Meet BANKS…the freshest face in R&B!
Hailing from the city of angels and boasting a sound that has the likes of Ellie Goulding billing her one of 2014’s more promising breakout acts, last year saw her join The Weeknd on his headlining Fall 2013 stage tour, in support of her September 10th release ‘London‘.
This week, the ‘Brain‘ belle took to BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to deliver a performance set to see her win over R&B lovers far and wide, taking on Aaliyah‘s 1998 classic ‘Are You That Somebody.’
Listen below…
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OMG, one of the best new acts of 2013. I need her full length.
Lana still number 1 singless?
Is Warrior gold yet?
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Arrrggggggghhhhh Banks is on Grape Juice. Hell f***** yeah!!!!
Ok who the f*** is she and why did she slay my life.
I spat out my cereal when I saw her on her, you fools better give her the Rita treatment!
She nailed it.
Wait a f****** moment?! I know Miss Thing didn’t just make me wanna download this s***! I know she did not! Omfg Rosie tell me more about her.
Not f***** Banks on f***** TGJ! What kind of epicness?
*Faints.
I’m not even dealing right now.
Somebody hold me.
Not Queen Banks on That Grape Juice though. Who put y’all onto her?
My heart! My f****** heart!
BANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is happening? First Beyonce’s surprise album and now TGJ starts covering Banks! My p**** was not ready! It was the f*** not! Oh s***, what’s air though. Like what the f*** is oxygen?
At this point is obvs to see who they’re backing this year.
Rita
Elijah
Keyshia
Jason Derulo
August
Brandy
Banks
I can’t see them adding anyone else to their list 2bh.
It always changes by the middle of the year, their biased asses will go into overdrive on somebody else if Rita flops. Two years ago it was Willow and then they stopped covering her as soon as Rita came along so the same will happen here.
You’re deluded as all f*** if you think they’ll stop with Rita, they basically broke her over here so I don’t see why they would randomly stop forcing her down our throats.
You forgot about Onika.
David was asking about Anonymous J on twitter last week so you should probably add to her that list.
@NowUCiMe Kiiii, he asked about Mila and didn’t give her her own thread?
Uh huh, I thought they would start covering her after but there was nothing. She must suck.
Who?
Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Yes sis, But no shade.. Its pretty cute!
Banks is everything. I have been waiting for TGJ to cover this girl for the longest time. She absolutely killed it, and “This is What it Feels Like” is one of the best songs of last year. Banks will take over, and rightfully so.
Your list is wrong. TGJ loves Gaga and Lana too so it’s going to be Gaga, Lana, Rita, Elijah, Gimmicknika, Brandy, Trey, August, Jason, Ariana and if she’s lucky Jojo.
who cares???
Molly sis please, you know how much Ci loves them that’s why she gave them all those interviews last year.
Molly are you sure you’re a part of the Squad? Grape Juice be the main ones going hard for Princess.
Why are you acting like it matters who TGJ does or doesn’t cover? No shade, but I don’t get it.
It’s because they’re the biggest black music blog that has all the stans in one place so if your fave is trying to get some support from black people it’s good to have them here.
Stop kissing ass damn
They have the best comment section so labels use them to introduce their newbies to the existing stans.
They’re really biased but they know how to break small or international acts who nobody really cares about. They’re impact is weak when it comes to established singers but they’re really good at making new or local acts look really big ie JLS, Rita, Sevyn etc.
They basically are the reason anybody knows who Rita or Alexandra is over here.
Her voice is ugly #flop
Death at this coming from a Kesha stan.
Death at Lana getting outshined by Lorde
Borde is a nobody outside of North America and Australia, so you’re wrong
Queen Aaliyah is rolling in her grave!!!
Meh. Her voice is too whiny for this song.
so i guess it was a fail didn’t bother to watch.
She did this song no justice sounding like a llama
@1DYourLife They can be super messy and tacky at times but they never lie when they report news so some of the stans want their faves to be covered here because they get millions of hits a month. If King Zayn went solo and wanted to be RandB singer it would help if they gave him ‘The Rita Treatment’ and that’s when they give you five or six threads a day and talk about you all day on facebook to give you promo.
Right now they’re doing it for this singer called Keyshia Cole but they did it for Miguel and another singer called Elijah and sometimes do it for Ciara when she has music out.
Why do you call it The Rita Treatment when they did it for Miguel first?
Kinda unfair to call it the Rita treatment when they go in for Beyonce more, don’t you think.
I did, her voice irritates me to be honest. The song suits people with smooth tones not whiny tones.
Makes sense I guess.
They’re the only web page that can get 400 comments on threads about irrelevant people like Kelly. One time they did a threads on Diamonds and it got 2,000 comments even though they don’t like her.
LMAO I remember that Diamonds post. I was only lurking though because someone on Twitter was talking about it. I didn’t start commenting until a year ago.
Although most of the comments here are the same 20 or so people fighting with some no-avatar trolls spread in the mix.
That was for Molly. I clicked the wrong reply button lol.
@1D>>YourLife They get the most comments and interviews out of all the R&B/Hip-Hop music blogs, that’s all it is really.
If you don’t compare this to Aaliyahs version you will see she did a commendable job.
cute cover. Totally forgot about this song. Aaliyah’s songs are so forgettable
Crazy Kesha was right to call it TRT because they broke Rita here, they DIDN’T break Beyonce so why would it be called TBT.
Not you acting like Tamar would be where she is today with The Skorpion Show and TGJ.
She sounds great, but I HATE this cover. Aaliyah is nearly un-coverable because her voice is so smooth that it just grates on my to hear anyone with a dissimilar tone sing her songs.
Im so sick of these Lana stans acting like Lana is a threat that b**** is so f****** basic she’ll have no longevity her next album will flop worse then basic instinct same goes for Mariah. Kesha just scored her 4 th number 1 hit this year shes above Lana know that.
LMAO f** bye. Why isn’t Warrior gold yet? Why did BTD’s rerelease outsell it on its first week? Has it even sold 1 million worldwide? Can it even outsell Paradise?
It’s 2014, no one cares about Kesha anymore. Your fave remains a local, bulimic, fridge shaped, Dr. Luke s****, Pitbull feature artist.
That was for this stupid b**** Rosie.
Omfg I CANNOT with this effortlessly slayed version! I have NEVER heard of her and am now checking for her. My goodness SO unique. YASSSSSS. the laugh at the end PRICELESS she KNOW she just killed it…
@1D>>>YourLife This is a prime example of why people want their favs to be covered here babe.
Omfg, ok I now I get it.
I get what you lot are saying and that but I think it’s a p*** take that TGJ get the amount of views that they get and don’t support any British artists aside from Rita when they’re British themselves.
Erm, they did the same thing for JLS, Alexandra, Leona and Mike Hough so what do you mean?
All I’m saying is that when Katy B needed promo they aired her and bent over backwards to make Rita happen in America even though Katy is better than her.
Katy is local so why would they help her?
But sis, nobody knew who your fav was in my country until TGJ got behind her.
Basically.
I don’t really care about anybody else IIBH. As long as Sam and David promote Aston and Mike I’m happy, eff the rest.
This girl will slay the market if promoted correctly
QUEEN AALIYAH LIVES!
I still embrace new female artists and all but no one can ever replace what that young woman did to me. Her signature look, moves and vocals gave me LIFE!
R.I.P to my #1 favorite female artist of all time AALIYAH!
This was very good. Her vocals are scratchy & pitchy but it sounds good.
Scratchy & Pitchy vocals are the new style of singing these days…
She truly was one in a million.
i really like banks, she’s like the female “the weeknd” but i’m not a fan of her cover i prefer rnb vibes for “are you that somebody”
Meh, too Lorde/singer-songwriter for me.
I think I’ll pass.
Don’t care for the cover but she has a nice voice
shows that aaliyah was in a league of her own no one can emulate her!!!
About time. I love her. If you like her you guys should check out her twin vanessa elisha
I guess I’m in the minority, so I’ll keep my opinion to myself.
Nothing that you can’t find on youtube imo. It was good, but nothing that’ll make be download it or check into her.
I don’t know what y’all hearing, but these’s nothing R&B about this chic other than the song she’s covering.
Sadly, Aaliyah didn’t do many LIVE performaces of this major hit. But I recall it being the jam of the summer of 98.
Mixed reviews I see!
It was ok/cute, I don’t know her and have never heard of he until now,
Im just glad there are people keeping Aaliyah alive through music!!!
She was Thee IT girl!!!
This was cute.
Its nothing I would rush to purchase…..
The first 20 comments were just pretty much doing the most fagging out over this!
Cute. She can have it. But it really was the fact that I loved the song so much when the Aaliyah sung it.
Love the song, but not the other two! Hit and Miss. She almost had me sold!