Reality Show (album)

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Reality Show
File:Reality Show.jpg
Studio album by Jazmine Sullivan
Released January 13, 2015 (2015-01-13)
Genre R&B
Length 44:13
Label RCA
Producer Anthony Bell, JayFrance, Da Internz, DJ Dahi, Chuck Harmony, Salaam Remi, Key Wane
Jazmine Sullivan chronology
Love Me Back
(2010)Love Me Back2010		 Reality Show
(2015)
Singles from Reality Show
  1. "Dumb"
    Released: May 13, 2014
  2. "Forever Don't Last"
    Released: September 16, 2014
  3. "Let It Burn"
    Released: March 17, 2015

Reality Show is the third studio album by American R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan. She recorded the album, her first in five years, during a hiatus from the music industry, writing and working with producers such as Anthony Bell, Salaam Remi, and Key Wane.[1] After the album was released on January 13, 2015, by RCA Records, it received widespread acclaim from critics and sold 30,000 copies in its first week.

Background

In January 2011, after having released her second album Love Me Back (2010), Sullivan announced via Twitter that she was indefinitely leaving the music industry saying, "I promised myself when it wasn't fun anymore I wouldn't do it. And, here I am. I'm not saying I won't ever sing again in my life because I don't believe that. But in this moment… right now… [I] got some things to figure out".[2] In 2014, she announced her new album, Reality Show. In a 2014 interview with Billboard, Sullivan described her return as inevitable saying she "...can't escape [her] calling."[3]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars[4]
Complex 3.5/5 stars[5]
Exclaim! 8/10[6]
HipHopDX 4/5[7]
Noisey A–[8]
Now 4/5[9]
Pitchfork Media 8.1/10[10]
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars[11]
Spin 8/10[12]

Reality Show was released by RCA Records on January 13, 2015.[13] In its first week, it debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200 and sold 30,000 copies in the United States.[14] The album also received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, it received an average score of 85, based on 9 reviews.[15]

In a review for The New York Times, Jon Pareles said Reality Show shrewdly mixes older elements of soul music with modern drum programming, while the themes of romantic dysfunction intensify and inspire Sullivan's singing: "Playing a woman too often scorned, she comes out victoriously soulful."[16] AllMusic's Andy Kellman felt she sings more confidently than before and concluded in his review, "Just as potent and lasting as Fearless and Love Me Back, Reality Show completes one of the most impressive first-three-album runs."[4] Ryan B. Patrick of Exclaim! stated that Sullivan's return was a welcome one, as she delivers "an R&B album that feels like how R&B used to sound circa late 90's/early 2000 while still coming off as forward-looking".[6] Pitchfork Media's David Drake hailed Sullivan's voice as the best in contemporary R&B and said "her songs work so well because they allow the listener to experience them at face value or more holistically, shifting perspectives as rapidly as in life itself.".[10]

Accolades

The album received three nominations at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. It was nominated for Best R&B Album, while the song "Let It Burn" received two nominations for Best R&B Song and Best Traditional R&B Performance.[17]

Publication Accolade Year Rank
Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2015 2015
44[18]
Rap-Up The 10 Best Albums of 2015 2015
10[19]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Dumb" (featuring Meek Mill)
3:31
2. "Mascara"  
  • Sullivan
  • Weir II
 Key Wane 4:13
3. "Brand New"  
DJ Dahi 3:27
4. "Silver Lining"  
  • Sullivan
  • Weir II
 Key Wane 3:17
5. "#HoodLove"  
Chuck Harmony 3:45
6. "Let It Burn"  
Key Wane 3:43
7. "Veins"  
  • Sullivan
  • Weir II
 Key Wane 3:50
8. "Forever Don't Last"  
  • Sullivan
  • Birdsong
  • Harmon
 Harmony 3:39
9. "Stupid Girl"  
  • Sullivan
  • Matt Wong
  • Joe "JoeLogic" Gallagher
  • Dan "Dilemma" Thomas
  • JoeLogic
  • Dilemma
  • Wong
 2:54
10. "Stanley"  
Da Internz 4:29
11. "Masterpiece (Mona Lisa)"  
  • Sullivan
  • Anthony Bell
4:05

Personnel

Credits are adapted from AllMusic.[4]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[20] 12
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[21] 3
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[22] 1

References

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  20. ↑ Template:BillboardEncode/J/chart?f=305 "Jazmine Sullivan – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Jazmine Sullivan. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Template:BillboardEncode/J/chart?f=400 Jazmine Sullivan – Chart history" Billboard Digital Albums for Jazmine Sullivan. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Template:BillboardEncode/J/chart?f=333 Jazmine Sullivan – Chart history" Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums for Jazmine Sullivan. Retrieved December 6, 2015.

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