After two months of basically silence on the news front, we’re now seeming to get an overload of new information about Blake’s album, due out this fall. No new info about the actual label, but here’s a new article from Billboard that talks more about the album, producers, and collaborators. An excerpt:
Lewis says he’s recorded eight songs so far, working with producers such as Sam Hollander, Mike Elizondo and J.R. Rottem, with bt working on another track.
“It’s your favorite ’80s mix tape,” Lewis says, “very inspired by Michael Jackson, Prince, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, the Cure. It’s all over the map, really — very influenced by ’80s hip-hop, old school breaks, whatever.”
“They’re letting me down the album I’ve always wanted to make,” says Lewis, who’s written 11 of his own songs for the set.
Mike Elizondo most recently produced a big chunk of Maroon 5’s latest effort It Won’t Be Soon Before Long. He’s also worked with such artists as Eminem, Nelly Furtado, and Fiona Apple. Sam Hollander has worked with a good roster of artists as well, including Gym Class Heroes. And we already knew about JR Rottem and BT.
ADD is sounding like it’s shaping up to be a GREAT album!
Thanks Kirsten and star!
After several listens, “Break Anotha,” with its opening blast of sirens and its hiccup-y beats, sounds like it could easily hold its own on Billboard’s Hot 100. In other words, it’s not just a “good for an Idol graduate” kind of single, but instead the kind of track I’d spend money to download. Oddly, Blake’s falsetto and the flurry of strings on the bridge is slightly reminiscent of J.Lo’s “Do It Well,” but his voice sounds nonetheless confident and radio-ready throughout. And Blake’s lyrical word of caution (”So desperate/Be your best friend/Sign you up just to cross you off his checklist”) about a chronic womanizer — complete with a breakdown that suggests that he might, in fact, be the cad in question — is a refreshing change of pace from “moment like this” goo.
