Jessie J's first two singles were two contrasting forces: the brashness of "Do It Like a Dude" likened her to the UK's response to Nicki Minaj, while the guitar driven pop "Price Tag" showed her as a top forty goldmine. I forgave her for releasing "Wild" earlier because I assumed that it would grow on me like "Laserlight" did, but it did not. Then I looked to the 2nd single, "It's My Party" because Sir Calvin Harris produced it and he had yet to disappoint with his productions.
Jessie, gurl we know you can sing. We don't need you to go Christina Aguilera on us and oversing the whole song. It was cute when you did it on "Domino", but that should have been a one time thing. And the fact that Calvin did nothing to make the song even remotely interesting is a crime in itself. It sounds like he blatantly ripped off Dr.Luke's signature recycle-a-song format and paired it with what David Guetta did with "Laserlight", which was essentially a copy of his flaw-free collab with Sia "Titanium" and out came "It's My Party". And with all the amazing songs he's released in the past year (he even made Cheryl Cole sound good), there is no excuse why this shouldn't have been "Sweet Nothing" 2.0. Jessie is officially 0-2 in this era.
Final Grade:C-
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