The Matrix (album)

The Matrix
Studio album by The Matrix
Released January 27, 2009 (iTunes)
Recorded 2004
Genre Pop rock, Rock, Alternative rock, Dance pop
Label Let's Hear It Records
Producer

The Matrix
Katy Perry chronology
One of the Boys
(2008)		 The Matrix (2009) MTV Unplugged
(2009)

The Matrix is the self-titled debut album by the production group The Matrix, released on iTunes on January 27, 2009[1] as well as on audio CD. The album featured music written and produced by the group with vocals by Katy Perry and British singer Adam Longlands.

Album information

The album was recorded in 2004, when Katy Perry was 20 years old.[2] In the October 2004 issue of Blender Magazine, they named Perry "The Next Big Thing!"[3] The Matrix worked with the vocalist who contributed to the writing of the music and the lyrics for the songs. Despite the buzz about the album, The Matrix decided to cancel the album weeks before the album's due date. "Broken" was set to be its first single.[4] In 2009, after the success of Perry's debut solo album One of the Boys, The Matrix decided to release the album under their own record label, Let's Hear It Records.

With lyrical differences, the song had previously been recorded in 2003, under the title "What Do You Do?", by Matrix produced sister act, The Troys. It was released in 2003 on Elektra as a promo single for an album that was eventually shelved, but was also included in the compilation album, The Powerpuff Girls: Power Pop. Sara Paxton recorded "Take a Walk" in 2005 for the Darcy's Wild Life soundtrack. In 2006, "Live Again Before I Die", appeared on a Bonus track version of Ashley Parker Angel's debut Album Soundtrack to Your Life. Ashley re-wrote the majority of the song. In 2007, a song from Skye Sweetnam's Sound Soldier album, titled "Boyhunter", which was produced by The Matrix surfaced. The song uses a slightly altered version of the music from the track "Damn". Ashley Tisdale re-recorded "Love Is Train" for her second album, Guilty Pleasure, which was released as "Time's Up", a bonus track of the album.

Track listing

  1. "You Miss Me?" (feat. Katy Perry and Adam Longlands)
  2. "Broken" (feat. Katy Perry and Adam Longlands)
  3. "Damn" (feat. Katy Perry)
  4. "Take a Walk" (feat. Adam Longlands and Katy Perry)
  5. "Just a Song" (feat. Katy Perry)
  6. "I Love You" (feat. Adam Longlands)
  7. "Live Before I Die" (feat. Adam Longlands)
  8. "Would You Care?" (feat. Katy Perry)
  9. "Seen That Done That" (feat. Adam Longlands and Katy Perry)
  10. "Stay With Me" (feat. Adam Longlands and Katy Perry)
Other recorded tracks[5]

References

  1. ^ http://www.letshearitrecords.com/ Let's Hear it Records
  2. ^ Kaufman, Gil (2009-01-27). "The Matrix Drop Long-Lost Album Featuring Katy Perry". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1603622/20090127/katy_perry.jhtml. Retrieved 2009-02-15. 
  3. ^ http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1061 Blender: The Next Big Thing! Katy Perry
  4. ^ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1603622/20090127/katy_perry.jhtml
  5. ^ http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=THE%20MATRIX&search_in=a&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=20&start=1 ASCAP
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