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Album: Ella Henderson - 'Chapter One'
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I think it's because Glow's pre-orders were lacking so they delayed it until it picked up. If they really wanted to do something for it, they shoulda made her perform it tomorrow...
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IKR...
I guess they're gonna use XF to promote single #3. I mean if she get to perform only 1 time this season I'd rather see her perform Empire / Pieces than Glow..
I don't think the album REALLY need any promo from the show (even if it wouldn't hurt...).
I could be wrong but the pre-orders look promising so far.
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She tweeted yesterday about 2 hidden acoustic bonus tracks!!
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Originally posted by derf1990
She tweeted yesterday about 2 hidden acoustic bonus tracks!!
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I guess it's about Rockets and Give Your Heart Away...
The tracks are gone when the album is officially released on iTunes' !
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She tweeted yesterday about 2 hidden acoustic bonus tracks!!
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All acoustic tracks are gone from iTunes here
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Review - A deliciously accomplished debut album!
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When Ella Henderson walked onto The X Factor stage for her very first audition, I instantly knew that she wasn’t just your average X Factor contestant.
Admittedly, she was robbed of the crown during the 2012 series of The X Factor, with James Bloody Arthur going on to get it, but Ella’s debut album ‘Chapter One’ shows that winning the show actually means naff all…
James Arthur won the competition in Ella’s year. He went on to release an average album, had a bad attitude, and then got dropped.
Ella on the other hand, quietly left the competition and went away to start work on her debut album and for almost 2 years, we heard very little from her, but we never forgot her. With a lot of X Factor contestants, if they’re out of sight, they’re out of mind.
However, earlier this year, Ella Henderson returned with a BANG with her debut single, ‘Ghost’ which has penetrated our eardrums at every single turn. It has been lauded all over the radio and TV, and we’re not complaining, as it was a brilliant debut single.
Glow is a great follow up to her debut single as well, and will no doubt to go on to have amazing success, but I was more interested in ‘Chapter One’.
Ella has put her name to every single song on the album as a co-writer (well, aside from Glow, but we shan’t throw her under the bus for that). She’s taken her time, she’s gone away and really thought about her direction, and she’s made sure that her album was perfect before releasing it. And, it is not much short of perfect.
Many are quick to say that Ella is the next Leona Lewis, but she isn’t. If there’s anything that Chapter One shows us, it’s that Ella is not just ANOTHER imprint of The X Factor juggernaut. She can stand on her own two feet, she can produce a spectacular album, and if anything, this year’s X Factor contestants need to take a note or two from Ella. Just because you’ve come from The X Factor, it doesn’t mean you have to go releasing a pile of **** every 12 months.
Ella’s elimination from the competition dominated the 2012 show, and it’s probably one of the reasons we never forgot her.
When I first heard Chapter One, I was quick to skip over Ghost and Glow as I’ve heard them both a million and one times.
The likes of Empire, Hard Work, and Give Your Heart Away show off Ella’s KILLER vocals.
One of the tracks that I’m particularly obsessed with is ‘Pieces’. It makes quite a change from the ballady-type tracks on the album, and it shows that Ella can really blast out those choruses. Once you listen to ‘Pieces’, it’s a chorus you’ll not stop signing all day.
‘Mirror Man’ is an interesting track, as it has a brilliant retro/Motown feel to it, but with a modern and contemporary twist, about her vain former lover.
‘Somebody told me they saw you with her / They even called out my name thinking I was that girl / She wears the same kind of make-up and the same coloured hair / She’s a wannabe me and she’s got it down to the clothes I wear / You can try to replace me and start all over again but what you just don’t understand is you had it right the first time, but you weren’t satisfied,” Ella scorns on ‘The First Time’, which shows us once again that if you’re an ex-lover of Ella’s, then you’re probably going to get it in the neck.
What we forget about Ella is that she is only 18 years old. Her album comes across as something a much older singer would release. Ella has helped to write all the tracks, so I know that she wanted the album to sound a particular way, and I appreciate that. Even when she auditioned for The X Factor with her original song ‘Missed’, I knew she wasn’t just an average teenage singer. She always seemed to have an old head on young shoulders. In fact, the studio version of ‘Missed’, which is included on the album is still just as special.
The production on the album is brilliant, and the whole collection is polished and a PERFECT debut album.
The only problem is that with such an amazing album, Ella is going to have to go away and try to top it with her next album, and I’m sure she can manage it.
Ella doesn’t seem to rush things and will only release things as and when she’s ready, so don’t be expecting an album every year. Ella Henderson is more about quality, over quantity. But quantity comes in the form of single choices, as there’s many tracks which could serve as successful singles for Ella, especially the deliciously catchy ‘Pieces’.
She’s only 18, and she’s got a MASSIVE future ahead of her. The only thing I will say is that one or two of the ballads aren’t strong enough, but that’s the only bad note I have on the album, and trust me, that’s a good thing.
It’s going to be a hard week for Ella as she’s up against Jessie J’s ‘Sweet Talker’, which is released on the same day!
You can pre-order ‘Chapter One’ right here, and it’ll be available to instantly download as of Monday, October 13.
Tracks to listen to: Empire, Mirror Man, Pieces, The First Time, Rockets
Score: 4.5/5
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Ella was supposed to perform in France yesterday... but she never showed up.
I remember she tweeted a few ago saying she was coming in France.
It's really f*cked up.
Her team could've at least tweeted something, some people went there just to see her.
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Album: Chapter One
#8 United Kingdom
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Album: Chapter One
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Just on pre-orders - that's impressive.
I'm so excited for this to be released at midnight tonight
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Ella Henderson: Chapter One album review - "A superb debut"
"Whoever or whatever you wrote that song about, those words hit a chord with everyone," Mel B told a 16-year-old Ella Henderson after her first audition on The X Factor back in 2012. "Your songwriting is so clever it made me go into my own little world." From the get-go Ella wasn't your average TV talent show contestant. She came to the series with an identity, a voice and a solid set of songwriting skills that set her apart from the big personalities and popstar wannabes.
It's what made her shock elimination later in the series that year's biggest talking point. How many contestants who finish sixth even get a glance from a major record label afterwards? Nikitta Angus or Rachel Hylton anyone? But Ella found herself at the centre of a tabloid-touted 'bidding war'. She remained loyal to the show, opting for Simon Cowell's Syco label, and was given two years to develop her sound. It was a decision that has benefited her debut album Chapter One tenfold.
See, for all the exposure and supposed career guarantee that winning The X Factor offers, more often than not the winner's album suffers from a rush release to capitalise on the public's fickle interest. Nevertheless, Henderson found herself in the enviable position of being able to select a handful of top-line songwriters to co-write her self-described "open diary" with - and as lead single 'Ghost' proved, the public had been sat waiting patiently to flick through.
Of course, Henderson penning a belter with Ryan Tedder on 'Ghost' obviously helped recapture a majority of that public affection; its Americana stomp and rootsy tone marching it straight to the top of the chart. That soul, though, is one that continues throughout the rest of the album. 'Glow' (the only track Henderson didn't have a hand in writing) is ethereal and enchanting, while the mountainous 'Empire' hears her build both her romantic relationship, and the song, to a lofty climax. Ella's vocal performance never feels like it falls short of the towering production; it peaks and breaks at just the right moments for maximum impact.
While Chapter One sees Ella team up with pop stalwarts such as Tedder, Steve Mac and TMS, rather surprisingly, hip-hop gurus like Babyface, Salaam Remi and Al Shux have also had a hand. The latter helms the prowling 'Mirror Man'; Ella's swipe at a vain ex that hears her voice simmer over strolling guitar riffs swaggering out of the '60s. In the same vein, 'Hard Work' is a swaying throwback ballad with soft backing coos, while 'The First Time' hears Ella slip into light R&B-pop that echoes Leona Lewis's debut Spirit.
Elsewhere, 'Rockets' helps break up the ballads with its smooth beats and sugary chorus, but Chapter One ends with the beginning of Ella's career. Here, her first audition 'Missed' has been delicately polished up by producers Jamie Scott and Toby Smith into a poignant finale. Ariose, heartfelt and remarkably perceptive for a songwriter at the dawn of her career, it has finally found its rightful place on a superb debut worthy of its sentiment.
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4/5
Coming for that critical acclaim
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Why isn't this being released in the US?
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Empire and Pieces are smash hit materials
Does anyone have the feeling that Ella sounds kinda similar to Miley in the beginning of Pieces?
Give Your Heart Away is a catchy song, but it sounds too pop for me, like sth Demi could sing
I also adore The First Time
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No you can't fake love
Love ain't a game you play
You played me from the start
It starts to end today
Today I've had enough
Enough to give you up
I'm gonna find a place
A place where you can't get me
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Empire and Pieces are smash hit materials
Does anyone have the feeling that Ella sounds kinda similar to Miley in the beginning of Pieces?
Give Your Heart Away is a catchy song, but it sounds too pop for me, like sth Demi could sing
I also adore The First Time
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Empire could have an AMAZING music video... not sure about pieces but it's radio friendly.
According to some Ella sound like : Leona, Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Xtina.... Miley ! To me she just sounds like... Ella !
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Why isn't this being released in the US?
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Porbably because they're waiting to promote her well there before dropping the album...
Ghost wasn't even a moderate hit there, I think they're gonna send her back and make her do a lot of promo performances...
It would flop if released rn.
It's not unusual for British artists to release their albums in Europe and then in the US.
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Originally posted by Sept
Empire and Pieces are smash hit materials
Does anyone have the feeling that Ella sounds kinda similar to Miley in the beginning of Pieces?
Give Your Heart Away is a catchy song, but it sounds too pop for me, like sth Demi could sing
I also adore The First Time
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Give Your Heart Away and Pieces have the same booming Miley esque chorus and Pieces also has the obligatory pop "oh oh oh", so I don't see how that is less pop. Demi's signature hits don't sound like either of them, they sound more like Ghost/Glow.
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