Trouble (Natalia Kills album)
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Trouble is the second studio album by the English recording artist Natalia Kills. It was released on 3 September 2013 by Cherrytree Records through will.i.am Music Group and Interscope Records. The album's executive producer, Jeff Bhasker, carried out a number of tasks during the recording process, including being a co-writer and co-producer of all of the songs.
Trouble touches upon the deeply personal themes of Kills' life, depicting her childhood, her relationships and her adolescence, which are approached in greater detail than in her first album Perfectionist (2011). The album's artwork, designed by Kills, depicts objects which symbolise those topics. Trouble is a departure from the sounds of Perfectionist, mixing guitar-driven instrumentals with what Kills described as "high-impact pop",[1] because of the inclusion of hard beats in the songs.
At the time of its release, Trouble received generally positive reviews from contemporary music journalists, who noted Kills' evolution as a songwriter and favoured the album's production but criticised songs intended to broaden her sound. The record entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at number seventy with first-week sales of 6,000 copies. It became Kills' highest placing album on that chart, though with her lowest opening week sales to date.
The extensive promotion for the album included the release of singles and music videos, live performances and interviews for magazines and websites. " In September 2012—a year before the official release of Trouble—a music video for the promotional single "Controversy" was released, but the album's first single, "Problem", was not released until March 2013. A second single, "Saturday Night", was released three months later. "Outta Time" was also offered on iTunes as the record's second promotional single.
Background
Kills' first commercial release was a single titled "Don't Play Nice" in February 2005, which she released under the name Verbalicious on the All Around the World label.[2] Although the song peaked at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart,[3] the label went bankrupt shortly after the track's release.[4] Three years later, she co-wrote and provided vocals for "They Talk Shit About Me", a duet with French recording artist M. Pokora, as Verse.[5][6] She also released an extended play entitled Womannequin to digital retailers, under Natalia Cappuccini.[7]
In 2008, Kills started writing for other artists, under the alias Verbz. She also released a song named "Shopaholic", which was later remixed by Remix Artist Collective. American blogger Perez Hilton noticed that version and posted it online, which caused a lot of people to go to her MySpace. Such attention prompted will.i.am Music Group to sign her in November,[8] and Kills began recording material for Perfectionist, which was released in March 2011.[9][10] It peaked at number 129 on the UK Albums Chart,[11] and entered the US Billboard 200 at number 134.[12] During that year, she also collaborated with various recording artists, including The Knux,[13] Far East Movement,[14] and DJ Tatana.[15][16]
Development
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In March 2013, Kills confirmed that she had begun recording new material, and also announced that she was working with the American record producers Jeff Bhasker and Emile Haynie, along with the songwriting team The Smeezingtons.[17][18] Kills also collaborated with the American rapper Angel Haze.[19] Bhasker was the executive producer for the album, playing an important part in its development; he co-wrote every song on the album except "Daddy's Girl", and co-produced all of the songs except "Watching You". He also played piano, organ, guitar along with Danielle Haim and Jimmy Messer and keyboards with Emile Haynie. Haynie co-wrote two songs and was an additional producer on "Problem", "Boys Don't Cry" and the album's title track. Bhasker mixed the songs with Tony Maserati and did the engineering with Pawel Sek—who provided background vocals—Tyler Sam Johnson, Rob Suchecki and Messer. Programming was by Bhasker, Guillaume Doubet, Glass John, Haynie and Mike Will. Chris Athens mastered the tracks.[20] During an interview with Rolling Stone, Bhasker said his work on Trouble was "some of [his] best production yet", and that it "has its own dark angle on things".[21]
Kills said confronting her past was "torture", and that the songwriting process for this album was not "a release and [that it was] not therapeutic at all".[1] She explained that while she did not appreciate reliving certain moments of her life, it made her past "not obsolete", adding that it was her choice to write about her life, "to look back" and to remember.[1] However, she was advised to let go of all her past problems, and ignored such commentaries: "I am all of my worst memories in melodies. Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me. I'm sick of running away from things. I guess this whole album is me feeling glorified and vindicated by all the worst moments in my life."[1]
She reiterated those sentiments during an interview with Billboard, stating:
I feel with this album ... I'm confronting and marking down every bad thing, and making that into something important, because all that bad stuff, it stays with you, it defines you, it changes you. Whether it’s through strength or apprehension, through fear and hesitation or defiance and overcoming, it never leaves you. And I wanted to confront who I am and who I’ve been and everything that made me why I am how I am head-on—and most of it's bad, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good music, good intentions, good entertainment, even.[22]
Artwork
The artwork for Trouble shows Kills wearing a Prabal Gurung dress amidst objects including champagne bottles, police cars, watches and lipstick.[23][22] Kills made the collage for the cover art by printing pictures provided by Getty Images and cutting them.[20][22] She compared the cover art to a "little girl's inspiration board".[24] Kills said the album was "like a collage of all the worst memories and worst mistakes [she had] ever made", and she wanted to make the cover a real collage of "all of the items and moments" that are mentioned throughout the record.[22] Bianca Gracie from Idolator described it as 80s kitsch.[25] Kills said the symbolism behind the champagne and Rolex watches on the cover related to the song "Daddy's Girl", which contains the lyrics, "Let them take it all the way / The sweet Rozay, the Cartier / Stop the warden, call your name / I’d give you all my freedom, babe". She said it means that she would trade all of her family's possessions to have her father back with them.[22]
The champagne bottle represents Kills' father's choice of alcoholic beverage, the handcuffs symbolise Kills' problems with the police as a teenager, and the pearls and the roses represent the gifts which her boyfriends gave her to "fix" her.[24] The cover art also includes nail polish dripping from each side; Kills said she wanted the cover to have "melting feelings to it",[24] which she said was reminiscent of the times when she was 16, lived alone and tried to apply lipstick but could not do it properly. She also said, " ... every time I tried to paint my nails, it would end up completely fucked. I basically ended up painting my whole finger ... and it was dripping everywhere. And that kind of sensation is madness, that melting, dripping feeling of thinking you're in control, and you can do this and live life better than everyone else around ... And you make a mess of it ... I really wanted to find a way to capture that feeling, and that's way I [put the polish on the cover]."[24]
Composition
Kills chose for a new sound for the album, using guitar-driven instrumentals against "harder" beats rooted in pop music. Kills said that she felt "harder and aggressive", and that the album's sound is "renegade" and "high-impact pop",[1] and that there were no electro or dance music influences in the album.[27]
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Sam Johnson, writing for So So Gay, described "Television" as "Disney-esque" and "Rabbit Hole" as a "dark, leering" song which he compared to the works of Gwen Stefani,[28] saying that both contain "sinister" and dark lyrics set against a fast, even "skittering" production. "Rabbit Hole" was likened by Sam Lansky from Idolator to Kills' "Kill My Boyfriend"; Lansky also wrote that it skips the hyperbole of the aforementioned song.[29] "Problem" is built around a pop rock edge and was deemed a striptease anthem,[26] while the promotional single "Controversy" lists diverse items and situations, ranging from sexual addiction to cult leaders.[30] "Devils Don't Fly" and "Marlboro Lights" deviate from the dark and rock-influenced style of the previous tracks. Kills described "Devils Don't Fly" as a "suicide ballad"[31] that Lansky said contains "conceptually sharp" lyrics, such as "Everyone that holds my hand gets cut from all the thorns".[29] "Marlboro Lights" is a piano ballad.[29]
"Saturday Night" is a mid-tempo song with a new wave-inspired and synth-driven pop production, which is backed by lyrics that discuss "squandered youth and disenchantment"—including, "Momma you’re beautiful tonight / Movie star hair and that black eye / I can’t even notice it / When you smile so hard through a heartfelt lie".[32] According to Lansky, the eighth track, "Outta Time", is a "throwback [to] '60s girl-group swag",[29] and the "anthemic" title track takes on 90s-influenced pop rock, containing prominent stadium drums,[29][33] Kills chose "Daddy's Girl", a "thumping love song" that in its lyrics "explores her mother's devotion to her father" while he was incarcerated, as her favourite track on Trouble.[22] It samples the song "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates.[20]
Promotion
The announcement of Kills' second album was made with the release of a music video for its first promotional single "Controversy" in mid-September 2012.[30] During an interview with Glamour, Kills said, "I put ["Controversy"] out first because it's a verbal collage of things we see on a daily basis that we turn a blind eye to, especially in the Internet age, where you can literally see anything and everything instantly. This is where the world is now: We all laugh and joke when it's someone else's suffering."[34]
The album's first single, "Problem", was serviced to digital retailers by Interscope in mid-March 2013,[35] followed three months later by its music video.[36] In the same month, "Saturday Night" was chosen as Trouble's second single. It received mostly positive reviews from music critics.[28][37] On 3 January 2014, Cherrytree Records announced a competition to select cover artwork for her next single.[38]
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Kills attended an after-party for the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, held on 25 August 2013 in Brooklyn, New York City, where she performed various songs from Trouble. She said she was working to "making something on stage that is remotely accurate" to the cover art of the album and the sound of the songs.[22] Two days later, the song "Outta Time" was released free of charge in a Polydor Records newsletter.[39] Trouble was officially released on 3 September 2013 as a digital download in the United States and Canada.[40][41] A Compact Disc release was sent to stores in the US and Canada on 10 and 17 September 2013.[42][43] "Outta Time" was released as the album's second promotional recording free of charge, coinciding with the US release of Trouble.[44] On the same day, a lyric video for "Outta Time" was released on YouTube.[45]
For the US release of Trouble, "Boys Don't Cry" was premiered on the website of the magazine Glamour.[34] On 18 October 2013, a remix of the song was available on Cosmopolitan.[46] To promote the album and its singles, Kills was interviewed by a number of magazines and websites, including Billboard,[22] Teen Vogue,[47] Ladygunn,[48] Refinery29,[49] Playboy.[31] On 9 October 2013, Kills performed at a Chicago nightclub,[50] and on 31 December 2013 she performed at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.[51] She also performed an acoustic set for Yahoo! Music.[52] During a promotional trip in New Zealand, Kills attended the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.[53]
Reception
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AllMusic writer Matt Collar wrote that "while Kills isn't that far off from the P!nks and Lady Gagas of the world, she has enough of her own personality to keep your attention".[54] He also wrote that Trouble is a "dance-pop pantomime that artists have been trying to pull off ever since Madonna sang about a sexual experience so revelatory it gave her back her virginity", and that "when iconoclast status is the norm among female pop stars, the concept behind performers like Kills can start to feel a little facile".[54] He awarded the album a rating of three and a half points out of five.[54] Writing for Idolator, Sam Lansky said, "Kills has grown as a songwriter, now mining her experiences (in particular, her tortured past) with a richness and authenticity that didn’t always ring true on her debut". He linked the record's cohesiveness directly to Jeff Bhasker's executive production, and called the album "a great pop record".[29] Sam Johnson from So So Gay awarded the album four stars out of five, and described it as an evolution from Perfectionist and said that Kills' "largely biographical approach" to the album would "establish her as an artist".[28] However, Johnson was negative towards the ballads on the album.[28] Paula Yeoman from The New Zealand Herald awarded the album a rating of three and a half points out of five, and called it an album "that any decent pop aficionado should pay attention to".[55]
The Huffington Post writer Nik Thakkar wrote an open letter about Trouble, in which he asked whether the tabloid press "dictates genuine artistry" and urged readers to listen or purchase the album. He wrote, "Trouble deserves this visibility and radio play, so if you believe in it and in [Kills], share it, tell friends about it, call into radio stations to request it and most of all, buy it to give her this moment and the opportunity to share more with you".[56] Trouble was included in two year-end lists by Idolator; the first being a readers' poll of favourite albums of the year in which Kills' album was placed eighth.[57] The second was a post in which the website's contributors selected their favourite records of 2013; Trouble was chosen by contributor Mike Wass.[58] David Byrne and Tony Peregrin from the Windy City Times said the album was one of 2013's "excellent efforts".[59]
In its opening week, Trouble entered the US Billboard 200 at number 70 after selling nearly 6,000 copies—almost half that of Kills' previous album opening week sales, though it became her highest placing album on that chart.[60]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Television" |
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| 5:54 |
2. | "Problem" |
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| 3:43 |
3. | "Stop Me" |
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| 3:45 |
4. | "Boys Don't Cry" |
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| 3:36 |
5. | "Daddy's Girl" |
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| 3:33 |
6. | "Saturday Night" |
| Bhasker | 4:46 |
7. | "Devils Don't Fly" |
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| 4:37 |
8. | "Outta Time" |
| Bhasker | 3:42 |
9. | "Controversy" |
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| 4:51 |
10. | "Rabbit Hole" |
| 3:14 | |
11. | "Watching You" |
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| 3:49 |
12. | "Marlboro Lights" |
| Bhasker | 4:05 |
13. | "Trouble" |
| 4:19 | |
Total length: | 53:54 |
- Notes
- ^a denotes a co-producer
- ^b denotes an additional producer
- "Daddy's Girl" contains elements and excerpts from "Rich Girl", as performed by Hall & Oates and written by Daryl Hall.[20][22]
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Trouble.[20]
- Jeff Bhasker – production, programming, guitar, keyboards, engineering, mixing, piano, organ, background vocals, executive production
- Guillaume Doubet – co-production, programming
- Natalia Kills – vocals
- Glass John – programming, co-production
- Pawel Sek – engineering, background vocals
- Tony Maserati – mixing
- Chris Tabron – mixing
- Justin Hergett – mixing assistant
- James Krausse – mixing assistant
- Chris Athens – mastering
- Emile Haynie – additional production, programming, production, keyboards
- Mike Will – programming
- Tyler Sam Johnson – engineering
- Rob Suchecki – engineering
- Jimmy Messer – guitar, engineering
- Daniell Haim – guitar
Release history
Region | Date | Label | Format(s) |
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United States[40] | 3 September 2013 | Interscope Records | Digital download |
Canada[41] | |||
Australia[61] | 6 September 2013 | ||
Germany[62] | |||
Czech Republic[63] | 9 September 2013 | ||
United Kingdom[64] | |||
France[65] | |||
Spain[66] | |||
Italy[67] | |||
United States[42] | 10 September 2013 | Universal Music | CD |
Canada[43] | 17 September 2013 |
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