Influences:
Jazmine Marie Sullivan (born April 9, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.- Kim Burrell, Brandy, Dorinda Clark-Cole of The Clark Sisters, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder
From a young age, Jazmine was vocally proficient
Discography
Studio Albums
- Fearless (2008)Singles: "Need U Bad," "Bust Your Windows," "Lions, Tigers & Bears," and "Dream Big"
- Love Me Back (2010)Singles: "Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles)" and "10 Seconds"
- Reality Show (2015)Singles: "Dumb," "Forever Don't Last," and "Let It Burn"
Extended Plays
- Heaux Tales (2021)
- Heaux Tales, Mo' Tales (2022)
Singles: "Lost One," "Pick Up Your Feelings," "Girl Like Me," and "Hurt Me So Good."
I'll bust the windows out your tropes:
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Bonus Material: Heaux Tales, Mo' Tales expanded the original EP with five more songs and five more tales to go with them. - Cannot Spit It Out: "Stuttering."
- Concept Album: Heaux Tales. The songs from this EP (album at this point) were inspired by a collection of stories told by a group of women about their experiences with sex and relationships.
- Darker and Edgier: 2021's Heaux Tales serves as this for her.
- Destructive Romance: Jazmine has quite a few songs where this is a theme.
- In "In Love With Another Man," she says that she always seems to fight with her boyfriend who doesn't treat her right.
- "Holding You Down (Goin' In Circles)"
- In "Live A Lie," Jazmine expresses that she would rather live in delusion than to find out that her partner has been unfaithful.
- Fear Song: "Lions, Tigers, and Bears" and "Fear" from Fearless.
- Fool for Love: "Stupid Girls."Boys have toys too
You know they do
They call us stupid girls
They call us stupid girls
And when you love 'em like I do
You'll be a fool
You'll be a stupid girl
You'll be a stupid girl - Hotter and Sexier: Heaux Tales. Despite the fact Jazmine has sung about similar topics prior, this album and era see Jazmine taking on a more openly alluring and sexual aesthetic.
- "I Hate" Song: "U Get On My Nerves" featuring Ne-Yo.
- Hopeless Suitor: "In Love With Another Man" is about Jazmine turning away one suitor in favor of another.
- Intercourse with You: "On It" from Heaux Tales is all about sex.
- Let's Duet:
- "U Get On My Nerves" with Ne-Yo from Love Me Back.
- "On It" with Ari Lennox and "Girl Like Me" with HER from Heaux Tales.
- "Our Love" with Curtis Harding for Arcane.
- Leon Bridges's "Summer Rain."
- Mali Music's "Loved By You."
- Niia's "Sideline."
- PJ Morton's "Built For Love."
- Love Is a Drug: "Veins."
- Melismatic Vocals: Jazmine is one of the best post-90s examples. She has many videos of her as a young girl showing she's been vocally dexterous for all her life. Her riff at the end of "Insecure" inspired an online singing challenge to replicate it back in 2020.
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a video of an eleven-year-old Jazmine covering Stephanie Mills's "Home" from The Wiz.
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- Murder Ballad: Jazmine cries to her mother about being abused by her lover before deciding to preemptively kill him in "Call Me Guilty."
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: She becomes this in "Bust Your Windows."
- Sampling:
- Fearless
- "Bust Your Windows" samples Salaam Remi's "Bad Man Waltz."
- "Need U Bad" samples
- "My Foolish Heart" samples Willie Mitchell's "Groovin'."
- "Lions, Tigers, and Bears" samples Salaam Remi's "Sheila's Playground."
- "Fear" samples Art of Noise's "Beat Box."
- Reality Show
- "Let It Burn" samples After 7's "Ready Or Not."
- Fearless
- Scatting: She is fond of this technique as seen in "Brand New," and "'Round Midnight."
- Sex for Services: "Price Tags" and its accompanying interlude, "Donna's Tale," invoke this. The relationship between the two characters in this song is solely built on the exchange of money for sex.
- Hunnids, hunnids in my hand
Want it, want it? Spend them bands
Yeah, imma take all I can get
That money keeps that pussy wet
- Shout-Out:
- "Lions, Tigers, and Bears" serves as this to The Wizard of Oz, or maybe The Wiz, in which she starred as Dorothy in her childhood.
- Jazmine references Beyoncé’s “Freakum Dress” on “Mascara.”No, I ain’t got a job but
So what?
I don’t need it when I’m gettin’ everything that I want
And everything that I ask for
I wear that freakum dress for daddy and he give me more
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Spiritual Successor: Heaux Tales can be considered this for "Mascara" from Reality Show. The song's concepts of sexuality and money are more thoroughly developed on Heaux Tales. - What Did I Do Last Night?: "Bodies (Intro)."
- A Wild Rapper Appears!:
