I was really hopeful when I heard Dinah Jane kicking off the song, knowing that the 5 girls usually share the verses. What lowered it down in my favourite list is the fact that the song lacks what Fifth Harmony has been growing really good at, the harmony. Though the next song “Worth It,” featuring Los Angeles rapper Kid Ink, is not in my Top 5 favourites production wise, I can understand why it became some people’s jam. The saxophone in the beginning gives the song a very Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty”-esque beat, the kind of beat that gets overplayed on radio, with a chorus that’s pretty repetitive and easy to remember. The song’s strong radio appeal had the girls being asked to perform their single on Good Morning America and even at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards. Written by the “All About That Bass” singer Meghan Trainor, the single soon became a synth-pop anthem about the thrill that you feel when your crush is around. Next up is the girls’ latest single, “Sledgehammer,” that peaked at number 3 on iTunes, becoming the group’s highest peak on the iTunes chart. And if you want to do just that, you may as well go check the dance tutorial their own choreographer put on Youtube. It makes you want to get up and dance all the while praising Michelle Obama and encouraging young women to find confidence and showcase it the way the First Lady does. It was a very good choice for a first single for it’s sassy, catchy, and very radio friendly. The same theme is basically embodied in the track that follows “BO$$,” the very first single the girls released for their album.
The upbeat song is a good introduction to Reflection in the way that it highlights the major theme of the album: girl empowerment.
The 5 girls -now aged 18 to 21- have matured and they are now ready to fight and to show the world what their actual music style is in an album dealing with trust, self-confidence and empowerment.Īnd this change of vibe is effective from the very first track of the album, “Top Down.” Through fun and catchy lyrics, the girls introduce their new sound, that’s been partially influenced by the amount of time the 4 non-California natives of the group (Ally & Normani being from Texas, Lauren & Camila from Miami, FL) have been spending in the “electric city” that is Los Angeles, CA. Long gone is the group of young impressionable 15 to 19 year-old girls. However, those first 7 songs had already given people quite a good idea of what the album would sound like (aka nothing like their friendly-pop EP). Kid Ink).Īnd though these 4 songs, along with “We Know,” “Reflection,” and “Going Nowhere” (that some lucky fans had gotten to hear live during their latest tour) had received quite a good feedback from the public, there were still another 7 songs that fans had yet to discover. The girls had already released 4 singles prior to the streaming: their now infamous anthem to First Lady Michelle Obama “BO$$,” but also “Them Girls Be Like,” “Sledgehammer,” and “Worth It” (feat. As a long-time fan, I saw them not only grow closer, but also harmonize better and evolve together throughout the years.Īnd though this happens to be the 5 girls’ very first album, it is definitively not the first time we hear from them! Indeed, throughout the past two years, the girls released 5 versions of their first EP Better Together (in English, English Acoustic, Spanish, Spanish Acoustic & Remix) and went on tour with big names of the industry (Demi Lovato, Cher Lloyd, Austin Mahone) in addition to their own couple of small headlining tours (Harmonize America Mall Tour, Worst Kept Secret Tour, 5th Times a Charm Tour).īut I can already tell you that 2015 is going to be these girls’ year!īecause though we’re not even a month into the new year, the girls have indeed already announced their first major headlining tour across North America! But before heading on tour, everything the girls have worked for had to go through a final test: the iTunes streaming of their upcoming album, out February 3rd.
Now before we go into details, I’ve got to say I’ve been a huge supporter of the five girls - Lauren Jauregui, Dinah Jane Hansen, Normani Kordei Hamilton, Ally Brooke Hernandez and Camila Cabello- since they were put together into a girl group by Demi Lovato, Simon Cowell, Britney Spears and LA Reid on The X Factor USA three years ago. It will have taken two years, an artwork change and two push-backs, but Fifth Harmony‘s debut album, Reflection, is (finally!!) streaming on iTunes, and I couldn’t be happier!