Jennifer Hudson’s Upcoming Album Drops 9/30 – Features a Duet with Fantasia
I’m pulling this item out of the headlines thread, because I love me some Fantasia Barrino AND some Jennifer Hudson, and according to Roger Friedman of Fox News, Jennifer’s new album, due to drop next Tuesday, will feature a duet between the two Divas from Season 3. The song is called “I’m His Only Woman”, and it sounds like a knock-down drag-out fight doesn’t it? Jennifer and Fantasia should perform it on Idol next season. That could give Simon Cowell an out-and-out heart attack. Heh.
Jennifer and Fantasia–a duet made of win!
Friedman previews the entire album favorably–no doubt taking his marching orders from BFF Clive Davis. Let’s hope Jennifer doesn’t piss Clive off, or he’ll be sending his boy out back out to trash her a la Kelly Clarkson. No love lost between he and David Cook either! But I digress…
The album has a little Hip-hop–featuring Ludacris (a tune called “Pocketbook”–fierce!) and T-Pain, (“What’s Wrong”, listen here). Robin Thicke contributes on a track (it’s beautiful, listen to it here) and “I Am Telling You” from Dreamgirls is thrown in for good measure.
Friedman seems to think the big hit on the album is “If This Isn’t Love” (listen here). It’s got that current sound–annoying drumbeats, space-age sound effects and Jennifer’s vocals digitized and synthesized to the nth degree–but heh, that sort of thing seems to go over well with the kids these days, so what do I know?
Jennifer Hudson drops next Tuesday, 9/30. You can pre-order the album from Amazon HERE
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5 Responses to “Jennifer Hudson’s Upcoming Album Drops 9/30 – Features a Duet with Fantasia”
Not sure I will buy the entire cd, but certainly the duet alone is worth about 10 bucks. I say they chew the scenery and everything else in their way. I expect alot from this track.
I’m not so big on the over-processed (clap clap), digitized (clap clap), all-sound-alike (clap clap) songs, but I guess at least I can tell that it IS J-Hud, unike, oh I don’t know, Kat McPhee, Rihanna, Jojo, Leona Lewis, all of whom sound pretty interchangeable to me in their singles.
I’m interested hear the Fantasia/JH duet – two massive voices on one song. Only one of them can be dominant when they’re singing together. Hmmmm…I’m confident that it’ll sound like Sunday morning. Yeah, I wanna hear that one.
Although it’s sort of generic, I kinda like Roger Friedman’s choice. Jennifer’s voice is AMAZING, but it’s also huge. Sometimes I get the feeling that she still doesn’t quite know what to do with it. It took me a while to get used to “Spotlight”, but now that works for me.
An R & B power-ballad will probably be her best shot. The more I think about it, FanJen might be a winning combination.
pocket book is fierce…and it’ll appeal to the younger gen. i kinda wish there had been one more verse of back and forth between luda and jen.
fantasia and jen… vocal gymnastics that’ll appeal to uac/mainstream r&b for sure. and so too will the duet ‘what’s wrong’ with t-pain.
so far my fave is the song written for jen by robin thicke… but that’s because i love jen’s vocals, especially when she’s motivated to sing with musical subtlety as she did when she performed ‘imagine’ on AI. i’m looking forward to hearing the finished recorded version.
‘if this isn’t love’ is catchy and like pocketbook should give her some crossover appeal.
it’s good to see jen take some calculated risks, but in the end, what’ll work for jen is that… she is undeniably… well… vocally, JEN.
’smartcookie’ is right. while fantasia’s unique vocals have always been front and center… it’s now becoming clear that in today’s music biz… jen’s vocals are uniquely recognizable as well. and i for one, find that refreshing.
Gwen, you can listen to the JH/Fantasia duet here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LDkqLj4f8A