The line on Joanna Levesque, then and now, has been nearly the same since she began making records at age 13. JoJo, the youngest female solo artist to have a No. 1 in the U.S. with 2004’s “Le…
The line on Joanna Levesque, then and now, has been nearly the same since she began making records at age 13., the youngest female solo artist to have a No. 1 in the U.S. with 2004’s “Leave ,” made mature-for-her-age pop R&B. Sure, as a teen, she was more pop than R&B — a marketing trick if anything — and didn’t possess soul’s deep emotion, or its rhythmic density, on the early albums “JoJo” and “The High Road.” But JoJo conveyed a twee sense of street-sultriness .
In a weird way, from its cultured chord changes and hushed emotive vocals to its clicking rhythms and orchestrated synths, “Good to Know” comes across like an update of Janet Jackson’s “Control” album, especially its simmering, slow closer “Funny How Time Flies .” And she does get racy. The Noise Club-produced “Gold,” with its typewriter-esque percussion and detuned melody , finds the flurries of multi-tracked JoJo in a metaphorical mood when comparing sex with divinity. But the see-sawing tango of “Comeback,” with rude guest stars Tory Lanez and 30 Roc, is positively X-rated. So, too, is “Man,” with its handsome Latin guitar licks and her call for “a f—ing man / Someone to want me like a fan… / He ride for me like he a stan.
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