incredible artwork

 

bye

i can't stop staring.

somethin about it i LOVE the more i look at it. if it was a more flattering angle of her brick jaw which i'm aware she can't rly help then it would be pretty much spot on

I don't quite know what to make of it, I was expecting something more in line with the artwork of the singles (like for her head to be disonnected from the neck would've been cool).

 

There's only so many times an artist can churn out the same artwork designs. We don't need another will.i.am.

Tracklist-

1 Hideaway

2 No Enemiesz

3 Losin' My Mind (feat. Mick Jenkins)

4 So Deep

5 Vietnam

6 Bad Thing (feat. Joey Bada$$)

7 What Is Love

8 Sound Of A Woman

9 The Love

10 Piano

11 Giant In My Heart

12 Over Myself

13 Cut Me Loose

 

glad what is love made it, it is a pretty lovely cover so a nice album track.

but who is joey bada$$ and why is he called that :sick:

 

here's so deep btw

'So Deep' and 'What Is Love' made it in the end http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ed2305b7.png

 

THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR IS COMING I CAN'T WAIT!

Entertainment Weekly:

Kiesza talks ‘Hideaway,’ ’90s dance-pop, and her upcoming album

 

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Back in January, an obscure Calgary born singer named Kiesza quietly posted to her SoundCloud an immediately addictive dance- pop track that brings early-’90s diva-fronted club pop thundering back to life. Nine months, a viral music video, and one very impressive late-night appearance later, “Hideaway” is a hit (currently at number 55 after nearly two months on the Hot 100), anticipation for her upcoming album is reaching a fever pitch, and Kiesza has become one of the year’s breakout stars. EW reached her by phone on her way to perform at the iTunes Festival in London to talk about “Hideaway” and what we should expect from her upcoming full-length.

 

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s talk about “Hideaway.” Where did it come from?

KIESZA: The song happened really, really quickly. I was actually leaving the studio and I had to catch a plane to LA. and I was already late for my flight. I had grabbed my stuff and was leaving and my producer went back into the studio and started pulling up synths and started playing the chord progression to “Hideaway.” He was just fooling around, but as soon as he started playing it the melody to “Hideaway” popped into my head and I ran back in and said, “Can I just lay down this melody for you?” So I ended up singing the melody really fast, and then I had some lyric ideas so I was like, “You know what? I’ll just write some lyrics down.” I ended up demoing the melody and lyrics and I thought I was going to miss my flight—I really did—but I jumped in the car and went to the airport and still made it. Before I was even at the airport he had finished the production, so the whole thing was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in 90 minutes. We just kept the demo vocals because they sounded so good when he sent it to me. Honestly it practically channeled itself. I didn’t sit down and think through the concept or anything. It just came out of nowhere.

 

That’s incredible. What’s it like to see the song take off the way that it has?

It’s very surreal. It’s actually a very strange feeling because it happened so quickly that it was really hard to process. It’s almost like time just sort of flashed by. Even looking back I still almost feel like it’s January, when I released the song, and yet all this stuff has happened–it’s gone number one in like 21 countries, I’ve been touring all summer long, and it’s so intense, I literally look back and I’m like, “Did that happen?” It’s unbelievable. It sort of did its own thing, like when we put it on Soundcloud it started picking up even before the video. It’s like the song sort of paves its own path. I can’t even say how I did it, how I wrote it. I’m just enjoying the ride and trying to keep up with it.

 

What’s it like to have this thing you spent, like, zero time on take off compared to, I’m sure there’s other stuff you struggled to finish.

Oh yeah, there’s a song on the album that took me two years to complete. I got the chorus and I just couldn’t come up with verses and a pre-chorus that I thought were strong enough for the song. Then eventually I got the verses and the pre-chorus but then I didn’t have a bridge to tie the whole song together. But it doesn’t affect me that a song I wrote in 90 minutes does so well and something that took me two years…they’re such different things. Actually that song is the very end song of the album and “Hideaway” is the first. I’m really proud of the album, actually. It has so much variety on it. It’s very cohesive but yet every [song] is sort of its own thing. They have their own personalities.

 

When I first heard “Hideaway” it reminded me a lot of that 1990-era vocal house, club pop type of stuff. I assume that was intentional.

Nothing was intentional because we didn’t even have a second to think about it. We were just playing. I’m 25 and [producer Rami Samir Afuni] is 27, so we’re both kind of the same age. We were babies during the early ’90s when that sound was big but both of us grew up loving that sound. So we didn’t sit down and say, “Let’s make a ’90s record.” But I think because both of us are really passionate about that era it just sort of naturally came out that way. My mom was a huge fan of that era. Those songs lived on in my house for a long time. I think just being influenced by them from such a young age; that’s why I channel them so quickly now. I had a whole vision for the entire album once “Hideaway” was created. It’s all very reminiscent of that era but it’s been combined with modern sounds that are right now. It’s like a modern ’90s, like a throwback to the future. There’s some hip-hop. There’s some R&B. There’s a big ballad. Actually two ballads. It’s got a lot of variety. It’s created like a classic album, where the intention is that you’d listen to it the whole way through. I didn’t create it with a singles market in mind, even though that’s what we’re in.

 

We just did a playlist with Joey Bada$$ and he mentioned that you guys were working on something. What can you tell me about that?

Yeah, we collaborated totally last minute—like, two days before I had to turn the album in. He hit me up on Twitter and I was like, “Yeah, come to the studio,” and we ended up making a song, and I loved it so much that we put it on the album. And then I ended up singing on one of his songs. I think when you see it on the album you’ll see that it’s not such an unexpected pairing.

 

SHAPING UP

I'm really intrigued to see what this album is like, I'm perhaps not as excited as I was 6 months ago but the new single has helped reignite my interest.

According to MTV the UK release date is November 17th, a week after the release of 'No Enemiesz' :D

(oops double post)

 

She's also scheduled to perform on Ellen on September 24th, no doubt it'll be 'Hideaway' tho to help it out stateside but I'm hoping for a medley of some sort!

Not so happy that 'What Is Love' is on there but 'So Deep' was a great track from her EP.

Not so happy that 'What Is Love' is on there but 'So Deep' was a great track from her EP.

'What Is Love' is EVERYTHING. :wub:

 

I'm a bit baffled at 'Giant In My Heart' being so low down in the track list tho and I hope 'So Deep' gets a bit reworked for the album, I can see many dismissing it as bland but gosh that last minute of it is pure bliss!

I do love the What Is Love cover too. I was sorta half-hoping it'd get a single release so that it could be the big November ballad of the year *.* but No Enemiesz is great too so I can't complain :heart:

What Is Love is her best song by far :wub: I adore it.

Bad Thing (feat. Joey Bada$$) is here

 

So dreamy, pretty lovely but he's more than unnecessary.

Bad Thing is available as an instant grat tomorrow when the album goes up for pre-order!

'Bad Thing' has been very well-received online so far :D

 

MTV:

Kiesza slows things down considerably on her new song, which, despite the title, really isn’t a “Bad Thing” for her to do at all.

 

“Danger when you make me ‘Ooooo,’” the “Hideaway” singer moans about some lover lovah she just can’t keep her hands off of — even though she probably should — before finally concluding: “But I think that’s a good thing.”

 

Featured artist Joey Bada$$ comes in to commiserate with our resident ’90s-House enthusiast. “Deluded by these illusions,” “dancing with this little devil” —ummmm, at least you’ve got each other?

Stereogum:

It’s a bit weird to hear the young New York rap traditionalist Joey Bada$$ jump on a track with a rising dance-pop singer. But then DJ Premier did produce a bunch of songs for Christina Aguilera, so maybe it’s on-brand. And anyway, “Bad Thing,” the new song from Canadian singer Kiesza, doesn’t sound anything like her breakout track “Hideaway.” Instead, it lurches and twinkles, a bass-pop approximation of that old boom-bap sound. Bada$$ and Kiesza also show more chemistry on the track than you might expect.

 

M&L:

Kiesza’s well-known for her deep-house sound ("Hideaway”, “Giant in My Heart”). I mean, it’s the only sound we know from her as all of the songs she’s released thus far are of that genre. So imagine my surprise when I started listening to the Joey Badass-assisted album track “Bad Thing” and all I could hear was R&B. Very different, huh? It just feels strange listening Kiesza in a non-house song. “Bad Thing” is nice, Kiesza certainly delivers beautiful vocals, but I don't think it can be placed in the category of "the best Kiesza songs”. I guess I don’t love it that much because it’s not deep-house music and I feel this is the genre where Kiesza feels more comfortable and her talent and spark really comes to shining. It's going to take a bit of time for me adapt to the idea of hearing Kiesza in other genres. And it seems “Sound of a Woman” will be a mix of deep-house and R&B songs.

 

In “Bad Thing”, Kiesza inwardly debates whether an action she's doing is wrong or not.

Radio.com

With “Hideaway” still taking the world by storm, Kiesza has unveiled another track from her upcoming debut album, this one aiming for a more broad audience, with one of hip-hop’s rising stars helping her spread her reach.

 

Teamed with Joey Bada$$, Kiesza has released “Bad Thing,” which, true to its title, finds the Canadian singer showing her trouble making side, leaving the world of mainstream ready pop music and joining the more artistically challenging world of pop-rap fusion.

 

Sure, that may sound a little contrived in description, but the song works, with Kiesza finding her Banks-y groove early and Joey Bada$$ tying the song together with a laid back flow on the back end.

 

Most importantly, this song proves Kiesza has more tricks in her bag than we have already seen, and furthers anticipation of her upcoming album.

 

Her vocal on it is so good, I feel like people deeming her a screecher and the nu La Roux really should give this song a try <3

to be honest I thought the artwork for the singles were absolutely atrocious, I must say the album's artwork is a vast improvement, however I still wouldn't deem it amazing. Excited for this album! :D

Seeing her live November 7.

 

No doubt she will be amazing!

What Is Love is her best song by far :wub: I adore it.

 

I agree totally...not really liked anything else she has done!