Album cover:

 

http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/PRERELCDSTONEY.JPG

 

 

Album tracklisting:

 

1. "Vinny Jones Intro"

2. "Girls, You Won't Believe It"

3. "Head Turner"

4. "Tell Me 'Bout It"

5. "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now" (featuring Common)

6. "Put Your Hands on Me Baby"

7. "Music" (featuring Lauryn Hill)

8. "In the Arms of My Baby"

9. "I Wish (Interlude)"

10. "I Wish"

11. "Catch Me"

12. "Not Real Love"

13. "Baby Baby Baby"

14. "What Were We Thinking"

15. "Music Outro"

 

You can also listen to the single, Tell Me Bout It, and Tell Me What We Gonna Do Now (featuring Common) on her MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/jossstone

 

Update: Joss has confirmed her third album will be entitled 'Introducing Joss Stone' and will feature a duet with Lauryn Hill and a collobaration with Common!

 

 

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When British R&B songstress Joss Stone started writing material for her forthcoming third album, Introducing Joss Stone, she decided she wanted the disc to feature a couple of collaborations. More than anything, though, Stone wanted to work with one of her favorite artists, the Fugees' Lauryn Hill. In her mind, the musical pairing just had to happen. So for months the 19-year-old tried to secure a commitment from the seven-time Grammy Award-winning artist, but to no avail.

 

Rather than stalk Hill's management or record-label heads, Stone turned to a more intimate source to make the magic happen.

 

"I called her mum every day for like a month and a half," Stone explained. "I couldn't get a hold of [Lauryn], and there was no answer from [her camp] — I couldn't get a yes or a no. So I just kept calling her mother."

 

And Stone's persistence eventually paid off, with Hill hopping on board to contribute to the track "Music," which Joss described as her love letter to song.

 

"I wrote it based off of the Fugees track 'The Mask' [from 1996's The Score], but now the track has changed drastically — but the bass line's similar," Stone said. "I really think that everybody goes through life looking for love in all the wrong places — in human beings. Unconditional love is impossible to get from a human being, but it's not impossible to get from music. And Lauryn, I've wanted to work with her since the first time I heard her voice. It's a dream come true for me — a goal I can mark off my list. I love her so much, and she's just so talented. She's just a poet."

 

When Introducing Joss Stone — which she co-produced with Raphael Saadiq (Mos Def, the Roots) — is released in March, fans will also find a "wicked" collaboration with Common, another of Stone's favorite performers, on the cut "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now."

 

"With rappers it's difficult, because sometimes you can get all that gangsta rap, which means nothing," she explained. "Sometimes it's good to listen to, in certain situations, but there's no substance to it. With people like Common or Lauryn or Nas [who she did not work with on the album], they're real poets. They're really saying something, and that's why I needed them on the record. ... I wanted artists who had something to say."

 

Stone began writing the follow-up to 2004's Mind, Body & Soul back in April and brought about 60 songs with her into a studio in Barbados in September. When it's finished, Introducing will boast a dozen tracks, including "Girls, They Won't Believe It," "Tell Me 'Bout It" (the first single) and "I Wish," which she said is a "calm 'F--- you' that just needed to be done. I had to get that one out of me, and it was inspired by that feeling of, 'I wish I never met you, because then, I wouldn't feel anything at all.' When you come out of a bad relationship, you just kind of wish it never happened in the first place, because you would never have to feel that aftermath."

 

Stone, who recently made her film debut in the fantasy epic "Eragon" (see "Joss Stone Gets In Touch With Witchy Side For Film Debut In 'Eragon' "), titled the album Introducing Joss Stone because, for the first time in her relatively young career, "I feel like it's really my album — like, I made it. I decided who to work with, and what songs to put on there. I wrote the songs. This is what I want to hear when I hear my album."

 

She's a bit less enthusiastic about her first two records, Mind, Body & Soul and 2003's The Soul Sessions, which goes a long way toward explaining her new LP title. "There were songs [on the earlier albums] there I didn't want on there and vocal performances I didn't feel were good enough," she explained. "I cannot tour for two years singing songs that I really don't feel. I want to be able to say, 'This is my song that I love, that I wrote, and it means this and that.' I want to go on TV and be able to say, 'Yes,' when they ask me if I like it. Before I couldn't say that. I can't lie. I just wanted to love my music. That's the reason why we live — to be happy."

 

And working with Saadiq did just that.

 

"He just gets me, and musically, everything came together when he came along," she said. "For years, since I was 14, I've been trying to tell people what I want to hear. One, they didn't listen to me because I was too young; and two, they didn't know how to listen to me, because they really weren't in the same headspace as me. But he just gets it. Finally someone understands. That's how I feel with him. He wanted to make me happy, and he gave me everything I asked for — and more."

 

Ultimately, Introducing is an album Stone said she can be proud of, and one that truly represents her as an artist.

 

"This is the first album I did by myself, and I felt I had to prove myself with it," she said. "I think this is one of those albums that, when it ends, just leaves you wanting more."

 

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1548895/2...227/index.jhtml

 

 

Joss Stone is delving deeper into R&B and soul on her new, as-yet-untitled album, due March 6 via Virgin, Billboard.com has learned. The set was produced by Raphael Saadiq, whose resume includes Angie Stone, Jill Scott, Kelis and the Grammy-winning Erykah Badu and Common duet, "Love of My Life."

 

The 19-year-old Stone hit Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas to record the album, which will feature such tracks as "Headturner," "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now," "Music," "Tell Me 'Bout It," "Nothing Better Than (The iPod Song)" and "I Wish I Never Met You." It's the follow-up to 2004's "Mind, Body & Soul," which debuted at No. 11 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 1.2 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

 

Meanwhile, Stone will make her big-screen debut in the fantasy film "Eragon," which opens Dec. 15 in U.S. theaters. Based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Paolini, it also stars Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich.

 

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003380795

 

Credit: CFR

 

Well the first single has leaked what do we think?

 

I can't wait for the Lauryn Hill duet. :o

thanks for posting kelly soo glad shes back..i just listened to the tracks on her myspace and i love them. tell me what we gonna do now is gorgeous :wub:

so shes introducing herself on her third album :unsure:

so shes introducing herself on her third album :unsure:

Well the first one was technically an EP. -_-

ok second then :lol:

 

still years after everyone found out about her and shes only just introducing herself :o

Maybe she thinks album is the real HER? :o

Well Joss makes it no secret that she doesn't like her first two albums, so I'm guessing now she feels like this is her! I dunno...

 

I can't wait for the album though!

Oh good I like her. :D I'll have a listen later. :funky:

ACE COVER :D

ACE COVER :D

I thought so too. :D Very different. :o

Looking forward to her album, I've got her previous 2

I'll prolly get this too. I have Mind Body and Soul but I never really got into it. I really like Tell Me Bout It and I think this album has got a lot more potential.

 

I'd buy it just for that cover :o It's really sexy!

"Music" (featuring Lauryn Hill) - now that sounds interesting

can't wait for this :wub:

Looking forward to this album, even though the first single hasn't made much of an impression on me.

 

Mind, Body and Soul was a good album. My faves were: Right To Be Wrong, Security, Snakes and Ladders and Killing Time.

I LOVE Joss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

 

So glad she's back!!! Can't wait to get my hands on the new album!!!!!! :yahoo:

Maybe she thinks album is the real HER? :o

 

maybe she having a laugh. maybe her next proper album might be called debut or greatest hits

It's obvious this album is made for her American fanbase, with a title like that and a collaboration with Lauryn Hill -_-

 

Don't think much of the first single from it, but I usually like her stuff so I'm hoping it does well ^_^

Cant wait for this liking the new single and the other one on her myspace.

Im not gonna get this until it comes out

yessirey! No downloading before so!