Ella Mai - Ella Mai

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Ella Mai - Ella Mai
Ella Mai - Ella Mai

Ella Mai Ella Mai

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The perfectly fine debut from the London R&B singer Ella Mai, offers a grip of 90s R&B, snappy jams without sounding like a pastiche. Features H.E.R., Chris Brown and John Legend

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Catalog details about Ella Mai

  • Artist
    Ella Mai
  • Label
    10 Summers Records, Interscope Records ‎– B0029190-01
  • Format
    Vinyl, LP, Album
  • Orig. Release
    2018
  • Origin
    US
  • Genre
    Neo Soul, Contemporary R&B
  • Condition
    Sealed, New vinyl
  • EAN13
    0602577039942
  • Reference
    MV-1020-1

Ella Mai - Ella Mai in details

The British singer-songwriter Ella Mai has found huge success in the States. Handpicked by behemoth hip-hop producer DJ Mustard via Instagram, her schmaltzy, throwback-style R&B track "Boo’d Up" this year made her the first UK artist to top the US R&B charts since 1992 (the last was Lisa Stansfield’s All Woman).

As a result, Mai’s debut album does feel distinctly American, foregoing the UK’s current love of afrobashment and garage for a sparkling sound that nostalgically nods to 90s favourites. That is, bar the distinctly English-accented, spoken-word interjections, where she announces each letter of her name with a different definition (“E” is for “emotion”, etc), until on Close she spells out, a little cloyingly, “I am Ella Mai”.

At its best the music coos with lyrical assuredness and Janet Jackson-style sexiness (Shot Clock boasts intoxicating production

and delicate intonations), but while it’s a cohesive set, a lot of the tracks fail to stick in the memory. The Chris Brown-featuring Whatchamacallit, which lauds how fun cheating can be, is difficult to justify. A decent debut, then, but with Mai’s rich voice you can’t help feeling that it could have been stratospheric. Instead, it fails to innovate, and all feels a little beige.

A1 Emotion 0:12
A2 Good Bad 3:49
A3 Dangerous 4:39
A4 Sauce 3:04
A5 Whatchamacallit 3:00
A6 Cheapshot 4:01
A7 Shot Clock 3:21
A8 Boo’d Up 3:59
B1 Everything 3:01
B2 Own It 4:11
B3 Run My Mouth 2:35
B4 Gut Feeling 3:56
B5 Trip 3:34
B6 Close 4:12
B7 Easy 4:32

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