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There's seemingly nowhere to go but down for diva-in-the-waiting Paula Cole, but the brunette chanteuse will attempt to upstage herself anyway. After receiving an amazing seven Grammy nominations for her 1996 breakthrough This Fire, Cole returns with the self-produced Amen, due out Sept. 28.
According to manager John Carter, the "little more urban" album
features only nine songs, but clocks in at fifty-five minutes long.
The first single, "I Believe in Love" (featuring a Barry
White-esque string section), will go to radio in mid-September, and
be accompanied by a music video that will be shot in a couple of
weeks with a yet-undermined director.
Guests on the album include TLC's Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and
producer-scratcher DJ Premier, who appears on "Rhythm of Life,"
which Cole raps on. "Missy's Feelin' Love," a newly recorded
version of This Fire's "Feelin' Love" featuring Missy
"Misdemeanor" Elliott, will appear on Japanese and Australian
versions of Amen, according to Carter.
Amen was recorded over a three-month period earlier this
year in a New York studio.
BLAIR R. FISCHER
(July 7, 1999)