Info JoJo's good to know live anniversary performance will be livestreamed on Youtube Saturday.

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I have no idea who she is...but based on the few seconds I listened...no thanks.
 

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I have no idea who she is...but based on the few seconds I listened...no thanks.
Understandable on both counts. I didn't know about her until two years ago via an Old Town Road derivative work. And to quote another song....she saved the best for last and pulled a Beethoven(Four measures of massive effectiveness).

One thing's for sure...no two performances are ever exactly the same with her.
 

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"good to know" is a short album, timing in just 34 minutes for the complete physical album. Within that time, she explores a very wide variety of themes and shows her and her producer's high ability to translate abstract thoughts into tangibly impactful notes.

Certain album tracks are continuously linked, which reminds me of Beethoven's Piano Concerto 5 and its second movement is linked with the third; then the Romantics like Mendelssohn took that a step further in his piano concertos.

The first three tracks markedly show the dark vices that had consumed her in the past. Bad Habits, So Bad, Pedialyte, and Comeback are tracks in that vein. As such, these tracks have explicit thoughts/lyrics.

Other tracks are far more reflective in nature. These tracks would be Small Things and Think About You.

Certain tracks are about relationships. These would be Man, Lonely Hearts, and Don't Talk Me Down.

Gold is the track I cannot quite comprehend yet.

The final track brings forth a feeling of personal touch and warmth not dissimilar to the finale of the Eroica Symphony by Beethoven. Seem like trend when people write homages for someone they respect/revere.

Being the fifth album release of her career, good to know marks another point of development in the battle-scarred career of JoJo's career.

My favorites are Lonely Hearts, Small Things, Proud(outro), and Pedialyte.

(I know I'm in an echo chamber but I'm a fanboy and not ashamed.)
 

Torn Mind

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oh, good God. That nasally voice is annoying. There are way better singers than her.
More pleasing tones, yes. I fancy Belinda Carlisle and Amy Grant more if it it's that.

Better singer though? WHile not Mariah or Whitney in terms of range, few possess the ability to be as agile and make it sound like a physical instrument like a violin is being played.

Never mind the X-factor and the primary reason I've accepted her as a sacred cow...and that is her natural compositional intuition.


Not better at composition, I'll bet, since that is the primary draw for me.
 

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More pleasing tones, yes. I fancy Belinda Carlisle and Amy Grant more if it it's that.

Better singer though? WHile not Mariah or Whitney in terms of range, few possess the ability to be as agile and make it sound like a physical instrument like a violin is being played.

Never mind the X-factor and the primary reason I've accepted her as a sacred cow...and that is her natural compositional intuition.


Not better at composition, I'll bet, since that is the primary draw for me.
I like Tarja Turunen's voice:

 
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Clocking in at 26 minutes, the concert was short and sweet, but the signatures were all there starting from the beginning. One thing she will never be is a rote record repeater; she is never at a loss for variations: adding notes, subtracting notes, modifying intonation, going higher, going lower.

The mods began as soon as the first track; Bad Habits was extended and changed lyrically from the album version.

Her performances always remind me a bit of a classical concerto for instrument, where the orchestra is clearly "set" while the soloist would have liberty to do whatever he wants. In this, certain sequences of tracks are transitioned immediately into the next without a break, and in different order than from the record. That obviously reminds me of Beethoven's fifth piano concerto when he linked the second movement with the third in it. Mendelssohn took that a step further and linked all movements together.

Indeed, the performances are like accompanied cadenzas of sorts.

After re-listening, there is a four-part structure to this concert. First 13 minutes, continuous track. Think About You is separated from the others. Gold is continuously transitioned into a cover of SWV's Rain on Me and then ends in another quick moment of silence. And it ends on the upbeat "In Your Room".