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BuzzJack Music Forum _ R&B and Hip-Hop _ Mabel - High Expectations

Posted by: Juan Carlos ⚡️ 22nd March 2019, 03:26 AM

There was a Q&A on Twitter and she mentioned that she will release her debut album this year.


Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 22nd March 2019, 10:08 AM

Was her first one just a buzz album then?

Posted by: Bjork 22nd March 2019, 11:10 AM

a mixtape

Posted by: Jack 18th April 2019, 08:58 AM



Exciting!! Glad she's finally releasing instead of just adding all the singles to 'Ivy To Roses' :')

Posted by: Liаm 18th April 2019, 11:05 AM

Tracklist:

1. High Expectations (Intro)
2. Bad Behaviour
3. Don't Call Me Up
4. FML
5. We Don't Say...
6. Selfish Love (feat. Kamille)
7. Lucky (Interlude)
8. Mad Love
9. Trouble
10. Put Your Name On It
11. Stckhlm Syndrome (Interlude)
12. Ok (Anxiety Anthem)
13. I Belong To Me
14. High Expectations (Outro)

Bonus Tracks:

1. Finders Keepers (with Kojo Funds)
2. Fine Line (with Not3s)
3. My Lover (with Not3s)
4. Ring Ring (with Jax Jones)
5. Cigarette (with RAYE & Stefflon Don)
6. Not Sayin'

Lots of tracks and all her singles bar One Shot!! *.*

Posted by: Theonix 18th April 2019, 11:14 AM

I'm looking forward to this, hopefully she's not left it too late after Don't Call Me Up - it will have been out for half a year by the time this is out. I'm not sure why Cigarette is included over One Shot but okay laugh.gif I'm intrigued to hear Ok (Anxiety Anthem) the most at the moment

Posted by: jakewild 18th April 2019, 11:36 AM

i love her so much

Posted by: Klaus 18th April 2019, 12:43 PM

Finally! So excited, gutted about One Shot not being there though yet Cigarette is sleep.gif

Posted by: Theonix 18th April 2019, 12:48 PM



This artwork is stunning! ohmy.gif

Posted by: Jack 18th April 2019, 12:54 PM

Yassss I love that artwork!

Posted by: jakewild 18th April 2019, 01:35 PM

OKAY ARI!

Posted by: JosephAvery 18th April 2019, 07:49 PM

The picture on the artwork is lovely but I don't like the rest sad.gif the background is the worst bit, it's so cheap looking. Not that keen on the font either but that's been an ongoing thing this era lol.

Really intrigued to hear this though! Especially as it'll mostly be brand new songs on the main album.

Posted by: vibe 19th April 2019, 08:08 PM

Cover is bad .

But look forward to this !!

Posted by: Cqmerqn 10th May 2019, 08:13 AM

Pushed back to August 2nd

Posted by: vibe 10th May 2019, 08:23 PM

Where is one shot sad.gif

Cigarette isn’t really her song.

Posted by: lewistgreen 2nd June 2019, 10:06 AM

She’s on Sunday Brunch right now and I was hoping for a nice new song given Mad Love is out on Friday but noooo she’s performing Don’t Call Me Up :’)

Posted by: Bjork 2nd June 2019, 10:29 AM

boo wasted opportunity
but she needs to practice her tv appearances, saw her in a US TV show doing DCMU and was painful to watch, she was so nervous she was shaking like a leave and her voice was totally off...

Posted by: lewistgreen 17th July 2019, 04:12 PM

Bad Behaviour is apparently the next track to be released. Date is TBC for now but I’d imagine it’s this Friday or next

Posted by: Cqmerqn 17th July 2019, 10:18 PM

Out 26th

Posted by: Mack. 18th July 2019, 04:32 PM

Not sure with the ode to Ariana on the album. How you do expect the album to do for her?

Posted by: legendsglory 23rd July 2019, 01:57 PM

Bad Behaviour out 5pm

Posted by: lewistgreen 23rd July 2019, 05:46 PM


Posted by: LewisGT 24th July 2019, 02:03 PM

Video for Bad Behaviour



The simplistic video suggests to me that it's not going to be a proper single at any point.

Posted by: Jack 24th July 2019, 09:13 PM

It's really not that great sad.gif.

Posted by: JosephAvery 25th July 2019, 12:55 AM

I'm all over Mad Love right now but I agree, this one's not doing it for me sad.gif

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 25th July 2019, 10:59 PM

cute song altho it is a bit too drake for my liking. SUPER brave of her MGMT to do a performance video when she has not an ounce of charisma

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 25th July 2019, 11:01 PM

don't call me up and mad love remain THOSE bops

Posted by: Jack 26th July 2019, 08:40 AM

QUOTE(Rhoda Camel @ Jul 25 2019, 11:59 PM) *
cute song altho it is a bit too drake for my liking. SUPER brave of her MGMT to do a performance video when she has not an ounce of charisma

Truth, maybe it'll come in time but she has no charisma or star quality about her, bless her.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 26th July 2019, 11:26 AM

QUOTE(Jack @ Jul 26 2019, 09:40 AM) *
Truth, maybe it'll come in time but she has no charisma or star quality about her, bless her.


I agree! There's just... nothing.

Posted by: TheSnake 26th July 2019, 07:14 PM

You are all very harsh on Mabel's charisma and star quality levels laugh.gif

But then you are the pop/R&B artist star quality experts more than me biggrin.gif

Anyway Bad Behaviour is quite good, but I would agree it is no 'Mad Love'. It also doesn't have the distinctive male dancehall backing vocals in it that 'Don't Call Me Up' and 'Mad Love' has.

Posted by: legendsglory 1st August 2019, 04:00 PM

Out at midnight! The snippets so far have sounded very promising. Im HYPED

Posted by: LewisGT 2nd August 2019, 01:48 PM

This is a really nice album but none of the album tracks really sounded like future singles to me.

I did book tickets to see her in Liverpool next year though biggrin.gif

Posted by: legendsglory 2nd August 2019, 07:52 PM

QUOTE(LewisGT @ Aug 2 2019, 02:48 PM) *
This is a really nice album but none of the album tracks really sounded like future singles to me.

I did book tickets to see her in Liverpool next year though biggrin.gif

Trouble and Selfish Love stood out to me along with a few others.

Posted by: Wall 2nd August 2019, 08:00 PM

I can see this debuting at #3 tbh

Posted by: Cqmerqn 2nd August 2019, 08:04 PM

OK (Anxiety Anthem) is such a tune!

Posted by: JosephAvery 2nd August 2019, 10:06 PM

The album is.... mega disappointing for me sad.gif It's not bad by any means, it's a nice listen, but samey in parts and most tracks don't stand out. I also don't really get why the old singles were relegated to a second disc as they'd actually improve the quality of disc 1 if they were interspersed in my opinion...!

Posted by: JosephAvery 2nd August 2019, 10:07 PM

Also why is Not Sayin' on disc 2 when it's the only one that actually has single potential? laugh.gif

Posted by: Juliano 2nd August 2019, 10:39 PM

Selfish Love is a BOP! My clear favourite of the album tracks. No reason One Shot shouldn't have made this album, it's better than half of it.

Posted by: Klaus 3rd August 2019, 08:41 AM

One Shot should have definitely been on there sad.gif

I liked the album on first listen, I think there will be more growers on there than the instant singles she's had. FML feels a bit odd to have as a hook though.

None of the album tracks screamed hit single at me so she may be another artist to quickly move on after the release of an album. On the flip side, she may just keep adding to it like she did with Ivy & Roses!

If she were to release another single, they may go for Selfish Love or maybe push for OK (Anxiety Anthem). I could also see them just going ahead with Bad Behaviour though.

Posted by: Bjork 3rd August 2019, 09:20 AM

but One Shot was on Ivy to Roses I think, like all the old singles


Posted by: JosephAvery 4th August 2019, 01:16 AM

QUOTE(Bjork @ Aug 3 2019, 10:20 AM) *
but One Shot was on Ivy to Roses I think, like all the old singles

It was, but all the old singles are also on this (well, from her breakthrough onwards).

Posted by: Bjork 4th August 2019, 10:39 AM

it's so confusing cos she first released Ivy to Roses with just Finders Keepers...
then she expanded so it had all the singles (Don't let me down, Ring ring, One shot, Fine line, My Lover, Cigarette)
but that was not considered her album debut, not sure why... at this point it could have been

and now she has her so-called debut and all the singles bar Ring ring are tagged along again

Posted by: pippa 5th August 2019, 06:30 PM

It is understandable that her singles are tagged onto this album especially with Mad Love such a ht.

Posted by: jark 12th August 2019, 09:05 PM

Not Sayin' is such a sublimely good pop song (dying at this thread being in R&B - seriously guys), I can't wrap my head around the fact that it's (i) hidden away on disc 2 behind five old songs and (ii) not going to be a single, and wasn't the big launch single instead of Mad Love. What an epic failure of common sense.

It, Bad Behaviour and Selfish Love are literally leagues ahead of everything else here. Properly great, and gives me hope that she's going to be around a good while. But they better Superbass that shit.

Posted by: Cqmerqn 12th August 2019, 09:07 PM

OK (Anxiety Anthem) is so good!

Posted by: legendsglory 13th August 2019, 08:53 PM

QUOTE(Cqmerqn @ Aug 12 2019, 10:07 PM) *
OK (Anxiety Anthem) is so good!

Really want it to be the next single!

Posted by: Voodoo 17th August 2019, 09:55 AM

QUOTE(legendsglory @ Aug 13 2019, 11:53 PM) *
Really want it to be the next single!


Posted by: legendsglory 17th August 2019, 02:33 PM

QUOTE(Voodoo @ Aug 17 2019, 10:55 AM) *

Amazing. Perfect choice! It will be good for the public to see a different side to her. Hope this turns out to be a smash.

Posted by: Mack. 2nd September 2019, 01:47 PM

QUOTE(Voodoo @ Aug 17 2019, 10:55 AM) *

Yes this is a great choice for the next single.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 14th October 2019, 05:05 PM

Didn’t know where to post this but she’s on strictly next Sunday!

This could be great for the album as it’s showcasing her to a new audience and the biggest TV slot available right now too.

Posted by: Frenchie 14th October 2019, 05:15 PM

Ooh, that’s so amazing for her. Hopefully she sings ‘God Is A Dancer’ to give it a boost on the charts.

Posted by: Cqmerqn 14th October 2019, 06:16 PM

I imagine it’ll be DCMU

Posted by: vibe 20th October 2019, 08:37 PM

Shame it was DCMU

The performance was not great !!!

Posted by: Gerald 16th April 2020, 07:02 PM

For the record;

This was one of my favourite albums of 2019. An amazing debut album by Mabel. There's literally no bad song on it. My favourites (alongside the singles) from it; FML, Bad Behaviour, Selfish Love, We Don't Say..., Stckhlm Syndrome and Trouble.

P.S. MAD LOVE IS THAT BOP!!!

Posted by: Liam.k. 28th July 2020, 03:04 PM


Posted by: Jack 28th July 2020, 03:31 PM

I really don't see the point in that, I love her, but she's not renowned for her vocals imo

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