Jessie J Covers

    Thought we would check out some covers by Jessie this week. The most popular cover on you tube by Jessie would have to be We Found Love a Calvin Harris song originally recorded by Rihanna. Jessies version has a complete different feel to Rihannas original which has more of a club feel to it. While Jess turns it into a more of a love interpretation.
   

We Found Love 

  
Our next cover is Climax originally done by Usher. Which Jess started to include in her live shows around July this year. She has'nt performed it outside her stage show so the quality is'nt perfect but it is pure Jessica Cornish. She sings it as she feels it! The best quality recording i think is the one recorded at the FIB Festival Benicassim Spain.

Climax

     Just discovered this studio version of the Bee Gees You Should Be Dancing Jessie J and Tinie Tempah so wanted to include this in the post as well. Excellent Cover ! Love it!

You Should Be Dancing

      Never Too Much by Luther Van Dross is a cover Jess adds to the start of Abracadabra in her stage shows and it always sounds super when she performs it! I have chosen the Hackney weekend clip here! At the start she will have the crowd warming up which is typical Jessie J. She is always doing quirky things during her shows and this is what makes them so entertaining.Whether it be voice warm ups, making up songs on the spot or a crowd singalong. You never know what to expect from her!

Never Too Much

         Young Blood by Naked and famous is the next cover. She seems to get alot of criticism on how she sung this! I think she does an OK job with it considering its a song done for Radio one on request it was'nt rehearsed and she needed the lyric sheet! Anyway its a pleasant recording I reckon so thought I would include it here!
 
Young Blood



    Our last cover, I thought we might include is actually a song she wrote herself but was a number one worldwide hit for Miley Cyrus! Party in the USA! We will get to hear the original lyrics before they were changed to suit the US market! She only performs this on rare occassions when requested and the recording we have chosen goes back to before she was in the spotlight! Welcome to the land of fame and sex!

Party in the USA 



More Jessie Covers
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
I Have Nothing
Mockingbird
Price Tag/Written in the Stars
You Should Be Dancing

Jessie J in Close Up

     This week we are going to check out the amazing Jessica Cornish in close up. Finding out whats on the horizon and looking at the intensity and beauty in her performances. Her book is completed and should be out sometime in September. During her Romania gig she was talking about finishing it while poolside with her band in Ibiza last week. In this Romanian concert she was as cute as ever. Talking about the bug problems she was having on stage similar to Istanbul. When as she tweeted she had swallowed half the cast of Bug's Life! While before her performance of Climax here she was wondering how many bugs she was going to catch while opening her mouth wide for the big notes. The Romanian concert looked so much fun with plenty of audience participation.
          Our first clip this week Hey little bugs come to your Mama or Nemo and the shark. Followed by her talking about her book before performing Stand Up. She tweeted an exclusive look at the books cover as well and a photo of her before performing in Portugal which had all heartbeats in attendance as it was live streamed on Jessies facebook page!   
   Don't forget coming up this week two more live shows Sandown Park,also the open air festival at Zofingen Switzerland and to finish the week is the closing ceremony  for the Olympics. Where she is performing with Queen. We Will Rock You!

Speech Nemo in with the Sharks 

Chat for England

      Our next concert we are going to check out this week is the Vitaman Water Roundhouse concert. Where Ronnie Wood and his girlfriend along with athletes from the Olympic Village were in attendance. Early in the week she had done a web chat for Vitamin water and her fans! She looked so amazing in this concert and one my favorite clips to appear so far is the Casualty of Love clip with some great close ups of that beautiful focused face of Jessica Cornish.

Casualty of Love

Mama Knows Best Roundhouse

Vitamin Water Web Chat

     To finish off this week I wanted to flashback to Warwick Castle and the HMV show. To highlight these beautiful close up fan recordings. The first is Jess singing happy birthday to Jimahl and the other singing to Shannon's phone. She leaves fans with so many beautiful memories! 


 

Happy Birthday Jimahl Warwick Castle

Singing to Shannon's Phone

A Week in Concert with Jessie J

    Thought we would take a close look at the amazing voice and charisma of Jessie J in concert this week! Her three performances for the week spread across Europe. The first at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.There was another at Warwick Castle and the final performance was at the FIB festival at Benicassim Spain. The better quality footage comes from the Spain show but if I had to make a choice between the three as which was the better performance I would say Montreux!

 Montreux Show
Who You Are 

Never Too Much / Abracadabra 

      The Warwick Castle show was very entertaining and had a lot of crowd/fan contact and chat. Which I enjoy immensly. It had alot of interesting and memorable moments. One being a verse of the first song Jess ever wrote at the age of nine. There was also a guest appearance by Team Jessie Voice contestant Becky Hill, who Jess spotted in the crowd and asked up on stage to perform Price Tag with her. There was plenty of objects being thrown on stage including notes and a hat which Jess asked if the girl had clean hair before placing it on her own head. There was plenty of chat between Jess and fans in the front including a happy birthday singalong to Jamahl with an amusing flashback to Jessie's 15th birthday celebrations. I love the voice warmups as well for her fans. Abslolutely love the way this lady gets everyone involved band members,crowd, security,support acts whether it be in voice warmups,singalongs or chatting she is one unique entertainer.  A cameraman also got a very close up shot of Jess before she realized he was there and crossed her legs. I suppose you got a take your opportunity .She then went on to explain.That she had only just arrived from Switzerland and had'nt  time to soundcheck! Overall such a fun entertaining show. Loved it!

 Warwick Castle Show

Chatting and Happy Birthday

The Warm Up

   The Spain concert was an awesome show with plenty of unique moments. Her Climax cover was one of the highlights and of course a ripper version of Who You Are, she was really feeling it here. Its hard to say if  Montreux or this version was better, both were amazing. Her speech in Montreux was so spot on but musically Spain was perfection . I have to say Laserlight is really growing on me . When she performs it live,she really sparks it up and it sounds so much better without the Guetta influence.I love her fingers to her lips at the end of the line. Who needs words when forever is in the silence! I have to mention something else and that is she was using the F.. word in this show. I am wondering if it was'nt a age limited show.

Laserlight  

Nobody's Perfect

   Now to my favorite show of the week Montreux. The crowd were really pumped on her entry with Do It Like A Dude and she did'nt let them down. Woohoo!Love the shorts Jess! You look hotter than the fires of hell! I also noticed she seemed to be channeling Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz with her Red Shoe look this week! Fun chat before and after songs here to and talking about Will I Am and her idea of getting a hologram microphone stand because hers is so boring!Now that would be something! Love it! Great idea! Then she sings another super version of Climax.
        She was really getting the jazz feeling going at the Jazz festival with a super version of Mama Knows Best and great crowd interaction on all songs including a fun band introduction piece with crowd interaction! Her and the band are really becoming so connected and I think this is why the shows have been so rocking of late! They have a super rapport!  Love her two backup singers!They are excellent ! There were so many super performances here. Its hard to separate . Domino the closing number had so much going on with Jess down amongst the crowd and there was a great performance of my favorite Jess song Casualty of Love. I would have included that clip here but the Never Too Much/Abracadabra clip is better quality so we will have to go with that one and the Who You Are clip. I am going to include two clips for this the one with the speech because of the awesome quality and then the full Who You Are performance.

Montreux Climax

Domino

Band introductions and crowd interactions

Jessie J Treasure Hunting

    I thought we might look at some of the treasures I have found this week on the Jessica Cornish adventure! Its amazing what you can find if you search the net! I think my favorite would be the Knock on Wood cover she did in Memphis last year! There is also Mothers Ballad done for the Don't Trigger campaigne back when she was signed to gut records in 2007 . She also did one of her own compositions titled The Long Goodbye but have yet to track down a clear, full version. Then in Istanbul on her European tour  this week she did a cover of  Usher's Climax. I am really keen at hearing a studio version of this because this fan recorded concert version sounds super so imagine what a professionally recorded version will sound like. I can't wait!

   Our final two clips are from the same concert back in 2008. They are Finders Keepers and Sexy Silk both Jessica Cornish written songs! She is one wild chicky babe ! I just love it when she let's go like at the end of Knock On Wood and during these two live recordings!  Will you be my medicine man put your hand on my chest,feel the bump! bump! bump! bump! 

Knock On Wood Live featuring Jennifer Hudson 

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Knock on Wood

Climax Live Istanbul Concert June 28th

Mothers Ballad 2007

Finders Keepers Live 2008

Sexy Silk Live 2008