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Stacy Barthe's first album, following a handful of EPs and tracks released from 2013 through early 2015, begins with a song written after her attempted suicide. Its candid despair isn't liable to surprise anyone familiar with Barthe's previous work, like "Drink My Pain Away," or some of her darker compositions recorded by other artists. As a songwriter, Barthe's commercial successes include Rihanna's "Cheers (Drink to That)" and Miley Cyrus' "Adore You," but there are no party anthems or potential wedding songs on BEcoming, a rare major-label R&B album for soul-searching introverts. Aside from a cover of Anita Baker's quiet storm classic "Angel," on which she is joined by co-executive producer John Legend (whose Love in the Future contained an interlude-length version), Barthe co-wrote every song and is listed first each time. She details a mess of feelings and resigned observations. If they weren't arranged so neatly, or delivered in such a poised, almost cool fashion -- Barthe never oversings, rarely raises her voice -- the hour-length album would be hard to absorb, perhaps even for wallowers, in one sitting. Production-wise, BEcoming freely ranges from genre to genre -- contemporary R&B, folk, even a little dub and shadowy synth-pop -- and often blends them with finesse. The album's heart, however, is in its two barest songs, sequenced back to back. "Me Versus Me," a Grammy-worthy piano ballad, recalls the best of Carole King, while "Find It (Transition)," heaved along on nothing more than a bass drum and a few faint accents of piano and strings, completes the previous song's thoughts -- "It's still an uphill battle" -- with "I gotta find a new way to live." She should be well on her way.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Chauncey Hollis, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Chamberlain, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Hit-Boy, Producer - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fall of Ai Chamber Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Oren Kleinman, Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Oren Yoel, Producer - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Chamberlain, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Josiah Bashta, ComposerLyricist - Geoff Gallegos, Saxophones, AssociatedPerformer - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Arceneaux, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Iris Belson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Joseph Walker, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jamelle Williams, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Shaunte Palmer, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Charles LA Harper, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fall of Ai Chamber Orchestra, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Joi Campbell, ComposerLyricist - James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Woodard, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Corey Gibson, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - John Stephens, ComposerLyricist - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Arceneaux, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Charles LA Harper, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Claude Kelly, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Babko, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Darhyl Camper Jr., Producer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Piazza, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ran Pink, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Thomas, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Common, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Lynn, ComposerLyricist - Karla Elie, ComposerLyricist - Benny Cassette, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Geoff Gallegos, Saxophones, AssociatedPerformer - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Benedetto Rotondi, ComposerLyricist - Ran Pink, Producer - Jamelle Williams, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Shaunte Palmer, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Darhyl Camper, Jr., Producer - Stacy Barthe, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jason Agel, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Darhyl Camper Jr., ComposerLyricist - Joe Napolitano, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2012 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Shane Abrahams, ComposerLyricist - Edward Blackmon, ComposerLyricist - Ronnie Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Chamberlain, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
James Ho, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Chamberlain, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Malay, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2014 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Patrick Moten, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - James Poyser, Producer - John Legend, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dirty Harry, Producer - Jason Agel, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sandra E. Sully, ComposerLyricist - Jacob Dennis, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James Caruana, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Benny Cassette, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Arceneaux, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Shane Abrahams, ComposerLyricist - Edward Blackmon, ComposerLyricist - Benedetto Rotondi, ComposerLyricist - Charles LA Harper, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ran Pink, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stacy Barthe, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ike Schultz, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Timothy Prater, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Page Jr., ComposerLyricist - Sharone Scott, ComposerLyricist - Darnell Brock, ComposerLyricist - The Classmatez, Producer - Tykie Irby, Guitar, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Stacy Barthe's first album, following a handful of EPs and tracks released from 2013 through early 2015, begins with a song written after her attempted suicide. Its candid despair isn't liable to surprise anyone familiar with Barthe's previous work, like "Drink My Pain Away," or some of her darker compositions recorded by other artists. As a songwriter, Barthe's commercial successes include Rihanna's "Cheers (Drink to That)" and Miley Cyrus' "Adore You," but there are no party anthems or potential wedding songs on BEcoming, a rare major-label R&B album for soul-searching introverts. Aside from a cover of Anita Baker's quiet storm classic "Angel," on which she is joined by co-executive producer John Legend (whose Love in the Future contained an interlude-length version), Barthe co-wrote every song and is listed first each time. She details a mess of feelings and resigned observations. If they weren't arranged so neatly, or delivered in such a poised, almost cool fashion -- Barthe never oversings, rarely raises her voice -- the hour-length album would be hard to absorb, perhaps even for wallowers, in one sitting. Production-wise, BEcoming freely ranges from genre to genre -- contemporary R&B, folk, even a little dub and shadowy synth-pop -- and often blends them with finesse. The album's heart, however, is in its two barest songs, sequenced back to back. "Me Versus Me," a Grammy-worthy piano ballad, recalls the best of Carole King, while "Find It (Transition)," heaved along on nothing more than a bass drum and a few faint accents of piano and strings, completes the previous song's thoughts -- "It's still an uphill battle" -- with "I gotta find a new way to live." She should be well on her way.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:07
- Main artists: Stacy Barthe
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Homeschool - Motown
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2015 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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