When Coco Jones decided to sample her recent single "Taste" and insert Britney Spears' classic "toxic" she knew she was taking risks - some pop fans did offend. But for the Golden Singing R&B/pop star, these choices are the whole point of her debut album, i.e. Why not more?a classic R&B designed to embrace and surpass her breakthrough hits, the marvelous "ICU" of 2022.
Jones said in our latest episode: “I think this will wrinkle the feathers because of course it is so sacred.” Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. "But I also want to remind people that I have all these different effects because that's my life. So choose the side I like, but don't put me in a cage... Britney is an idol-but I, Specifically, the same way the Children of Destiny have given me a particular way. As Jones points out, she shares the background of the Disney Channel with Spear: “I’m researching around that world all girl. So I thought, "Should I be allowed to go through all my influence or traditional R&B?" Like, are there rules here that I don't know? ”
Elsewhere in the plot, Jones talks about performance balance (her in Peacock's bubble) music, escape from the trap of child stars, learn from mom's musical tastes, and more. To listen to the entire interview, get your podcast provider of choice here, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or play it on it. Some highlights are as follows:
Jones is more worried about the poppy feeling of “taste” than the spear sample. "My biggest fear is: Will my core people be angry with me?" she said. "Like, 'Hey, you're the 'ICU' girl. No, we're with you.' I just don't want to be discarded.
Jones’ mother was a crucial influencer and a demanding but supportive vocal coach of her childhood. “My mom taught me Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston,” she said. “I mean, she would pick the most challenging songs for me and I would be like, ‘Really, why? It’s the hardest song I’ve ever heard.’ She was like, “Well, if you can sing, you can sing.” "She was printing the lyrics and she stared at me like "continue." She paused the music when it wasn't real."
Her Disney Channel experience taught her professionalism but made her confused about her artistic identity. She said: “I will do any task in front of me, but I will do it well, but that doesn’t mean you are.
After being left behind by Hollywood record labels, Jones faces a crossroads and tests her resilience. "I'm fighting for my life because music is my life and that doesn't work," Jones said. "It's very difficult, very scary, but what do you know? I don't know any journeys that have barely any very lows. I hope someone can look up my interviews, continue the journey of finding my dreams, and feel better about the timing of all of this."
"ICU" gathered together almost effortlessly. "I was doing a bop there," she recalled. "I wanted to do something fake, something cute, something sexy, something to the girls. And then I was so excited to hear the song, and I was like, 'Oh, skip.'." "I kept playing other tracks, but I just kept thinking about that track that was very different from everything I asked (producer) to play. I went back to it and I was really honest and free. We wrote the song in 20 minutes. I wouldn't even lie."
She loves working on the bedroom-themed Luther Vandross sampled track "Aeomg". "We're writing that, it's so funny," Jones said. "It's so funny because we're all there talking about sex. It's so funny. It's like, what's going on? This is our job, is this what we do? We need to have a few late night songs."
Jones hopes to be a role model for young artists one day. "I want to have a blueprint where people can look at it, like, 'Oh, that's the way Coco Jones is.'" "Maybe the next young black girl might say, 'Okay, she does that. I can do that.' The way I learn Beyoncé...I want to be so transparent, so vocal that someone can look at me and if they personally don't know me, then maybe I can guide them somehow."
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