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Eve On “Here I Am”…and Where It Is

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In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, hip-hop diva Eve was very vocal about the status of her once-impending, now-delayed, 4th album, Here I Am.

She made it crystal clear that the entire album has not and will not be scrapped. “No, I’m not completely starting over. I’m definitely gonna keep some of the records that I had because I love a lot of the stuff that I did. So I’m keeping a lot of it.” As for the reason for the delay, she chalked it up to a desire for new material. “I’m just going back in to kinda make it a well-rounded album. I think what kind of delayed us this time was that I went in and did two records that sound a lot like the Pharrell record — the singing record. I don’t think the movement was right and I’d rather put out an album and feel 100 percent connected to it than just to put out an album, especially the way music is right now.”

The two records Eve referenced are the singles that preceded Here I Am, which was last slated for a December 18th release. While lead single, “Tambourine”, created an initial buzz and climbed all the way to the top-20 of the R&B/Hip-Hop Chart, follow-up “Give It To You” featuring Sean Paul, arrived DOA at radio. It received spins for several weeks without making an impression on any official Billboard chart. The singles, both produced by Swizz Beatz, were the first for Eve in over 4 years; in stark contrast, her last 2 solo singles to chart, “Gangsta Lovin’” feat. Alicia Keys and “Satisfaction“, peaked at #2 and #27 on the Hot 100.

For all the Eve fans longing for a new album, the only release date Eve herself could provide is “sometime next year”. Comparing the postponement to the “the longest labor on earth”, Eve is confident that her end product will be worth the wait and continues to be unshaken by the currently shaky climate of the record industry. “Nowadays, a single could play for weeks and weeks and weeks on the radio. It could be the biggest single, and the album sales don’t match up. So, you know, it’s a different format, and I don’t even think that anybody has the formula to it.”

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Posted in News on October 16th, 2007

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  1. Stephen Wagner Says:
    December 4th, 2007 at 4:42 am

    Good news. Thank you.
    Very much it was pleasant to me

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