One Love (New Edition album)

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New Edition
New Edition cover
Studio album by New Edition
Released November 9, 2004
Recorded 2002-2004
Genre R&B
Length 62:02
Label Bad Boy
Producer(s) Stevie J., Mario Winans, Diddy, Ron Feemster, Andre Harris, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Professional reviews
New Edition chronology
Home Again
(1996)		 One Love
(2004)


One Love is an album released by R&B quintet New Edition on the Bad Boy label in 2004. It was the group's first album as a quintet since 1988's Heart Break, and the first album since Brown's second departure from the group following their tour seven years before. It was also the first album the group recorded without their longtime label MCA.

Contents

[edit] Overview

[edit] The making of the album

By 2002, New Edition were performing as the quintet of Ralph Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Ronnie DeVoe, Michael Bivins and Johnny Gill, but they hadn't recorded a new studio album since 1996's Home Again. After having successfully fought to get out of their long term contract with MCA Records (in which they eventually won back all their masters from the albums they recorded for that label), the re-energized group signed with Bad Boy Records the same year. It, however, took nearly two years for the album to be released, as the group struggled with Sean Combs, Bad Boy CEO, over creative control. The album, titled One Love, was finally released in November 2004.

[edit] Release and reaction

Early buzz and hype over the new album led to One Love debuting at number twelve on the Billboard Top 200 and number five on the Billboard R&B album chart. The group, however, wasn't pleased when "Hot 2Nite" (which they felt didn't cater to their maturing audience) was chosen to be the albums first single without their consent. The song peaked at an underwhelming number thirty five on Billboard's R&B singles chart, and a dismal number eighty-seven on the Hot 100 singles chart. The underwhelming public reception of the album and its first single led to there being no more released, while label promotion for the album as a whole was stifled. Angered over Bad Boy's neglect, the group asked to be let go of their contract, which finally culminated in November 2005. Despite the One Love's failure to live up to commercial expectation, it was certified gold.

[edit] Tracklisting

  1. "Conference Call" (Bell/DeVoe/Feemster/Gill/Payne/Tresvant) (1:40)
  2. "Been So Long" (Jones/Jordan/Love/Tresvant) (4:23)
  3. "Hot 2Nite" (Leslie) (3:23)
  4. "Sexy Lady" (Jones/Jordan/Knight/Shropshire) (4:27)
  5. "Last Time" (Estiverne/Knight/Larkin) (2:46)
  6. "All on You" (Bell/DeVoe/Feemster/Griffen/Jones/Lawrence/Tresvant) (3:32)
  7. "Wildest Dreams" (Jones/Knight/Shropshire/Stewart/Tresvant) (4:13)
  8. "Start Turnin' Me On" (Davis/Gill/Harris/Toby/Tresvant) (3:38)
  9. "Love Again" (DeVoe/Frierson/Shropshire/Tresvant) (4:17)
  10. "One Love Interlude" (DeVoe/Ellis/Feemster) (2:00)
  11. "That's Why I Lied" (Colapietro/Dinkins/Jordan) (3:55)
  12. "Come Home With Me" (Gill/Harris/Lewis) (4:07)
  13. "Best Man" (Dixson/Winans) (3:56)
  14. "Re-Write the Memories" (Harris/Lewis/Tolbert) (4:31)
  15. "Newness" (DeVoe/Harris/Lewis/Tolbert/Tresvant) (5:27)
  16. "Feelin' It" (Frierson/Jordan/Knight/Leslie) (3:52)
  17. "Leave Me" (Dixson/Winans) (4:05)

[edit] Credits

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