I'm seeing this is #25 on New Music Friday?  Nice to see it got a spot that high. 

3 hours ago, rockettoast said:

I'm seeing this is #25 on New Music Friday?  Nice to see it got a spot that high. 

Wish the streams were a bit better... 56k so far. I wonder if she has any plans to promote this?

I loves me some JoJo but this song isn't really doing anything for me… I've listened to it a few times now and it's just not clicking. 
 

I'm listening to Anxiety now and prefer that sound to Porcelain. 

On 10/5/2024 at 3:55 AM, ccfan007 said:

Wish the streams were a bit better... 56k so far. I wonder if she has any plans to promote this?

+78k streams on Friday after the NMF playlisting. Hope she gets on more pop/uptempo playlists over the week.

On 10/4/2024 at 5:24 PM, Rocket said:

I am obsessed with this.

 

Its a shame she doesn't have a bigger machine behind her pushing this song, because it deserves to be a hit.

Even when she did have a major machine behind her they weren't trying to help her out

I hope we get a MV for this. Would love to see her serving some cute choreo 

I love this! Just heard it randomly come on my Spotify. Best thing from her since good to know 

7 hours ago, Edibles. said:

Even when she did have a major machine behind her they weren't trying to help her out

I'm still so confused as to what happened, she followed that CEO guy from Atlantic to interescope to Warner and yet she didn't get a push at all even though he liked her? And now she left him? Like someone explain 

25 minutes ago, Gabe² said:

I'm still so confused as to what happened, she followed that CEO guy from Atlantic to interescope to Warner and yet she didn't get a push at all even though he liked her? And now she left him? Like someone explain 

She revealed in her book that he supported her R&B roots and was key in the release of Good to Know + deluxe + acoustic + December Baby, but the pandemic killed all kind of commercial success she could've achieved (plus another pop album she was going to release along with GTK) so Warner literally pulled the plug on her releases and financing stuff, so the last chance of label support was releasing Creature of Habit, which she never liked but compromised in exchange for financing a last project, which became Trying Not to Think About It... literally an album but branded as an EP because of money... a budget for promo or else was not greenlit, since the song never saw commercial success. Aaron got in a position where he could lose his job over him keeping on supporting her vision + losing money. Since it was either her or him leaving Warner she found out she was better off alone and not compromising her vision via singing other people's stuff she didn't like of feel her own. 

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2 hours ago, x æ a-xii said:

She revealed in her book that he supported her R&B roots and was key in the release of Good to Know + deluxe + acoustic + December Baby, but the pandemic killed all kind of commercial success she could've achieved (plus another pop album she was going to release along with GTK) so Warner literally pulled the plug on her releases and financing stuff, so the last chance of label support was releasing Creature of Habit, which she never liked but compromised in exchange for financing a last project, which became Trying Not to Think About It... literally an album but branded as an EP because of money... a budget for promo or else was not greenlit, since the song never saw commercial success. Aaron got in a position where he could lose his job over him keeping on supporting her vision + losing money. Since it was either her or him leaving Warner she found out she was better off alone and not compromising her vision via singing other people's stuff she didn't like of feel her own. 

Ugh. This is so sad to read :( the uphill battle that she is still fighting.

Need to purchase the book to support her.

Thanks for recapping though!

That's one thing that's so inspiring about JoJo compared to other artist is her resilience and the fact that she loves music that much she still battles on no matter how many times she gets put down

so is she independent now? 

5 hours ago, x æ a-xii said:

She revealed in her book that he supported her R&B roots and was key in the release of Good to Know + deluxe + acoustic + December Baby, but the pandemic killed all kind of commercial success she could've achieved (plus another pop album she was going to release along with GTK) so Warner literally pulled the plug on her releases and financing stuff, so the last chance of label support was releasing Creature of Habit, which she never liked but compromised in exchange for financing a last project, which became Trying Not to Think About It... literally an album but branded as an EP because of money... a budget for promo or else was not greenlit, since the song never saw commercial success. Aaron got in a position where he could lose his job over him keeping on supporting her vision + losing money. Since it was either her or him leaving Warner she found out she was better off alone and not compromising her vision via singing other people's stuff she didn't like of feel her own. 

I feel like if we got the album "When Love Hurts" / "Good Thing" were originally from before she leaned back into R&B this could've been a whole different conversation.

6 hours ago, x æ a-xii said:

She revealed in her book that he supported her R&B roots and was key in the release of Good to Know + deluxe + acoustic + December Baby, but the pandemic killed all kind of commercial success she could've achieved (plus another pop album she was going to release along with GTK) so Warner literally pulled the plug on her releases and financing stuff, so the last chance of label support was releasing Creature of Habit, which she never liked but compromised in exchange for financing a last project, which became Trying Not to Think About It... literally an album but branded as an EP because of money... a budget for promo or else was not greenlit, since the song never saw commercial success. Aaron got in a position where he could lose his job over him keeping on supporting her vision + losing money. Since it was either her or him leaving Warner she found out she was better off alone and not compromising her vision via singing other people's stuff she didn't like of feel her own. 

It's crazy that even on her own label, in a semi-independent state and relying on Warner only for distribution, she still had to deal with the same hurdles and technicalities that fully signed artists deal with... 

5 hours ago, XtinaStripped said:

I feel like if we got the album "When Love Hurts" / "Good Thing" were originally from before she leaned back into R&B this could've been a whole different conversation.

Yeah I think that not releasing Good Thing in 2015 along with the house album (they say it was called Far From Heaven but can't confirm) was the biggest misstep post-Blackground in terms of her achieving mainstream success again. But it was all bad timing back then too... Aaron signed her to Atlantic, then left, and she was abandoned and left to work with people who never understood her vision... so they literally threw When Love Hurts at her as a "no brainer, smash hit" that she hates, because she could not believe how that faceless and basic song was her reintroduction in the music scene after all those years in the shelf. Plus her dad passing away affected her so much she did not identify with those umptempo songs anymore...

4 hours ago, Truth Teller said:

It's crazy that even on her own label, in a semi-independent state and relying on Warner only for distribution, she still had to deal with the same hurdles and technicalities that fully signed artists deal with... 

The thing is that making music costs money so her projects not doing well comercially eventually put her position in a label at risk... But label people "know better" in picking possible hits to carry those projects afloat. Since most of the songs they've chosen as singles along her career didn't do anything on the charts (How to Touch a Girl, Disaster, When Love Hurts, Sabotage, Creature of Habit) let's just say she was better off flopping on her own terms with songs she truly believed rather than listening to a label A&R again.

she deserves this to be a smash hit so bad. how ironic would it be that her first real release of music she wants to put out becomes huge as opposed to what all the label execs have wanted her to do since mad love, i think she really believes in the new music and the EP will definitely put her back on, or at least have a moderate top 40 hit if it goes viral or something 

On 10/6/2024 at 11:29 PM, x æ a-xii said:

She revealed in her book that he supported her R&B roots and was key in the release of Good to Know + deluxe + acoustic + December Baby, but the pandemic killed all kind of commercial success she could've achieved (plus another pop album she was going to release along with GTK) so Warner literally pulled the plug on her releases and financing stuff, so the last chance of label support was releasing Creature of Habit, which she never liked but compromised in exchange for financing a last project, which became Trying Not to Think About It... literally an album but branded as an EP because of money... a budget for promo or else was not greenlit, since the song never saw commercial success. Aaron got in a position where he could lose his job over him keeping on supporting her vision + losing money. Since it was either her or him leaving Warner she found out she was better off alone and not compromising her vision via singing other people's stuff she didn't like of feel her own. 

Oh wow. You sold me on the book. I'm going to read it! 

I love this song
 

Looking forward to an album and hoping that this does well - she deserves it!!!

new version of this song drops tonight! jo put a countdown reminder on her instagram story

reimagined? Just sounds like a recording of a live version... she sounds good though.

 

I love this version! 
 

I'm still not feeling the single version so I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I love this!

She's always had a weird habit of dropping a song and then disappearing. I almost thought we were done with the Porcelain era.

 

I hope it's not too long until the EP announcement and release, and the tour. Her Instagram post about this said how she can't wait to sing this live and more soon. 

Thats good 

18 hours ago, ccfan007 said:

reimagined? Just sounds like a recording of a live version... she sounds good though.

transitive verb

: to imagine again or anew

especially : to form a new conception of : re-create

 

Reimagined definition! It literally went from an upbeat pop banger with a hip hop sample to a piano ballad. Couldn't be more clear that's reimagined lol.