Miguel All I Want Is You Full Album
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'Girls Like You'Released: November 8, 2011All I Want Is You is the debut by American singer and songwriter. It was released on November 30, 2010, by and.After signing to ByStorm in 2007, Miguel recorded the album with producers, Fisticuffs, Happy Perez, State of Emergency,. It was shelved by Jive for two years after legal issues with the singer's former production company.
Selling poorly upon its release, it became on the with the help of singles such as and '. By September 2012, it had sold 404,000 copies.All I Want Is You received positive reviews; critics found some of the music inconsistent but praised Miguel's singing and songwriting abilities while drawing comparisons to. Miguel toured in promotion of the album as a supporting act for fellow R&B singers. Contents.Background In 2007, Miguel was signed to -imprint label, before recording All I Want Is You. Recording sessions for the album took place at Black Mango Studios in Van Nuys, California, Germano Studios in New York City, Glenwood Studios and Instrument Zoo in Miami, Florida, Studio 609 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and The Gym in Los Angeles, California. Music and lyrics According to Jason Newman from, All I Want Is You is 'a diverse album rooted in R&B and hip-hop, thoughtfully laced with elements of classic rock, funk and electro'. Marc Hogan from said it featured music, while critic David Jeffries described it as a 'slick' and 'sexy' synthesis of influences from, and electro.
'Girls Like You' and 'Hard Way' feature aggressive hip hop beats, while 'Pay Me' and 'To the Moon' explore European and, respectively. The album's first half features two romantic songs, an interlude, a song about a prostitute, and another about a. The closing track 'My Piece' uses a 'piece'-'peace'.
Jeffries said the album featured Miguel's 'sly sense of humor'. On 'Sure Thing', Miguel sang about loyalty in a passionate. Release and promotion. 'Though its poor initial showing on the charts seemed to affirm Jive's lack of faith in it, the record gradually discovered an audience over the next year thanks to a trickle of ingratiating singles that established Miguel as one of radio’s rarest commodities: a new R&B star. With its splatters of off-kilter funk and mesmeric electro, All I Want Is You teased a unique vision without coloring too far outside the boundaries of popular R&B.' —Evan Rytlewski,After the album's completion, legal issues with his former production company prevented it from being released for two years, during which Miguel continued working with various underground acts and writing songs for mainstream recording artists, including, and.All I Want Is You was released by Bystorm Entertainment and Jive, on November 30, 2010.
It sold poorly at first; in its first week, the album charted at number 109 on the and sold 11,000 copies in the United States. After falling off the chart for three weeks, it re-entered and climbed the chart for 22 weeks, before peaking at number 37 on May 14, 2011. The album became a, and by September 2012, it had sold 404,000 copies, according to. The album has been certified by the (RIAA).According to Miguel, Jive marketed him as a 'typical R&B artist' during their promotion of All I Want Is You: 'That album was a huge learning experience. I left the marketing of my album and me as an artist up to the discretion of the label.
I can't really blame them for that, because that's what they know. But that's not what my lifestyle was.' Four singles were released from the album: the title track ', ', ', and 'Girls Like You'. As the title track gradually received, Miguel began touring as a supporting act for Usher. By May 2011, 'All I Want Is You' and 'Sure Thing' had reached a combined digital/mobile sales of over 825,000 units. Critical reception Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingB+Reviewing the album for, Mark Edward Nero said Miguel 'somehow managed to vocally glide across each' of the different styles he explored in music that was nonetheless rooted in R&B. He deemed the record imperfect but devoid of a poor song.
Wright from found the music inconsistent and 'schizophrenic' but praised Miguel's singing and songwriting abilities while determining the record was 'worth the purchase price'. 's Matthew Cole said the second half of songs was 'less stimulating' on an album that 'blends slick, radio-friendly R&B with Prince-aping theatrics, both refracted around a sense of humor that, surreal and sexually unsubtle, would have to make Prince proud'.
Cole also compared Miguel to singer, 'whose work has an undeniably commercial cunning to it, but who never fails to imbue her pop confections with real personality'.Writing in a few years later, said Miguel 'front-loaded his Prince-channeling debut' with 'five tracks' that were 'followed by six pleasant tracks and capped by two hooky novelties'. He viewed the song 'Teach Me' as 'a treasure hidden in the middle' and 's' song, 'unprecedented' in 'a genre that makes its nut promising untold pleasures'.
He credited Miguel for 'laying out the truth that, as put it in one of the few useful sex tips in his orgasm-mad canon, 'the man as lover is dependent upon the bounty of the woman.' Who knows what pleases her?
She does, she alone, and Miguel craves to be let in on that shifting and enthralling secret.' He nonetheless critiqued that the song lacked a first-rate hook that would have made it an R&B classic in the vein of 's ' and '.
Track listing Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. ^ Lipshutz, Jason (September 21, 2012). Retrieved October 20, 2012. Retrieved on June 8, 2011.
Newman, Jason (May 16, 2011). MTV Buzzworthy Blog. Retrieved November 9, 2011. Hogan, Marc (July 26, 2012). Retrieved October 22, 2012. ^ Jeffries, David.
Retrieved August 8, 2012. ^ Nero, Mark Edward (November 30, 2010). Retrieved on March 17, 2011. ^ (December 28, 2012). Archived from on December 28, 2012.
Retrieved December 28, 2012. ^ Rytlewski, Evan (October 9, 2012). Retrieved October 19, 2012. Jeffries, David. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
^ (May 9, 2011). March 19, 2012, at the. Press release. Retrieved on July 22, 2011.
November 8, 2010. Retrieved on July 22, 2011. Concepcion, Mariel (December 8, 2010). Retrieved on July 22, 2011. Ramirez, Erika (June 10, 2011). Retrieved November 9, 2011.
March 24, 2011. Retrieved October 17, 2012. Retrieved on July 22, 2011.
Muhammad, Latifah (July 1, 2011). Retrieved on July 22, 2011.
^ Cole, Matthew (December 3, 2010). Retrieved on March 17, 2011. Wright, B. (December 7, 2010).
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