All I Want Is You (album)

All I Want Is You
Studio album by Miguel
Released November 30, 2010
Genre R&B, neo soul
Length 42:47
Label ByStorm, Jive
Producer Dre & Vidal, Fisticuffs, Happy Perez, Salaam Remi, State of Emergency
Miguel chronology
All I Want Is You
(2010)		 Kaleidoscope Dream
(2012)
Singles from All I Want Is You
  1. "All I Want Is You"
    Released: May 25, 2010
  2. "Sure Thing"
    Released: January 17, 2011
  3. "Quickie"
    Released: August 2, 2011
  4. "Girls Like You"
    Released: November 8, 2011

All I Want Is You is the debut studio album of American R&B recording artist Miguel, released on November 30, 2010, by Jive Records and ByStorm Entertainment. It was produced by Dre & Vidal, Fisticuffs, Happy Perez, State of Emergency and Salaam Remi. All I Want Is You is an R&B and neo soul album that incorporates elements of hip hop, funk, rock and electro. Its songs generally deal with romantic and sexual subject matter.

The album had been shelved by Jive for two years before its release.[1] It debuted at number 109 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 11,000 copies in its first week. Despite a poor performance upon its release,[1] All I Want Is You ultimately became a sleeper hit,[2] peaking at number 37 and spending 45 weeks on the Billboard 200. The album was well received by contemporary music critics, who complimented Miguel's singing and musical style, despite finding the album inconsistent. As of September 2012, it has sold 404,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Background

In 2007, Miguel was signed Jive Records-imprint label ByStorm Entertainment.[3] He subsequently recorded All I Want Is You, but legal issues with his former production company prevented the album from being released for two years.[3] Miguel continued working with various underground acts and writing for mainstream recording artists.[4]

Recording sessions for the album took place at Black Mango Studios in Van Nuys, California, Germano Studios in New York City, Glenwood Studios and Instrument Zoo in Miami, Florida, Studio 609 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and The Gym in Los Angeles, California.[5]

Music and lyrics

All I Want Is You is an R&B and neo soul album.[6][7] Its music incorporates elements of hip hop, funk, rock and electro.[8] The album's first five tracks comprise two romantic songs, a contradictory interlude, a song about a prostitute, and another about a quickie. The closing track "My Piece" uses a "piece"-"peace" homonym.[9]

Music critic Robert Christgau finds the "supplicant's" song "Teach Me" to be "unprecedented" in "a genre that makes its nut promising untold pleasures", and credits it for "laying out the truth that, as Norman Mailer put it in one of the few useful sex tips in his orgasm-mad canon, 'the man as lover is dependent upon the bounty of the woman.' Who knows what pleases her? She does, she alone, and Miguel craves to be let in on that shifting and enthralling secret."[9]

Release and promotion

The album was released by Bystorm Entertainment and Jive,[10] on November 30, 2010.[11] In an interview for Billboard, Miguel said of Jive's marketing of the album, "That album was a huge learning experience. I left the marketing of my album and me as an artist up to the discretion of the label. They marketed me like the typical R&B artist, which I can't really blame them for, because that's what they know. But that's not what my lifestyle was."[3]

The album's lead single, "All I Want Is You", was released as a digital download on April 28.[12] It is a bass-heavy, neo soul song that features rapper J. Cole.[13] The song spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 58, and 21 weeks on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, peaking at number seven on the chart.[14] As it gradually attained radio airplay, Miguel began touring as a supporting act for Usher and Trey Songz.[3] The second single "Sure Thing" received heavy rotation on urban mainstream radio stations and became a number-one hit on the radio format's airplay chart in May 2011.[10] The single spent 19 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 36, and 25 weeks on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, peaking at number one.[15] By May 2011, "All I Want Is You" and "Sure Thing" had reached a combined digital/mobile sales of over 825,000 units.[10]

"Quickie" and "Girls Like You" were also released as singles.[16] In July 2011, Miguel shot a dual video for the songs.[17] "Quickie" was sent to Top 40/Rhythmic-Crossover radio on August 2.[18] "Girls Like You" was sent to urban adult contemporary radio on November 8.[19]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[6]
AllMusic[20]
MSN MusicB+[9]
Slant Magazine[21]

All I Want Is You debuted at number 109 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 11,000 copies.[22] After falling off the chart for three weeks, it re-entered the Billboard 200 and climbed the chart for 22 weeks, before peaking at number 37 on May 14, 2011.[23] All I Want Is You ultimately spent 45 weeks on the Billboard 200, and it reached number nine on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, on which it charted for 72 weeks.[24] As of September 2012, it has sold 404,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[3]

In a review for About.com, critic Mark Edward Nero said "despite the various musical styles, Miguel somehow manages to vocally glide across each one",[6] while David Jeffries from AllMusic complimented his "Prince-meets-Kanye-meets-electro style" and called the album "slick, sexy, and filled with [Miguel's] sly sense of humor".[20] Despite viewing it as inconsistent and "schizophrenic", B. Wright of Vibe praised Miguel's "vocal and pen skills" and called the album "worth the purchase price".[25] Slant Magazine's Matthew Cole found its second half to be "less stimulating", but wrote that the album "blends slick, radio-friendly R&B with Prince-aping theatrics, both refracted around a sense of humor that, surreal and sexually unsubtle, would have to make His Royal Badness proud".[21] He compared Miguel to Kelis, "whose work has an undeniably commercial cunning to it, but who never fails to imbue her pop confections with real personality".[21] Evan Rytlewski of The A.V. Club called it a "stubborn thing" in a retrospective article, writing of its performance in general:

Though its poor initial showing on the charts seemed to affirm [Jive]'s lack of faith in it, the record gradually discovered an audience over the next year thanks to a trickle of ingratiating singles that established Miguel as one of radio’s rarest commodities: a new R&B star. With its splatters of off-kilter funk and mesmeric electro, All I Want Is You teased a unique vision without coloring too far outside the boundaries of popular R&B.[1]

In a 2012 consumer guide for MSN Music, Robert Christgau felt that Miguel "front-loads his Prince-channeling debut" with "five hooky tracks" that are "followed by six pleasant tracks and capped by two hooky novelties".[9] He viewed the song "Teach Me" as "a treasure hidden in the middle" for its subject matter, but felt that it lacks "a top-drawer melody" to make it "a 'Use Me' or 'Sexual Healing' [Miguel] could sing forever."[9]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s)Producer(s) Length
1. "Sure Thing"  Miguel Pimentel, Jawan PimentelHappy Perez 3:14
2. "All I Want Is You" (featuring J. Cole)Salaam Remi, Miguel Pimentel, Jermaine ColeSalaam Remi 4:55
3. "Girl with the Tattoo (Enter.Lewd)"  Miguel Pimentel  1:42
4. "Pay Me"  Miguel Pimentel, Mac Robinson, Brian WarfieldFisticuffs 2:57
5. "Quickie"  Miguel Pimentel, Mac Robinson, Brian WarfieldFisticuffs 3:46
6. "Girls Like You"  Miguel Pimentel, Mac Robinson, Brian WarfieldFisticuffs 3:23
7. "Overload (Enter.Lewd)"  Miguel Pimentel  0:31
8. "Hard Way"  Salaam Remi, Miguel PimentelSalaam Remi 3:49
9. "Teach Me"  Miguel Pimentel, Darnley ScantleburyState Of Emergency 5:22
10. "Hero"  Miguel Pimentel, Andre Harris, Vidal DavisDre & Vidal 3:47
11. "Vixen"  Miguel Pimentel, Mac Robinson, Brian WarfieldFisticuffs 3:01
12. "To the Moon"  Miguel Pimentel, Harry Zelnick, Alex Chiegger, Andre Harris, Vidal DavisDre & Vidal 3:23
13. "My Piece"  Miguel Pimentel, Nathan PerezHappy Perez 2:55

Personnel

Credits for All I Want Is You adapted from AllMusic.[26]

  • Raymond Angry – keyboards, strings
  • Wayne Barrow – executive producer
  • Anita Marisa Boriboon – art direction, design
  • Alex Chiegger – instrumentation
  • Tom Coyne – mastering
  • Kumi Craig – grooming
  • Vidal Davis – instrumentation, mixing, producer
  • Daniel DeLuna – 12-string bass guitar
  • Gleyder "Gee" Disla – engineer
  • Vince Dlorinzo – engineer
  • Ryan Evans – engineer
  • Andre Harris – instrumentation, producer
  • Kasey Phillips – engineer
  • Erik Madrid – assistant
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Miguel – engineer, vocals
  • Happy Perez – drums, keyboards, producer, programming
  • Miguel Pimentel – executive producer
  • Mark Pitts – A&R, executive producer
  • Christian Plata – assistant
  • Kai Regan – photography
  • Salaam Remi – bass, drums, guitar
  • Anthony Saleh – production coordination
  • Wendell "Pops" Sewell – guitar
  • State of Emergency – producer
  • Steve Bruner – bass
  • Tim Stewart – guitar
  • Jahi Sundance – programming
  • Mike Tsarfati – engineer
  • Harry Zelnick – instrumentation

Charts

Chart (2011) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[27] 37
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[28] 9

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rytlewski, Evan (October 9, 2012). "Miguel: Kaleidoscope Dream". The A.V. Club (Chicago). Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  2. ↑ "Q&A: Miguel". Soul Train. March 24, 2011. Retrieved 2012-10-17.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Lipshutz, Jason (September 21, 2012). "Miguel's 'Kaleidoscope Dream': Inside The R&B Dynamo's Fresh Start". Billboard. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
  4. ↑ Jeffries, David. "Miguel". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
  5. ↑ Miguel - All I Want Is You CD Album. Muze. CD Universe. Retrieved on 2011-06-08.
  6. 1 2 3 Nero, Mark Edward (November 30, 2010). Miguel - All I Want Is You. About.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-17.
  7. ↑ Hogan, Marc (July 26, 2012). "Stream Miguel's Three-Song 'Kaleidoscope Dream: Water Preview'". Spin (New York). Retrieved 2012-10-22.
  8. ↑ Newman, Jason (May 16, 2011). "MTV PUSH Artist Of The Week: Miguel". MTV Buzzworthy Blog. MTV Networks. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Christgau, Robert (December 28, 2012). "Miguel". MSN Music. Microsoft. Archived from the original on December 28, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  10. 1 2 3 Jive Label Group (May 9, 2011). Singer/Songwriter Miguel's Hit Single "Sure Thing" No. 1 on the R&B Singles Chart. Press release. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  11. ↑ Album Cover + Tracklisting: Miguel – ‘All I Want Is You’. Rap-Up. November 8, 2010. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  12. ↑ All I Want Is You: Miguel featuring J.Cole: MP3 Downloads. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  13. ↑ Harvey, Jeff (October 19, 2011). "J Cole". Okayplayer. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  14. ↑ All I Want Is You - Miguel. Billboard. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  15. ↑ Sure Thing - Miguel. Billboard. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  16. ↑ Muhammad, Latifah (July 1, 2011). Miguel to Release Two New Singles Simultaneously. TheBoombox. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  17. ↑ On Set of Miguel’s ‘Quickie’/’Girls Like You’ Video. Rap-Up. July 19, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  18. ↑ "Top 40 Rhythmic Future Releases". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
  19. ↑ "Urban/UAC Future Releases". All Access Music Group. November 8, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  20. 1 2 Jeffries, David. "All I Want Is You - Miguel". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
  21. 1 2 3 Cole, Matthew (December 3, 2010). Miguel: All I Want Is You | Music Review. Slant Magazine. Retrieved on 2011-03-17.
  22. ↑ Concepcion, Mariel (December 8, 2010). Soulja Boy, Flo Rida Flop On Billboard Album Chart. Billboard. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  23. ↑ Ramirez, Erika (June 10, 2011). "Chart Juice: Miguel Describes His Sound & Announces Next Singles". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  24. ↑ All I Want Is You - Miguel. Billboard. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  25. ↑ Wright, B. (December 7, 2010). Review: Miguel's 'All I Want Is You'. Vibe. Retrieved on 2011-03-17.
  26. ↑ All I Want Is You - Miguel: Credits. AllMusic. Retrieved on 2011-06-08.
  27. ↑ Miguel Album & Song Chart History – Billboard 200. Billboard. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.
  28. ↑ Miguel Album & Song Chart History – R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Billboard. Retrieved on 2011-07-22.

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