Has anyone heard the new Jill Scott (nickalicious?)?

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It doesn't seem to be storming the airways even in Philadelphia, but I haven't been out much lately, so I might just be out of touch. Anyway, storming the airways is not the point, but I'd be interested in impressions. I've seen mixed reviews.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 10 October 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's 'eh'. She's nice and smart and good, but her producers let her down too often.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 11 October 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it's really boring compared to the first one. i don't remember a single thing about it.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 11 October 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotta agree. Too much predictability and nothing that sticks in my mind.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 October 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is a bummer cuz I was looking forward to this. She's becoming the female Musiq (with better chops) which is a pretty far step down from the female Bilal.

And wtf happened to him?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 October 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one critic's opinion (do not read if you hate me or the meta-category of ILXors who link to their own reviews)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty accurate, Begs. After I heard it, I thought I might've already heard it ifyaknowwhatimean.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. I loved the live album though, so I had hopes...DASHED ON THE ROCKS LIKE A TURTLE.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that the production on this record isn't good, it's just that A) Jazzy Jeff did such a good job with the first, it was a hard standard to live up to; B) this album (much like Cee-Lo's album from this year) are kinda marred with too-many-producer-ism, and it's unheterogenized her sound a little too far for the album to hold any momentum. There are moments on here though that are pretty killer.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

j.jeff only did a couple of traxxxxxxx on that first album though

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. I R DUNBASS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I stand by my overunheterogenousness stance though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, after hearing some good dancey stuff offa slsk (esp. the Theo Parrish "Slowly Surely" thing), I was kinda hoping she might push things HARDER. Like, of all the people doing shit today, she seems one of the only ones who might be able to handle "eclecticism" without it seeming forced. This album is like too much too different but also not enough not different enough.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Honestly though, after all the releases of the past month, I get the feeling I'm just too overwhelmed anymore to form solid opinions on anything.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit Matt, I just read your review...OTM. Esp. about "Spring Summer Feeling" seeming slapped-together.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone needs to push things harder.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the Theo Parrish "Slowly Surely" thing

ESSENTIAL.

― Ratchet (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Family Vacation" is great. The rest is, uh, THERE, I guess.

Jason King's (who likes it more than I do) wrote this about it:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0440/king.php

― chuck, Monday, 11 October 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Family Vacation" is great.

Please tell me this is about going to Ocean City, NJ.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, I meant "Family Reunion," not Vacation!

It might be the best song about green onions since Booker T and the MGs (not that it has much competition, admittedly.)

― chuck, Monday, 11 October 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Seconded on Slowly, Surely; which made its way onto repeat for a week and a half some years ago.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Her new album is kind of incredible.

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

(1) I disagree with everyone above about Beautifully Human, which has held up really well for me, and which I prefer to the first record (except there's nothing on it as good as "A Long Walk"). "Family Reunion" is great, though.

(2) The new album: all too credible. It sounds to me like what everyone who wrote above was hearing in Beautifully Human. Lack of distinction. Too many producers with disparate styles. Too lethargic. Generic sexxx-ups and generic whine-fests. Serious lack of telling, poetic detail like the green potato salad. (With maybe one exception: the pitch-perfect inflection on "I knew you was seein' other people. I was seeing other people.") It's not all bad, but it's not at all memorable. The last time I heard it was maybe a week ago, and I don't think I can hum a bar from anything other than the title song and "Crown Royal". Oh, yeah . . . "Hate On Me". The world needed another anti-hataz track.

― Vornado, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

FUCK JILL SCOTT

― dark side of the goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 14 November 2010 08:53 (fifteen years ago)

why rev? why?

― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 14 November 2010 13:31 (fifteen years ago)

never liked anything i've heard by her. her boring 3 bpm shit came on when i was crunk as fuck and i was not havin it

― dark side of the goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Okay, Jill's most recent album debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart? I didn't think she had a fanbase strong enough for that!

― DJP, Friday, 1 July 2011 13:59 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

"So Gone" is severely underrated on this board. Where is the love, people? It's not THAT hard to pretend Paul Wall's verse doesn't exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stuySQv7qw4

― Fetchboy, Monday, 17 June 2013 10:13 (twelve years ago)

http://p.twimg.com/A14UtJuCYAIiRGQ.jpg

― dylannn, Monday, 17 June 2013 10:30 (twelve years ago)

that's an unfortunate image

― r|t|c, Monday, 17 June 2013 12:57 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egN9MaUR-BY

only found this last year but i vow to make a point of basking in its gorgeous rays every summer hence

― r|t|c, Monday, 17 June 2013 12:59 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

"that's an unfortunate image"

Why? Two best looking women in pop music right now.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 August 2013 22:30 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

Real as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHyxrR0dxfo

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 20 March 2015 05:25 (eleven years ago)

Ooh, I wasn't familiar with this song until someone in the youtube comments pointed out it was previously recorded by Lorraine Ellison in 1969. "Stay With Me" is mind melting, so I had to check out her take on this song, and wow.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 20 March 2015 05:30 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Heard this in Starbucks this morning for the first time in well over ten years. Was feeling it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGz1XzV3DzM

Good jam.

― Austin, Saturday, 10 June 2017 21:25 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

goat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3477oiU7O0

"it's love (live)" (2001)

― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:05 (three years ago)

three years pass...

i know february might be too early to say this but album of the year imo

― a hoy hoy, Monday, 16 February 2026 09:24 (three months ago)

it's pretty good

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 February 2026 16:59 (three months ago)

otm xp

― Extended Mix, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 07:13 (three months ago)

yea it’s really great. “pressha” is incredible, her voice is so powerful throughout

the one song i am not fully sold on is “be great,” which is a bit too lizzo for me. but she deserves the cash she’ll get when it’s inevitably used in a billion commercials.

― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 12:14 (three months ago)

I've been playing it alongside the new Ari Lennox.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 13:21 (three months ago)

still need to hear the new ari

― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 15:48 (three months ago)

sublime tiny desk

― map, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 17:18 (three months ago)

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/g-s1-100820/jill-scott-tiny-desk-concert

― map, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 17:19 (three months ago)

yes the tiny desk is so excellent

great album too!

― dyl, Saturday, 21 February 2026 01:40 (three months ago)

Album of the year.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 February 2026 01:41 (three months ago)

Loving this album.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2026 15:13 (three months ago)

Good ol nickalicious! I hope he's out there stankin up somebody's hoobah

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 February 2026 15:16 (three months ago)

there are a few tracks on here i'm unsure about, but the highlights are excellent. loving "the math" in particular

― brains, washed (The Brainwasher), Monday, 23 February 2026 19:50 (three months ago)

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