I wanted to give them what they were wanting. I see people on my timeline like, “Why can’t I find your first two albums? Can you fix this?” and I wanted to stop seeing these comments! It makes me feel so out of control to not be able to come up with a solution. If it weren’t for my fans being very vocal on social media, I would not have done this. I was like, “Should I file a petition to get these masters? Is it worth undertaking this and spending the money? Does anybody want this?” I wanted to see if there was something that could be done to get these first two albums in the hands of my fans. It all started with a phone call to my lawyer. But JoJo learned that she was allowed to re-record them, so she got to work on remaking both records, along with old one-off singles “Demonstrate” and “Disaster.”īelow, in her own words, JoJo opens up about what it was like to revisit her first two albums, healing from the trauma of her legal battle and what’s next for her now that this chapter has closed. The original recordings, she determined, were out of her grasp. So at the start of 2018, the now-28-year-old began searching seriously for a way to get those albums back. , her first studio album in a decade - fans continued to ask about JoJo and The High Road. While Jojo may not be taking a career road less traveled, The High Road does make time for some surprising and memorable pit stops along the way.JoJo Re-Releases Debut Album With Updated Tracks: ListenĪs JoJo moved on with her career - in 2016, she released Mad Love. Similarly, "Good Ol'" is the best summer anthem ever to see release in the fall, and "'Comin' for You" smartly borrows some of Kelly Clarkson's rock energy. Cuts such as the gorgeous and dreamy "Like That" and "Anything," with its unexpectedly hip sampling of Toto's "Africa," make for gleefully enjoyable guilty pleasures.
Coming off as a kind of urbanized Jennifer Aniston with the chops of Beyonc‚, Jojo is an assured and likeable performer who can somehow embody the yin-yang persona of a suburban cheerleader slinging hip-hop attitude, as she does in the video for the ridiculously overwrought and utterly addictive lead-off single, "Too Little Too Late." It also helps that she's matured just enough so that her somewhat sexy persona makes a bit more sense now than it did in 2004, and she easily sells the cheeky and raw dance-funk of such tracks as "This Time" and "The Way You Do Me." However, it's the blissfully melodic ballads and mid-tempo anthems that make the biggest impression here. These are well-written, catchy pop songs with a healthy dose of hip-hop rhythm that serve as solid launching pads for Jojo's superb vocal abilities. What may be a surprise is that it is really, really good. Featuring production and songs by such in demand hitmakers as Swizz Beatz, Soulshock, and Scott Storch - the man who made Paris Hilton sound good - it should come as little surprise that The High Road is a commercially oriented, radio-friendly contemporary pop-R&B album.
To say that the release of her 2006 sophomore effort, The High Road, finds Jojo on the cusp of superstardom is a bit of an understatement. Released when she was just 13 years old, vocalist Jojo's 2004 eponymous debut was a bona fide hit album and garnered the young pop star a legion of equally youthful fans, as well as lead roles in two films, including the 2006 comedy RV alongside Robin Williams.
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