Ever since he became lucky by producing only one good album for Lady Gaga, apparently everyone and their mother thinks that RedOne is soooo talented they all need to work with them . He has recycled the same beats for the likes of Kat Deluna, Pitbull, Nicole Scherzinger, Usher, Mohombi, Nayer, Nicki Garbaj, Chris Brown, Jennifer Lopez, and too many more to mention. In addition to working with Shakira on her new album and reuniting with Lady Gaga on some tracks for POPTART, the megaproducer is also back in the studio with Jennifer Lopez and is also stepping outside of the dance world with Jennifer Hudson
Here's what he told MTV News about what he's working on: ”I’m the executive producer of [Lopez's] album, and we already have songs that are just incredible. It’s just amazing. It’s mixed [styles]. It’s everything about Jennifer Lopez.”
“It’s not one thing; it’s everything you experience,” he continued. “It’s a very special album. It feels like this album, to us, has to have everything about her, not just one thing. You’re going to have all the sides, kind of urban/hip-hop and the commercial, like the way she did with Ja Rule. It’s everything you love about her [including] the dance, the rhythmic, the Latin.”
So basically J Lo's new album will have every style and personality she's incorporated into her musical empire for her almost 14-year career. As for Jennifer Hudson, who's last album was beyond boring with all those ballads and mid-tempo tracks, here's what he also told MTV News about their collaboration:
“I’m excited about it,” revealed RedOne. “To me, like, I’m working right now [and] I’m working on some ideas for her. I think I’m very excited because I think it’s fresh, something totally fresh for me.”
“I think it’s going to be the most incredible thing. I know music, and I adapt to the art,” he added of moving outside of the dance world for the project. “It’s very important to focus on that. And [with the] songwriting aspect, I think I know how she sounds on the radio. I think I know what people want to hear. I think I know what the artist wants. And the combination of all of that, you can never go wrong.”
I just wish there was more of a varitey of dance music in the mainstream than the crappy fist-pumping, noisy dance that has been dominating the charts as of late. I think when Gaga first worked with RedOne on The Fame, they had excellent chemistry and made amazing songs together. Ever since she left RedOne's side to work on Born This Way, the music wasn't the same. I'm not sure that the chemistry will come back now that he's working with her on POPTART, since to me he has better chemistry with J Lo. He gave J Lo some of the biggest dance tracks of her career when she collaborated with him on her comeback singles On The Floor and Dance Again. I even thought Hypnotico was an awesome song that should have been released as a single instead of that ratchet ass I'm Into You song she did with Lil Wayne. I just hope since RedOne is executive producing her album that J Lo will not be getting fourth-rate filler tracks like she had all over her Love? album and will actually take the time to put out a proper record for once.
As for Jennifer Hudson I've always saw her as someone who would make a great dance diva, in the vein of Deborah Cox. If she wants to do dance music she seriously needs to get a style that works for her and not follow what everyone else is doing. I saw the potential with Night of Your Life, but the track sounded too similar to Rihanna's Only Girl. Yes David Guetta was making that style of music first back when he was an unknown in the U.S., and Stargate ripped him off once dance music finally became "a thing" on the Billboarc and radio charts, but by then DG switched up his style and unless you are a dance music afficiionado you wouldn't know the history of dance music styles.
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