Mel Jade
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Established. Jan 01, 2000 | SELF
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Independent pop chic Mel Jade couldn’t have asked for a better lift-off on her music career than when the worlds best grandmaster DJ, Armin Van Buuren rocketed sales of her debut effort “Aliens” by slipping it into a segment of his radio show – broadcast in Holland.
From then onwards it’s been pretty much the norm for Aussie sheila Mel Jade to be seen racking up the hits online, in some instances virally.
Beneath Mel’s candy girl exterior, lies an artist with an ultimate passion for all things music, open to embrace a crisscross of genres and wily enough to implement them into the fabric of her vivaciously variegated debut pop project “Alive”.
Mel Jade’s eclectically bound underground pop outlook marries up dance floor ready electro pop romps in the form of the juicy buzz vibrant “Electric”, “Fascinated”, and “Trash And Treasure”, further mingling her prowess alongside with powering electronic rock chic aspects that manifest via the impressively crafted “One Two”, “Monday” and “You”.
Whilst Mel presents the vivid character of pop enthusiastically well, she’s also adept at reining in the party girl antics and in complement showcases her softer side with significantly sweeping exotic ballad “I Promise” and the dewy “We Can Make A Movie”.
Furthermore, Mel’s not adverse to a quirky moment also, serendipitously slipping in a curve-balling hip-pop number “Hypnotic”, that’s coloured-up in talk-rap swagger.
“Alive” stays true to the preface of ideology behind it, as quoted by Mel Jade in a press release; “the songs are all about taking chances, pushing boundaries and doing exactly what you want to do, so that’s what I’m doing.”
However, what remains key factor here is, Mel Jade achieves a competent compendium of tracks totally of her own direction as an all embraced independent artist in all senses of the word.
To step-off the mark with a good accomplished boundary pushing effort as Mel Jade’s debut album release, is for the most part quite indicative of some considerable knowledge of musicianship that has gone in to make “Alive” work as an engaging, self assured and skilfully multifaceted music fusion project, that most pop newcomers could only strive to execute from the offset. Mel Jade defies the odds and achieves her own brand of pop. - EQ Music Blog
Resident electrocutie and Australian mega-pop-babe Mel Jade‘s debut album, the aptly titled ‘Alive!,’ dropped today. The independent Australian artist – though not quite of Kylie status yet – is a club staple in her homeland, but all that is about to change with the release of her stellar debut album.
Brimming with futuristic, swagger-filled pop gems reminiscent of Lady Gaga’s debut ‘The Fame,’ Mel Jade’s ‘Alive!’ contains a surprisingly unapologetic rock n’ roll spirit that is steeped and coated in delicious sticky-sweet polished pop candy.
Whether beckoning you to the dance-floor on colorful club bangers (“Electric,” “Fascinated“) or dialing it down on twinkly, raw electro ballads (“We Could Make A Movie,” “I Promise“), Mel Jade constantly delivers a nice big hook and a sense that underneath the synthesizers and strobe lights, this is a very personal album.
Despite her glossy pop leanings, Mel Jade is, at the heart of things, truly an empowered underground artist; an indie diva who knows what she wants and what she likes. And with a talent for hypnotic vocals, mesmerizing hooks, and big electro-pop ballads that are, at their soul, a little quirky, personal, and real, it’s no wonder that her debut feels so very alive. - Electrocutie Music Blog
Resident electrocutie and Australian mega-pop-babe Mel Jade‘s debut album, the aptly titled ‘Alive!,’ dropped today. The independent Australian artist – though not quite of Kylie status yet – is a club staple in her homeland, but all that is about to change with the release of her stellar debut album.
Brimming with futuristic, swagger-filled pop gems reminiscent of Lady Gaga’s debut ‘The Fame,’ Mel Jade’s ‘Alive!’ contains a surprisingly unapologetic rock n’ roll spirit that is steeped and coated in delicious sticky-sweet polished pop candy.
Whether beckoning you to the dance-floor on colorful club bangers (“Electric,” “Fascinated“) or dialing it down on twinkly, raw electro ballads (“We Could Make A Movie,” “I Promise“), Mel Jade constantly delivers a nice big hook and a sense that underneath the synthesizers and strobe lights, this is a very personal album.
Despite her glossy pop leanings, Mel Jade is, at the heart of things, truly an empowered underground artist; an indie diva who knows what she wants and what she likes. And with a talent for hypnotic vocals, mesmerizing hooks, and big electro-pop ballads that are, at their soul, a little quirky, personal, and real, it’s no wonder that her debut feels so very alive. - Electrocutie Music Blog
Discography
Remix: Pretty Boys from St. Tropez ft. Mel Jade "Aliens"
Remix: DJ Farre ft. Mel Jade "Rock and Roll"
Single: Mel Jade "Not That Serious"
Album: Mel Jade "Alive"
Single: Mel Jade "You"
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Roll up, roll up! Introducing Australian pop singer Mel Jade.
Singing has been Mel Jade's number one love from a very early age.
I actually can't remember a time when I wasn't singing. she says, When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up at first I answered Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast', but when I realised that becoming a fictional cartoon character wasn't really a viable career option, I set my sights on singing instead.
Mel Jade wrote her first song in the bathtub at the age of three called 'I never thought a seahorse could drown'.
It was a very tragic song she laughs, but Mel Jade's love of singing and songwriting didn't stop there.
Mel Jade stepped onto the scene with her track 'Aliens' which was remixed and released by the Pretty Boys of Saint Tropez in Europe. The remix hit the charts after top DJ Armin Van Buuren picked it up and played it on his radio segment in Holland.
Mel Jade then embarked on an independent solo project and released her debut album 'Alive', a poetic yet catchy underground pop record.
It was both scary and exciting to start this project completely on my own. But the songs are all about taking chances, pushing boundaries and doing exactly what you want to do, so that's what I did!
Excitingly, the home made video Mel Jade created for her song 'We Could Make a Movie' hit over a million views on YouTube in a matter of weeks. Fashion TV aired behind the scenes footage from her 'Not That Serious' music video and she toured the UK promoting 'Alive'. Upon returning to Australia she was honoured with an Australian Independent Music Award for her album.
Mel Jade describes her style as pop infused with a million other influences as she listens to everything from rock to blues to classical to dirrty electro.
I just mash everything I like together Mel Jade says, and this cocktail of influences which she has fused and injected with her own poetic lyrics that speak of risk, fantasy, feeling alive and retro romance means the singer has emerged with her own brand of pop.
Though she's dripping with candy, Mel Jade also has something very raw and real about her. She is both recklessly fun and thoughtfully poetic, girl-next-door and glamorous, naughty and sweet, untouchable and approachable (she always replies to her followers on Facebook and Twitter).
I bought a huge bag of glitter off eBay, so I'm pretty much prepared for anything now.
So there you are, she's armed herself with songs and sparkles, and wants YOU on her team.
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