Nicole Scherzinger - Killer Love

[VoR]

She's been the breakout star of X Factor 2012, but what did you make of her long-gestating debut album?

00 Poison
00 Killer Love
00 Don't Hold Your Breath
00 Right There
00 You Will Be Loved
00 Wet
00 Say Yes
00 Club Banger Nation
00 Power's Out
00 Desperate
00 Everybody
00 Heartbeat
00 Casualty
00 Amenjena

00 Try With Me
00 Trust Me I Lie
00 Tomorrow Never Dies

 

[Lockhart]

11 Poison
10 Killer Love
09 Don't Hold Your Breath
06 Right There
07 You Will Be Loved
08 Wet
09 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
06 Power's Out
09 Desperate
08 Everybody
07 Heartbeat
08 Casualty
08 Amenjena

10 Try With Me
10 Trust Me I Lie
07 Tomorrow Never Dies

Oh and of course Goldeneye is an honourary 10 too, it's all about the pained ad libs at the end.

 

[VoR]

Weighed down by forgettable ballad filler, but the uptempos on this album were really enjoyable.

09 Poison
08 Killer Love
10 Don't Hold Your Breath
08 Right There
07 You Will Be Loved
07 Wet
08 Say Yes
09 Club Banger Nation
00 Power's Out
05 Desperate
06 Everybody
08 Heartbeat
06 Casualty
07 Amenjena

09 Try With Me
07 Trust Me I Lie
07 Tomorrow Never Dies

 

[VoR]

Try With Me really got a bum rap. They obviously thought it was going to be a huge hit, but interest had just fizzled out at that point. Shame as it's a beautiful song. The ad-libs at the end are glorious.

 

[straightorbroken]

10 Poison
10 Killer Love
10 Don't Hold Your Breath
08 Right There
06 You Will Be Loved
10 Wet
10 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
05 Power's Out
07 Desperate
07 Everybody
10 Heartbeat
07 Casualty
07 Amenjena

10 Try With Me
08 Trust Me I Lie

My current favourite is Try With Me.

DON'T DRAW ME IN HE WARNS ME
TOO HURT TO GIVE IT ONE MORE SHOT

Gets me every time.

 

[Pipo]

09 Poison
08 Killer Love
11 Don't Hold Your Breath
08 Right There
06 You Will Be Loved
10 Wet LOVE IT 4EVER
08 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
05 Power's Out
08 Desperate
07 Everybody
09 Heartbeat
09 Casualty
07 Amenjena

10 Try With Me
06 Trust Me I Lie
08 Tomorrow Never Dies

If only we've gotten Guns And Roses and Cold in this album, I would give it a 9.5

 

[Jark]

The post-date rape haze artwork is quite something.

09 Poison
08 Killer Love
11 Don't Hold Your Breath
11 Right There
05 You Will Be Loved
10 Wet
10 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
03 Power's Out
08 Desperate
04 Everybody
09 Heartbeat
04 Casualty
02 Amenjena

09 Try With Me
09 Cold

 

[PercyPig]

Cold is amazing.

 

[POP!]

A very good pop album but certainly has its few flaws.

08 Poison
09 Killer Love
09 Don't Hold Your Breath
10 Right There
02 You Will Be Loved
08 Wet
08 Say Yes
09 Club Banger Nation
06 Power's Out
05 Desperate
06 Everybody
10 Heartbeat
06 Casualty
04 Amenjena

The build-up to the chorus in "Club Banger Nation" really is everything, such a moment on the treadmill.

 

[BoysForSeles]

Calling this a classic is more than pushing it. A couple of really good tracks but on the whole a very big disappointment.

 

[Penelope]

An album of INSANE HIGHS amidst serious mediocrity

11 Poison
10 Killer Love
10 Don't Hold Your Breath
09 Right There
05 You Will Be Loved
09 Wet
05 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
05 Power's Out
04 Desperate
04 Everybody
08 Heartbeat
05 Casualty
05 Amenjena

07 Try With Me
10 Cold

 

[Penelope]

The post-date rape haze artwork is quite something.

09 Poison
08 Killer Love
11 Don't Hold Your Breath
11 Right There
05 You Will Be Loved
10 Wet
10 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
03 Power's Out
08 Desperate
04 Everybody
09 Heartbeat
04 Casualty
02 Amenjena

09 Try With Me
09 Cold

TWO elevens?!

 

[Devil]

Utterly fabulous in a shit-female-pop way. Some truly fabulous standouts though.

10 Poison
10 Killer Love
11 Don't Hold Your Breath
08 Right There
05 You Will Be Loved
08 Wet
10 Say Yes
07 Club Banger Nation
06 Power's Out
06 Desperate
04 Everybody
08 Heartbeat
05 Casualty
05 Amenjena

 

[COB]

10 Poison
09 Killer Love
11 Don't Hold Your Breath
10 Right There
09 You Will Be Loved
10 Wet
09 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
08 Power's Out
07 Desperate
07 Everybody
09 Heartbeat
08 Casualty
10 Amenjena

10 Try With Me
08 Trust Me I Lie

11 Cold
09 Goldeneye

 

[Pipo]

Thanks to POP! for reminding me of this pop masterpiece

10 Poison
09 Killer Love
11 Don't Hold Your Breath
08 Right There
02 You Will Be Loved
09 Wet
08 Say Yes
10 Club Banger Nation
07 Power's Out
06 Desperate
06 Everybody
10 Heartbeat
08 Casualty
?? Amenjena (Can't remember how it goes but who cares )

 

[Devil]

The uptempo's really are bloody good.

It's just the constant shit ballads that let it down. An 8 track EP would've been blinding

 

[Penelope]

Did Boomerang get an album in the end?

 

[VoR]

Try With Me is my #1 Nicole song by far these days. So unfairly slept on. It's all about those forlorn outro vocals.

 

[GNL]

'Poison' and 'Club Banger Nation' are absolute jams, but for some reason my friends love to play 'Wet' when getting wasted, so it has some (admittedly hazy) good memories associated with it.

 

[COB]

My rate STILL STANDS.

 

[D5K]

Dammit. I voted 10 but for some reason thought this thread was about the song, not the album. Album-wise I'd give it an 8.

 

[Devil]

It's hard to believe this spent about 5 months in the chart and sold around 200k. Utter madness!

 

[straightorbroken]

I don't care to remind myself what much of it sounds like, but the RedOne meets 90s Lilt advert ladies Club Bamger Nation and aggressive bits on Try With Me still get me good.

 

[Jark]

Killer Love, the title track, was quite blatantly meant to be a Gaga track right? The refrain and the middle 8 are so Fame/Fame Monster Gaga, and weirdly if I think if it was given a Born This Way industrial reswizzle I think it would be a peak Gaga moment to be honest.

Also a great song in Nicole's hands, but she sounds so much more at home on Don't Hold Your Breath - now that was a classic. Hooks and melody for days.

 

[OutSynk]

Killer Love, the title track, was quite blatantly meant to be a Gaga track right? The refrain and the middle 8 are so Fame/Fame Monster Gaga, and weirdly if I think if it was given a Born This Way industrial reswizzle I think it would be a peak Gaga moment to be honest.

But it already DOES sound more Born This Way than the previous albums?

 

[OutSynk]

The album could have been great if she had stuck with solely RedOne as it was first planned. There were some great tracks left off:



There was another track called Guns and Roses but there's no YouTube link any longer.

 

[OutSynk]

Oh Wild Child has been chipmunked.

 

[OutSynk]

She might as well have recorded this RedOne production as well

 

[Pipo]

Guns and Roses was horrible

https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/48081/Nicole-Scherzinger-Guns-and-Roses-Music/

 

[Pipo]

She might as well have recorded this RedOne production as well

ooh I should bump a Red One thread somewhere cause I've been bopping to JLO's Hypnotico a lot lately Surely that one was too basic for GaGA?

 

[OutSynk]

Guns and Roses was horrible

https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/48081/Nicole-Scherzinger-Guns-and-Roses-Music/

It's a bit shit compared to the other two indeed but it fits the SOUND.

ooh I should bump a Red One thread somewhere cause I've been bopping to JLO's Hypnotico a lot lately Surely that one was too basic for GaGA?

It was written by her. I still prefer the ORIGINAL version though.

 

[straightorbroken]

I still prefer the "J-Lo" version.

 

[Pipo]

Do we have to split this thread then?

I love how Red One re-sells his materials including the very same backing vocals. That Tami Chynn version is basically the same as JLO's }

Same with this shit



"Oh just paste Nicki's verses but leave everything else intact no one will notice"

 

[straightorbroken]

J-Lo's spray tan vocals aren't really worth more than a drag and drop click of a mouse.

 

[OutSynk]

"Oh just paste Nicki's verses but leave everything else intact no one will notice"

I mean no one will notice indeed since it was a demo anyway? The Tami Chynn version wasn't officially released either.

He literally did a copy and paste with his productions though and we loved him for it.

 

[OutSynk]

If only we've gotten Guns And Roses and Cold in this album, I would give it a 9.5

Guns and Roses was horrible

 

[D5K]

What's Red-One up to now?

 

[COB]

I'm still waiting for her to release Black Dog, "coming Summer 2011" according to this OFFICIAL VIDEO

Did this ever leak? If she'd had lasting solo success maybe she would have been able to explore other genres like this, which I for one would have been very into.

 

[OutSynk]

I'm still waiting for her to release Black Dog, "coming Summer 2011" according to this OFFICIAL VIDEO

Did this ever leak? If she'd had lasting solo success maybe she would have been able to explore other genres like this, which I for one would have been very into.

I'm guessing the label said no and wanted cute R&B bops like Right There and club smashas like Wet instead but more importantly the filler that took up half the album. The whole pop rock sound she was going for with RedOne was great.

 

[OutSynk]

Good God Poison is just INCREDIBLE isn't it. So much POWER. A 13/10 if there ever was one.