Loading ...Last night, we checked up on the release date of Amerie’s Because I Love It, the R & B singer’s third album. Despite a) her attempts to pump up its pre-release cred with a mixtape and b) the fact that it’s one of the better R & B albums we’ve heard this year, its path toward store shelves in the U.S. has been fraught with delays. Sometime over the past few weeks, another one was introduced; the album, which was most recently scheduled for a July US release (it’s already out in the UK and Japan), is now coming out in the States on Aug. 21. Sure, it’s not Chinese Democracy, but this album’s been plagued with delays since we first heard “Take Control,” the album’s lead single, back in October 2006. After the jump, a timeline of our prolonged wait for Because I Love It’s Stateside arrival:
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A Please Release Me Special: The Amerie Album Is Still M.I.A. In The U.S.A.
Stuck On Repeat: We’re Sending You All (One Of) Our Linear Songs
Last week, we linked to fourfour’s exhaustive review of Amerie’s Because I Love It, which is allegedly coming out in the US sometime this summer (although we’ll believe it when we see it). More »
What The Music Blogs Are Posting Right Now
- The link between Amerie’s Because I Love It and freestyle revealed. [fourfour] – Ten rockers who are trying to follow in their daddies’ footsteps. [Hidden Track] – An interview with the mystery man behind the unsigned-music blog TALENTfilter. More »
Leak Of The Day: Amerie Gives The World Some Love
Amerie’s long-anticipated Because I Love It leaked over the weekend, just a few days before its release in everywhere but the U.S. (As one of our commenters pointed out, the Stateside release date at this point is sometime in mid-July–apparently, major labels haven’t yet received the “staggered… More »
The Phone Lines Are Open, And As Needy As Ever
We have a lot of records scattered around the Idolator flophouse, but sometimes, there are songs and albums that have been lost to moves, swaps gone bad, or overzealous pruning. More »
Leak Of The Day, Part Two: Amerie Sure Knows How To Work It
We were delighted to find the latest track from Amerie, whose mix tape from last year still gets a lot of airplay around the flophouse. The brassed-out “Gotta Work” is apparently going to be on Because I Love It, Amerie’s forthcoming album that has a screwy release-date schedule. More »
Idolator’s 2007 Preview: The Albums We’re Already Sick Of Hearing
In just a few weeks, the Shins release their third effort, Wincing The Night Away. But in music-blog land–a weird, Logan’s Run-like region where no album is allowed to live longer than 30 days–it came out back in October, when it first leaked onto the Web. And so, instead of writing up some speculative and show-offy 2007 preview, we instead present the five records that have already reached the masses (or are just about to reach them). After the click-through, the albums we enjoy so much, we’ve already ruined them for ourselves:
Ending On A Good Note: Thursday’s MP3 Roundup
PICK TO CLICK: Amerie – Money In The Bank / Reminisce Wit’cha [more info] Brinsley Schwarz – Country Girl / The Ugly Things / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, And Understanding [more info] The View – Streetlights / Wasted Little DJs [more info] Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Way Out [more… More »
An Inthusiastic Idolator Indorsement: Why We (Still) Love “Because I Love It”
Last year, we were suckers for “1 Thing,” the three-minutes-of-joy single from R & B singer Amerie; in October, a pal tipped us off to a leaked copy of Because I Love It, her first mixtape, and we went bananas for it almost instantly. More »
Outro: Not To Blow Our Own Horn, But We Think We Had A Pretty Good Week
–Sometimes, things just get lost in translation. –Our commenters love to play with fire… –…and today, some of them got burned. –In a blogosphere full of back-stabbing and balls-breaking, everyone’s happy for $tereogum. More »
