Public Warning
Artist(s):
Lady Sovereign
Label: Def Jam
Publisher(s):
Def Jam
Studio: Def Jam
Manufacturer: Def Jam
Binding: Audio CD
MPN: 000762502
Format(s): Explicit Lyrics
List Price: $10.99
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Track Listing
1.
9 to 5
2.
Gatheration
3.
Random
4.
Public Warning
5.
Love Me or Hate Me - Lady Sovereign, Gottwald, Lukasz
6.
My England
7.
Tango
8.
A Little Bit of Shhh
9.
Hoodie
10.
Those Were the Days - Lady Sovereign, Gottwald, Lukasz
11.
Blah Blah
12.
Fiddle with the Volume
13.
Love Me or Hate Me - Lady Sovereign, Elliot, M.
Editorial Reviews
Album Description
UK pressing of the debut album by female British MC Lady Sovereign features one bonus track: 'Pretty Vacant' (Live At Commodore Ballroom). Her recent success in the US is all the more remarkable because she?s steadfastly stuck to her uniquely UK sound. You?ll find no Neptunes makeover. No MOR ballads have snuck into the set. Sovereign?s still rhyming about shepherd?s pie, Tango and Tony Blair. She?s still playing havoc with musical genres; mixing up Rap and Pop, Punk and Grime, the social comment with the wisecracks. In other words: she?s still all the things that made her stand out in the first place. The album features fourteen tracks including early singles ?Random?, ?Public Warning? and ?Hoodie? as well as new single ?Love Me Or Hate Me? (which has sold over 125,00 digital units in the US so far and the video for which has seen Sovereign become the first British artist to have the No.1 most requested video on MTV US). Island. 2007.
Amazon.com
More Eminem than Missy Elliot, this diminutive U.K. rapper shows exactly how threatening a small woman with a big mouth can be. Her spiky collision of punk rock attitude and pop appeal is a revelation and her self-awareness is oddly shocking, but rather endearing, as the 5-foot-1 rapper asserts, "I'm the biggest midget in the fame." Wicked, irreverent, smart, and full of self-depreciating humor, this queen of grime rap pillages her autobiography on "Those Were the Days," deconstructs nationalism on "My England," raids Mother Goose on "Public Warning," and then drops a gauntlet with a loud clattering sound, making listeners laugh out loud with the snotty, but laughable challenge of "Love Me or Hate Me." But mostly she keeps things moving, throwing off sparks and bon mots with her mad, furious, in-your-face flow, while adding a bit of glam and new wave to the electro hip-hop beats. She might be small, but her future as the voice of the fashionably disaffected is huge. --Jaan Uhelszki
Customer Reviews
One of the very few...
Wow, what a great CD. I'm generally not a fan of rap, save for a few artists, and Lady Sovereign is one of them.
This is one of the very few discs I can put on shuffle and not have to skip any songs. I actually received the MP3s from a friend and liked it so much I went out and bought the CD.
fun and energetic
I caught Lady Sovereign as an opening act for Gwen Stefani's The Sweet Escape tour. This little midget-girl (actually, she's 22) hops out onto the stage and starts yelling incomprehensible working-class British slang at the audience and I thought, "Oh boy, what was Gwen thinking?" but then she launched right into her act and I was blown away. This chick has so much energy and smarts. Her rhymes are super fresh and fun and it's very energetic. It took me several listens before I was able to decipher most of the lyrics, but it's well worth the effort. The Missy Elliot remix of "Love me or Hate Me" is definitely a highlight on the album. I love all the tracks, although some of the subject matter is a little immature for me (I'm 36)--like what she did as a kid playing around the projects, and a tribute song to house parties.
3-1/2 stars -- Good but she could use a hook-up
Very few white female rappers seem to be able to make it in the game, possibly because they either try too hard (Sarai) or they don't try hard enough (Northern State). All arguments aside, I remember first reading about Lady Sovereign in the 2005 Love/Hate issue of XXL, and I didn't really know who she was except that she was on Def Jam. I didn't get to hear her Vertically Challenged EP, but I have to say that I enjoy her full-length debut, Public Warning.
Be advised, though: Lady Sov's style isn't best classified as "standard" rap. She's actually an English grime artist, which IS still rap, but it isn't structured the same way as rap in the States is. Fortunately, her music is more accessible than, say, Dizzee Rascal's; and although her thick accent is wholly evident within her rhymes, it's easier to stand than, say, the Streets'. Notable tracks include "9 to 5", "Fiddle with the Volume" and, of course, "Love Me or Hate Me".
There is also a necessary end-of-album remix-of-the-first-single featuring Missy Elliott, and although it's good, it seems like Missy just changed her style to suit Sov's (but Missy changes her style on every song she does anyway, so maybe that's not that big of a deal). But the only real problem with the album is that there are a lot of otherwise great songs that have questionable choruses, especially "Blah Blah Blah". "Random" seems like a bad attempt to introduce new slang, and the chorus to "Tango" doesn't make any sense. But there are still enough good moments to qualify Lady Sovereign as a force not to be reckoned with, so pick Public Warning up.
Anthony Rupert
ugh
I liked the single, so got the CD. Oops.
unbelievable
I just went to the Gwen stefani and akon concert with sov opening. all i can say is that being a huge fan of gwen and really enjoying akon's work i really wasn't thrilled to see that sov was opening beings that i had never really heard any of her music, but by the end of her show i knew there was no way akon nor gwen had a chance of grabbing my attention as much as sov. if you get a chance see her live you won't regret it.
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