Oh that's not-

the cover…this random rebrand into being a quirky alt girlie is sending me 

The cover She's slowly morphing into Lola Young

Track 8: bhenzze

Both January 19 and Benz are cute but nothing major, even for a mixtape, where most artists grab more freedom than during normal releases, it seems more like a harddrive drop than something that needs to expand her discography.

I also don't get why the already released tracks aren't on it. Like Chat fits perfectly with the pre-released tracks on this mixtape so far

What the **** is this 

Chat, at least, could have saved this project 

57 minutes ago, Dolce Vita said:

the cover…this random rebrand into being a quirky alt girlie is sending me 

no cuz fr

5 hours ago, Everasking said:

Well this is unsurprising at this point- I do hope the OG third album gets to see the light of day eventually!

Female Intuition
All Girls Go to Heaven
Stupid Dumb ft. Ty Dolla $ign
Mama Told Me
Bad Woman
Disappointed
Look at My Body ft. Shygirl
Speechless
Dangerous Conversations
All Over You
Vitamins
This One Is for You

gone but not forgotten...

great, so now she has two scrapped albums with complete tracklists leaked (and none of the songs), first Imagination and now this 😭
 

5 hours ago, Everasking said:

Well this is unsurprising at this point- I do hope the OG third album gets to see the light of day eventually!

Female Intuition
All Girls Go to Heaven
Stupid Dumb ft. Ty Dolla $ign
Mama Told Me
Bad Woman
Disappointed
Look at My Body ft. Shygirl
Speechless
Dangerous Conversations
All Over You
Vitamins
This One Is for You

gone but not forgotten...

The way they even prepared a press release for this fff.

 

Quote

This album is not a reinvention, but a reintroduction. Almost a decade in the music industry, Mabel, born Mabel Alabama-Pearl McVey, is entering a new phase of her career with her upcoming album titled 'Female Intuition'. But this isn't a phase that comes with a costume, a concept or an expiration date. Instead, the 27-year-old just wants the world to know her better. "There's a female pressure to reinvent ourselves and to be perfect and I don't wanna do that this time. As an artist, I feel I've already been various versions of myself and have enjoyed being creative and open to change. It was experimentation, it was a form of self expression. But now, the best expression for me is, I want to go out and be myself." she says. Having topped charts with hits like 'Don't Call Me Up', 'My Lover' and 'Fine Line', won Best Female Solo at the BRITs and cemented herself as one of the UK's brightest popstars, in the year of her Saturn's Return - as her mum reminds her - Mabel's emerging from a year of intense growth and transformation. "I signed my record deal when I was 19, So you don't know who you are [at that age], even though you think that you do." Reflecting on the last 12 months, she says, "I think I've grown the most as a person in the last year, more than I have in my whole 20s. I still felt like a teenager, but I've kind of 'become a woman'," she laughs. "I know who my people are now, and I think that's reflected in my artistry as well." This album is borne out of and explores that clarity of purpose, drive and intuition, both through the lens of Mabel as a young woman but also dedicated to the women in her life who support and guide her. Themes of embracing our inner contradictions, allowing ourselves to be imperfect, dealing with disappointment, but also luxuriating in our own passions and sensuality too, it's an ode to divine femininity in the modern world. Inspired in part by the concept of Venus, as a channel through which Mabel encompasses every facet of the feminine experience - a guiding force that pulls her out of darker days, helps her find her voice and leads her to healthy boundaries, balance and love for herself and others. This project is both universal and detailed in its study of what it means to be a woman today - the goods, the bads and the inbetweens. "I just kept thinking about me when I'm at my best and me when I'm at my worst, there is power in that," Mabel explains. "Connecting to every woman that's played a role in my life and making all of them one embodiment. I see her and also I am her." Lead single 'Look At My Body' is an unrepentant anthem of this, flipping the narrative of being underestimated based on how you look. Calling on London's queen of sexual reclamation Shygirl as the perfect partner-in-crime, Mabel unpacks, "Shygirl and I were talking about female beauty and sexuality and what a weapon you are when you understand how to use and control that. I was a late bloomer. But when I did bloom, probably at like 18, I was like, I have got this! Not that I need to explain myself but I do think that sometimes I have hidden behind that, I've used this powerful thing and people have thought that it was 100% of my make up… I think the new power in my physical presence is that I don't let it bother me. I can do both. I can be both. I am both." 'Bad Woman' is an infectiously retro-infused banger rewriting the rules of femininity too. Reclaiming what it is to be 'good' or 'bad' with no apology, she sings on the chorus, 'If you make money in the daytime but not a lady when you dance, go on and catch a body tonight, if you're a bad woman say that's what I am'. "This idea that we are contradictory, I'm both incredibly introverted, like really simple social situations will scare the **** out of me. But I can also stand on stage in front of 70,000 people and shake my ass and feel great. I'm masculine, feminine, all these things that I thought I had to pick. I'd like to think I'm a good girlfriend that my boyfriend can take me home to his mom. But also there's a side of me that wants to go out and get messy with my friends. Does that make me a bad woman?" Mabel explains. Taking that tension and placing it over a thumping Miami bass heartbeat, punctuated by raunchy feel-good sound effects, makes for a club-ready uprising of a song. "I'm bringing leg warmers back!" she laughs. Coming from a hefty musical household, Mabel grew up with hanging out at the studio as her after school pastime. She remembers being in a session with the Sugababes and her dad, Cameron McVey, and being treated like an adult, giving her A&R two cents worth as a child. While she set off on her first tour with her mother Neneh Cherry at just three months old. So while music is very much her birthright, for the majority of her own career she's been determined to do things her own way and carve her own path, often with a clear separation between her family and her career, almost like church and state. These days she has a different take on it, and for this project, took an entirely new approach: "I think that when you are ignoring your intuition, and ultimately not living your truth, and also not happy, the people that are gonna call you out on it first are your family. And [for a long time] I didn't want to hear it… This time, I sat them down and said I'm going to make music and I want you to tell me what you think about everything. You're not going to love everything I do but I want you to police me on when you feel like I'm not being myself." Shepherded by the guard rails of those who know her best, the resulting palette of the record is an eclectic patchwork sum of Mabel's parts. From the glistening pop minds of Sweden's MXM on tracks like 'All Girls Go To Heaven' to the amapiano tinges sprinkled by afrobeats big hitter Magicsticks (Asake / Davido) on 'All Over You' or the sultry widescreen crooning of tracks like 'Vitamins', we're taken on a journey of who Mabel is through all the places she's been and come from. "I ended up making the first R&B section of the album here, which is obviously my home. And then in LA, where lots of my mum's family live, in Compton. So I was out there spending a lot of time with them. And then I ended up in Sweden, where I lived for 10 years, making music there for the first time since I left Sweden in 2015. And then I ended up making the last part of the album in Lagos. My family is Sierra Leonean but Lagos is like the LA of Africa now," she laughs. Being able to pay homage to and make music that harked back to her heritage felt like a special return of sorts, as the granddaughter of African Highlife musician Ahmadu Jah: "I always saw the cultural pull on [my grandfather]. He was proud and happy for us, but also so scared that we were losing the connection to his home. He's no longer with us. But oh my god, if I played him some of the records that I'd made in Lagos, he would be so proud. It's different to the music he was making but he could hear himself in it. I even found a video of him playing percussion and managed to make an interlude over that." It's an exhilaratingly fresh start for a popstar you might have thought you knew, at peace with holding a multitude of worlds in her hands and being guided by her own instincts and journey - not what she thinks other people want from her. Right now, that's prioritising "authenticity and realness and connection to myself," she resolves. "I've always weirdly been really confident in who I am. And then that kind of disappeared as a teenager and then just progressively got worse, the more successful I became. Intuition is that thing that I would probably have ignored quite a lot. But not now - it's a ******* superpower."

 

13 minutes ago, uh oh said:

great, so now she has two scrapped albums with complete tracklists leaked (and none of the songs), first Imagination and now this 😭
 

oh? not this- was Imagination pre-ALN? also what was its tracklist like? 

3 minutes ago, despy said:

oh? not this- was Imagination pre-ALN? also what was its tracklist like? 

It was the OG album title

 

1 minute ago, Supervillain said:

It was the OG album title

 

gosh Definition (Demo >>) & Shy were such bops! let me revisit ALN  

Available to pre-order now, on CD and cassette.

 

Not even a vinyl…

tbh january 19 was very cute and very reminiscent of ivy to roses, so it seems that for this mixtape she really did just go back to her roots. love me gente also sounds cute from the snippet and i know that im preferring this era over the throwaway singles she was releasing and was gonna put together on an album/playlist just to sell vinyls

2 hours ago, Supervillain said:

The way they even prepared a press release for this fff.

 

 

She really fell off. That tracklist had us all fooled, looking tight as hell. Now we're stuck with tracks that repeat cringy lines like, 'Only one month to my birthday, to the day,' oh, this isn't it, mama. 

4 hours ago, despy said:

oh? not this- was Imagination pre-ALN? also what was its tracklist like? 

imagination is aln, just the earlier version, which almost didn't include any of the tracks that we now have on aln, the known ones are:

 

Imagination (Intro)

You Can't Tell Me

Need

Trash (released by Little Mix)

Stop, Look, Listen

The Body

Love Song

Imagination

Who Hurt You

Heartless

Diamonds

Heartbreak Season

Don't Want You Back

Guilttrippin'

Misbehave

Bittersweet

 

She called it a mixtape on discord, makes even less sense all the songs she dropped aren't on it then...

lmao, to think female intuition was meant to be released last year 

Edited May 29, 20251 yr by teenagecraze

9 hours ago, Supervillain said:

The way they even prepared a press release for this fff.

 

 

damn imagine writing all of that just to shelve the album fff

january 19 is really good so I got a bit more hope for this  

 I - 

Edited May 30, 20251 yr by Bidi bidi bom bom

January 19 is cute.  

This is a whole mess tbh.

That press release about Female Intuition sounded so promising.

 

It better be released soon or I might have to cause some mayhem (out on iTunes) at the Polydor offices 

I'm finding her social media posts about this "rebirth" or whatever insufferable 💀 "You're not deserving of me / You're not deserving of my love" is hardly the peak of artistry and lyricism but go girl, give us something limp