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| In the Biography section on the main site it says heaps of the songs from the album, and some information on them. Here they are: SATURDAY NIGHT The rapper Ludacris did his thing on the Brian Kennedy-produced 'Saturday Night', surely a club favourite-in-waiting, with its sweeping synths and staccato beats. As a sign of Jessica's new-found confidence, she wasn't happy with the original rap, and had the rapper re-do it. He did. LIKE THIS Then there was 'Like This', a tune she'd written at home in Australia. "It's a special song to me," explains Jessica. "I didn't want anyone else to have it, and I really wanted it on the album. So we put it away and left it for a while." When Jessica did revisit the song once she was recording in the US, the general consensus was that it needed a little extra flavour. Enter Virgin Islands rapper, Iyaz. The star added his distinctive Caribbean lilt to proceedings, and the end result is that the track is one of the album's premier songs, with a chorus that will get in your head and a beat, mixed with a mood that will get you on the dancefloor. WHAT HAPPENED TO US? On the sweeping ballad that is 'What Happened To Us?' (a track penned by the man responsible for Madonna's 'Like A Virgin', Billy Steinberg), UK superstar Jay Sean put his substantial vocal talents alongside Jessica's. FIGHT FOR YOU She found herself writing songs with Harvey Mason, Jr, known for his work with Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson, Leona Lewis and Justin Timberlake among many others. The pair wrote two of the album's stand-out tracks, 'Fight For You' and 'Here for Me'. HERE FOR ME She found herself writing songs with Harvey Mason, Jr, known for his work with Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson, Leona Lewis and Justin Timberlake among many others. The pair wrote two of the album's stand-out tracks, 'Fight For You' and 'Here for Me'. MAZE Uber-songwriter Claude Kelly (Michael Jackson, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears) encouraged Jessica to be more open in her songwriting, more playful, more willing to take a risk. "Nothing that I suggested was stupid to him." Out of the session came the pumping sounds of 'Maze'. SCARIEST PART Chuck Harmony (who penned 'Russian Roulette' for Rihanna) weighed in on the power ballad that is 'Scariest Part', which has hit written all over it. CAN ANYBODY TELL ME? She wrote alongside Stori James on 'Can Anybody Tell Me?' FOREIGN and with Cristyle, the woman who had written 'Touch My Body' for Jessica's idol Mariah Carey. For Jessica it was another moment, and the end result was 'Foreign'. HANDLE IT She found herself in the Atlanta studio of one Jazze Pha, the man responsible for shaping Ciara and one of the most respected producers in hip-hop. His methods of working proved a little more unconventional. "He fell asleep while we were working. It was like meditation to him. I was like, 'Is he asleep?'" laughs Jessica, at the memory. "Then all of a sudden he woke up, started programming some beats to my lyrics and we had 'Handle It'." |
