Attention!
Ciara is back and poised to smash with her first album in two years, ‘One Woman Army’.
Our friends over at MTV caught up with the ‘Ride’ singer at the premiere of her new movie ‘That’s My Boy’ yesterday, where she talked about the LP, its lead single ‘Sweat’, and the hitmakers she’s enlisted to craft her chart comeback.
Via MTV:
“It really is just me pouring my heart into the record, and I think my fans deserve that. I really had to be in a comfortable place, and I really am and I’m excited about it. That’s the beauty of music. Music is like really being able to express yourself. I wanted to make sure that I expressed myself in the best way that I could, and I let the music also be a healing process for me at points. There’s a lot of happy moments as well, so that’s what it’s about. That’s music.”
She added, “You laugh, you cry, you dance, you love, you hurt, you feel all kinds of things. That’s the beauty of music.”
Initially apprehensive about revealing the producers she’s been working with, saying only that the sound of ‘Army’ is “all about the new movement” and that she “worked with some people that are very fresh,” she eventually caved and announced that she’s been recording with long-time collaborator Tricky Stewart (‘Ride’) as well as the Underdogs duo Harvey Mason Jr. and Damon Thomas.
“Of course, the obvious, Tricky, he’s a part of my Epic family. We worked together. And Harvey and Damon, it’s our first time together and what we did was so special. They actually produced the title track, ‘One Woman Army,’ I can tell you that.”
Elaborating, she continued:
“I worked with some people that are very fresh, which I’m excited about. When it comes to artists, when it comes to writers, when it comes to producers, I really wanted to push. We pretty much reached out and worked with a lot of people that I’ve never worked with before, which is really fun.”
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Exciting stuff! For yours truly, the most salivating morsel of info comes in the form of her collaboration with The Underdogs. For, while renown for their R&B mid-tempo’s, the pair have the uncanny ability to switch up, as evidenced by their work on the Dreamgirls soundtrack and Chris Brown‘s ‘Turn Up The Music’. Here’s hoping the ‘Dogs, along with the other producers tapped for the project, have sprinkled enough magic to conjure up a body of work that resonates. From what we hear, they have.