Now that the ‘Idol’ tour’s over, I don’t have to balance that with finishing the record. I can just concentrate on finishing the record, and I’m working really hard on it.”
Sparks said the album is “not complete R&B or hip-hop” — it also includes pop and country elements. “It’s hard to make everything fit together,” she said — something she feels she achieved on “Tattoo,” the album’s first single, which she co-wrote with Amanda Ghost (who penned the Beyoncé and Shakira hit “Beautiful Liar”). “I fit all of that into one song, so I hope the songs I have on the album will resonate with that. There are some slow songs, a ballad called ‘Permanent Monday.’ I’m just so excited.”
Her production team includes the Underdogs (Ne-Yo, Chris Brown); Robbie Nevil (former “C’est La Vie” singer who has worked on the “High School Musical” and “Hannah Montana” soundtracks); Norwegian duo Stargate (Nas, Rihanna); Sam Watters (Tamyra Gray’s hubby and former Colour Me Badd singer who has worked with Diana DeGarmo, Jessica Simpson); and Eman (Nick Lachey, Katharine McPhee).
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