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Track List
01) Warm Up
02) I'm Not Afraid
03) Golden
04) The Fact Is (I Need You)
05) Spring Summer Feeling
06) Cross My Mind
07) Bedda at Home
08) Talk to Me
09) Family Reunion
10) Can't Explain (42nd Street Happenstance)
11) Whatever
12) Not Like Crazy
13) Nothing (interlude)
14) Rasool
15) My Petition
16) I Keep / Still Here
01) Warm Up
02) I'm Not Afraid
03) Golden
04) The Fact Is (I Need You)
05) Spring Summer Feeling
06) Cross My Mind
07) Bedda at Home
08) Talk to Me
09) Family Reunion
10) Can't Explain (42nd Street Happenstance)
11) Whatever
12) Not Like Crazy
13) Nothing (interlude)
14) Rasool
15) My Petition
16) I Keep / Still Here
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3:25
3:51
4:37
4:49
4:44
4:22
4:44
5:12
4:39
4:26
3:57
1:31
3:05
4:11
8:45
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First Released
2004
Soul
Happy
Urban/R&B
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Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 is the second studio album (third overall) by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on August 31, 2004, by Hidden Beach Recordings. It entered the charts at number three on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with first-week sales of 193,000 copies, earning Scott her first number-one album. Also, the song "Cross My Mind" brought Scott her first Grammy Award, under the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category in 2005. "Golden" appears in the films Beauty Shop (2005) and Obsessed (2009), as well as on Grand Theft Auto IV's fictional soul/R&B radio station The Vibe 98.8. "Bedda at Home" is used as the website background music for the Hotel Missoni.
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It’s always interesting to see how an artist follows a critically lauded and groundbreaking (not to mention mega-selling) debut. There are three options: eschew its success and take a sharp left turn; repeat with diminishing returns; or develop, take time and create an album that is equal or worthy. With the weight of the plaudits that were heaped on Jill Scott’s 2000 debut, Who Is Jill Scott?, it would have been easy for her to follow either of the first two options. Thankfully, after a four-year wait broken only by the live-material-and-extras collection Experience Jill Scott 826+ and originally entitled The Truth, Beautifully Human was a notable progression for Scott. Created with over a dozen producers, including Raphael Saadiq and long-term collaborators Karma Productions, the album bears many of the leisurely, nostalgic RnB trademarks of neo-soul, yet Scott’s voice and subject matter elevates it above anything generic. Although perhaps not as immediate as her debut, Beautifully Human is a slow-burning work of considerable depth.
The album is full of candour: from the first words of opening song proper I’m Not Afraid – "I am not afraid to be your lady / I am not afraid to be your whore" – her forthrightness is pervasive. Tracks like Whatever, Spring Summer Feeling and Golden are irresistible. Scott’s poetry roots are ever-present – Cross My Mind is effectively a poem set to minimal piano and beatbox with an infectious chorus. It won Scott a Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2005. Family Reunion captures the joy and pathos of a barbeque in the sun. With lines such as "Someone turns Frankie Beverly on the stereo and Ruby starts rocking her one good hip," you feel that you are opening Scott's family photo-album and looking inside. Beautifully Human is in honour of Minnie Riperton, and it is easy to hear her influence throughout. Album closer I Keep/Still Here is redolent of Riperton’s best work, a message of strident self-empowerment delivered sweetly and sincerely. With a sleeve full of pictures from her youth, Beautifully Human is a deeply personal album that, while reflective, rarely strays into indulgence. It is the sound of an artist enjoying herself. Often sounding exhilarated by her own performance or occasionally collapsing into laughter, it is hard not to lose yourself in her intimate, upbeat universe.
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Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 is the second studio album (third overall) by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on August 31, 2004, by Hidden Beach Recordings. It entered the charts at number three on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with first-week sales of 193,000 copies, earning Scott her first number-one album. Also, the song "Cross My Mind" brought Scott her first Grammy Award, under the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category in 2005. "Golden" appears in the films Beauty Shop (2005) and Obsessed (2009), as well as on Grand Theft Auto IV's fictional soul/R&B radio station The Vibe 98.8. "Bedda at Home" is used as the website background music for the Hotel Missoni.
User Album Review
It’s always interesting to see how an artist follows a critically lauded and groundbreaking (not to mention mega-selling) debut. There are three options: eschew its success and take a sharp left turn; repeat with diminishing returns; or develop, take time and create an album that is equal or worthy. With the weight of the plaudits that were heaped on Jill Scott’s 2000 debut, Who Is Jill Scott?, it would have been easy for her to follow either of the first two options. Thankfully, after a four-year wait broken only by the live-material-and-extras collection Experience Jill Scott 826+ and originally entitled The Truth, Beautifully Human was a notable progression for Scott. Created with over a dozen producers, including Raphael Saadiq and long-term collaborators Karma Productions, the album bears many of the leisurely, nostalgic RnB trademarks of neo-soul, yet Scott’s voice and subject matter elevates it above anything generic. Although perhaps not as immediate as her debut, Beautifully Human is a slow-burning work of considerable depth.
The album is full of candour: from the first words of opening song proper I’m Not Afraid – "I am not afraid to be your lady / I am not afraid to be your whore" – her forthrightness is pervasive. Tracks like Whatever, Spring Summer Feeling and Golden are irresistible. Scott’s poetry roots are ever-present – Cross My Mind is effectively a poem set to minimal piano and beatbox with an infectious chorus. It won Scott a Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2005. Family Reunion captures the joy and pathos of a barbeque in the sun. With lines such as "Someone turns Frankie Beverly on the stereo and Ruby starts rocking her one good hip," you feel that you are opening Scott's family photo-album and looking inside. Beautifully Human is in honour of Minnie Riperton, and it is easy to hear her influence throughout. Album closer I Keep/Still Here is redolent of Riperton’s best work, a message of strident self-empowerment delivered sweetly and sincerely. With a sleeve full of pictures from her youth, Beautifully Human is a deeply personal album that, while reflective, rarely strays into indulgence. It is the sound of an artist enjoying herself. Often sounding exhilarated by her own performance or occasionally collapsing into laughter, it is hard not to lose yourself in her intimate, upbeat universe.
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