- Thu, 2011-03-17 11:18
Jessie J has crash landed on top of I Like Music with her guest edit featuring a Track, Album and Video of her choice and a 20 Track Playlist put together by the pop songstress herself, featuring Eternal, Beyonce, Prince, Etta James and more...
Track
Artist: D.Train Track: You're The One For Me Released: 1981 Label: Prelude
My track would have to be D. Train, You're The One For Me. My dad used to play soul albums all weekend when I was a kid, and You're The One For Me was always the song that would get me and my family bouncing. Ha ha! It just reminds me of parties when I was a kid and of that time with my family. And I just love D. Train. I love Funkadelic and The Gap Band and loads of old school 80s funk music. Probably because of my dad…and those parties.
Album
Artist: Lauryn Hill Track: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Released: 25th August 1998 Label: Ruffhouse / Columbia
My album would be The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill. The best album I've ever heard. I can listen to it any time of the day, any time of the year and it always feels current. It was one of the first albums that made me want to write songs, it was so autobiographical and that's exactly how I am as a writer. I just listened to it and thought "this is so honest", and the way it was put together was so educational but not preachy. It was just very inspirational. I hope my album can give to young people the same thing that her album did.
Video
Artist: Beyonce Track: Why Don't You Love Me Released: 2nd July 2010 Label: Columbia
There's so many! Ah! Um…I wanna pick Beyonce, Why Don't You Love Me. When I saw it I just felt like…well, there were so many looks in that video! She looks amazing! And I just think it's such a cool video, she's one of my absolute favourites. And that song wasn't one of her massive ones. But it's a really good song, and an amazing video too. I feel like Beyonce inspires me to be a pop icon and it's videos like that that make me go "oh what could I do, and how could I push myself?" I think it's really interesting to see artists create characters and act as well as just sing. She's one of them, she's one of my idols.
Jessie J Playlist
1. Hanson - MMMBop
2. Eternal Featuring BeBe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One
3. TLC - Waterfalls
4. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
5. Mariah Carey - Honey
6. Destiny's Child - Say My Name
7. Spice Girls - 2 Become 1
8. Michael Jackson - Heal The World
9. All Saints - Never Ever
10. Craig David - 7 Days
11. Rihanna - Man Down
12. Mark Morrison - Return of The Mack
13. Beyonce - Irreplaceable
14. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
15. D-Train - You're The One For Me
16. Rihanna - Rude Boy
17. Adele - Someone Like You
18. Etta James - At Last
19. Prince - 1999
20. Jessie J - Mamma Knows Best
Interview #636: Jessie J Read the full interview here
