Like Theo and Matt, I am waiting for mine to be put through the letterbox. :D

HMV have said my copy is 'on it's way', so I'm thinking I'll get it early at this rate. I want to buy the fan edition too but £21.99 at the moment seemed like a lot. :(

 

Listening online yesterday anyway and I bloody love the album. Stand Up is probably among my favourites at the moment!

OK. 'Happy Hour' isn't my least fave. It's my 2nd least fave. I'm really not keen on 'Make Me Cry'. It drags :(

 

EDIT: My ratings

 

10 '3 Words' - Loving this so much at the moment!

9 'Parachute' - Very nice song. It'll be a single for sure I think.

8 'Heaven' - Ryan summed it up perfectly I think. Very "cute". ^_^

10 'Fight For This Love' - I think this is still growing on me. However it's definately not 130k+ first 2 days sales worthy :o - Congrats to her though!

7 'Rain On Me' - The chorus annoys me. But as a song, it's good.

3 'Make Me Cry' - Not liking this one at all. In fact, I think it's getting worse :(

5 'Happy Hour' - Meh

10 'Stand Up' - The best track on the album. Definately hear the Taio influences though. 3rd single please!

7 'Don't Talk About This Love' - Nice track. Forgettable though.

7 'Boy Like You' - Nice album closer. The production is great.

 

Very impressive debut. Nice and consistent. The album grows with each listen. I wasn't going to buy this unless I found it going cheap somewhere... but now. I think I might have too. Aaah but that means having that awful artwork in my collection :puke2:

can someone send me a link please

I love Rain On Me, Make Me Cry, Happy Hour, and Boy Like You. :wub:

I so wish Parachute was the second single. :( 3 Words is decent enough but it's not in the same league.

I so wish Parachute was the second single. :( 3 Words is decent enough but it's not in the same league.

 

Literally all I have listened to since downloading the album. Listen to it for hours on repeat :wub: Just amazing! The first week album sales will be good, but she needs to sustain them and I don't see '3 words' doing that. Whereas this would. -_-

Link please! :(

How annoying? There's meant to be a postal strike tomorrow, so I doubt we're gonna get out pre-ordered copies :snif: For anyone listening that likes it, or wants to buy it, and hasn't ordered it yet, there's a cheap one on Amazon for £6.98! :o :D

Very very good album! Fave track Stand up!

It might be old news but apparently Parachute was considered for lead single so I'd guess it will be released at some point, probably after 3 Words. :D Hurrah! Current rank:

 

09.5 Parachute

09.0 Fight For This Love

09.0 Rain On Me

08.5 Boy Like You

08.5 Heaven

08.0 Happy Hour

07.5 3 Words

07.5 Stand Up

06.5 Don't Talk About This Love

05.0 Make Me Cry

 

3 Words (Album): 7.85/10

I'm also rooting for Parachute to be the 3rd single :cheer:

I'm going to go down the prehistoric route and actually buy my copy from a shop on monday morning as it's half term so no college to worry about and I don't trust the post at the moment. I'm so excited, I never listen to leaked albums before release date so its still all a suprise :dance:

My copy just arrived in the post! Listening now. :cheer:

Cheryl Cole: 3 Words

For a wronged woman, Cheryl Cole sounds

too polite, writes Tom Ewing

***

 

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Cole lotta love ... Cheryl's album rarely passes beyond conservative pleasantries

 

In July 2006 the demise of Girls Aloud was a tabloid splash. "They

just don't talk at all. It's all over," reported the News of the World. The villain

was Cheryl Tweedy, her head supposedly turned following a World Cup

trip to Germany with the England squad "Wags". So far, so predictable –

the surprise came when the split didn't happen. The group enjoyed

further hit albums and critical adoration. And Cheryl Tweedy is now

Cheryl Cole, tearful nice-cop of Saturday evening TV and – since the

kiss-and-tell stories involving husband Ashley – Britain's favourite

wronged woman.

 

The shift in the media's presentation of Cole has been remarkable. From a

Geordie brawler and apprentice Posh Spice she has turned into a beloved

young star, forever "in torment" on weekly magazine covers but still able to

tap limitless reserves of empathy. "In these times of doom and gloom,"

the editor of Grazia said last year, "all we want is a hug from Cheryl."

 

Few need that hug more than record industry executives, and the

Dianafication of Cole means this debut album is the most high-profile pop

record of 2009 – flop-proof in a way girl-group solo records rarely are. Lead

single Fight for This Love – set to be the fastest-selling single of the year –

bears this out. Initially it's underwhelming: hollow drum sounds and a

shuddering keyboard create a subdued backdrop for Cole's flinty vocal. But it

has two big commercial advantages. First of all, it's deceptively catchy.

Second, people can easily imagine it's about Ashley Cole.

 

Cheryl Cole's public profile is based on her playing heroine to two pantomime

villains. Often the moustache-twirling rogue is Simon Cowell, and the nation

applauds; the rest of the time it's her own husband. Certainly, 3 Words is being

presented as a response to those experiences. For watchers of "tormented

Cheryl", there's plenty more doggedness on offer, besides the single. "We argue

a lot no matter what we do," she hisses on Make Me Cry, adding: "Careful what

you're saying 'cos I'm trying to stay with you." On Rain On Me she snarls:"I won't

run … 'cos if you think I'm weak then that makes you strong." At times like those,

3 Words seems a co-dependents' manifesto: on the jaunty Happy Hour the

metaphor for a relationship is that classic romantic standby, alcohol addiction.

 

But whether you care about her marriage or not, all this anxiety and defiance makes

for a low-key, shadowy kind of pop record, whose best songs rarely take

immediate hold. Its most upbeat moments are its weakest: Will.I.Am and Cheryl

lumbering on to the disco floor on Heaven, and the tinny electropop of Taio Cruz's

contribution, Stand Up. Elsewhere the main sound on 3 Words is R&B, with any rhythmic

trickery stripped out. When it works, as on Parachute, you end up with an austere take

on modern pop that gives Cole's voice the space it needs. When it doesn't, songs such

as Don't Talk About This Love just end up sounding a bit cheap. Confirmation that this is a

recession-era pop album comes with the make-do-and-mend inclusion of Heartbreaker,

Will.I.Am's solo hit from last year, billed now as a Cole track despite her contribution

amounting to 30 seconds of backing vocals.

 

The album may disappoint Cole's oldest fans. At its best, Girls Aloud's work with the

Xenomania production team was smart, inventive and delightful. As a clean break

with the Girls Aloud sound, 3 Words at first sounds like a throwback to the 90s,

when acts like Louise Redknapp would put us to sleep with their unshakeably nice

R&B lite.

 

Parts of this album never pass beyond conservative pleasantries. But the shift in

sound was still necessary. The typical Xenomania production sound, as heard this autumn

on Mini Viva's I Left My Heart in Tokyo, is too busy and shrill for Cole's voice to carry

alone. She's not as full a singer as the belters and divas she presides over each week, but

she's an expressive performer and a less showy backing lets that come through. Her showcase

is the album's title track, built on dark loops of treated acoustic guitar and building into a

claustrophobic dance track. It's as brave and novel a song as anything Cole's group have

released, and shows how good she can be given a more imaginative setting. Most of 3 Words

doesn't provide that: it's ultimately too tentative and slight to be more than a footnote in

Cheryl Cole's unstoppable celebrity story.

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Sounds amazing for those who haven't resisted temptation :teresa:

I'm about to cave in :drama:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As my hmv.com exclusive version arrived this morning :cheer:

I read your post exactly how i imagined it to be said and I laughed (with a little bit of jealousy as i'm buying my copy on Monday)

Uh-oh:

Frankmusik: OK SO Cheryl Cole ft Will.i.am - Boy Like You IS A COMPLETE RIP OFF OF A TRACK I DID FOUND HERE http://bit.ly/s9rFA

1 hour ago from web

-Twitter.

Edited October 22, 200915 yr by Theo Aloud
Corrected link

The Instant Factor goes to: Parachute, FFTL (obv), Stand Up, Make Me Cry, Rain On Me.

 

Loving the album so far :wub: Stand Up my fave so far. Ratings soon :kink:

Uh-oh:

 

-Twitter.

Fucking prick, how dare he!? He posted his song on 23rd September. Cheryl spent 9 months writing/recording her album = her song came first. Fucking jerk. Who does he think he is?

 

Nuff said -_-