{"id":697,"date":"2004-11-16T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T01:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=697"},"modified":"2005-03-19T00:42:29","modified_gmt":"2005-03-19T05:42:29","slug":"jay_seans_me_ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/16\/jay_seans_me_ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Sean&#8217;s Me Against Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><left> <img src=\" http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/jay sean.jpg\"><\/left>\nThe British Asian Pop sensation Jay Sean has been making waves in the UK in recent months, beginning a few months back with his hit collaboration Dance with You, and now with the release of his top 40 full length album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00069JA6K\/qid=1100666422\/sr=8-3\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl15\/104-7598763-2223104?v=glance&#038;s=music&#038;n=507846\"target=new>Me Against Myself<\/a>, which debuted at 29 this week on the British Charts.  Featuring the top ten charting hit singles, &#8220;Stolen&#8221; and &#8220;Eyes on You,&#8221; Sean is tipped to be the British Asian to actually be the one that finally makes the crossover into the mainstream.  Lets hope so.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2004\/11\/15\/bmpopcd2.xml\"target=new>The Telegraph (UK) <\/a>too has praise for Sean, whose real name is Kamaljit,<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>[for many] the best tracks will be two hidden ones, from his earlier incarnation, including You Don&#8217;t Know Me, about the difficulties of trying to make it as an Asian in the hip-hop arena. The title track sees Sean dissing himself for making music ? presumably the poppy stuff ? that &#8220;you pretend you are into&#8221;. The intro skit has his producer-mentor Rishi Rich telling him, in a posh English accent, to cut out the conscious stuff, that UK hip-hop doesn&#8217;t sell and he should write songs about girls. Clearly highly talented, and currently attracting the attention of demi-god producer Timbaland, it will be fascinating to see how Sean resolves his musical schizophrenia.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/music\/interviews\/story.jsp?story=579544\"target=new>Independent (UK)<\/a> ran an interesting, yet cliched profile of Jay Sean, entitled: &#8220;Betwen Two Cultures&#8221;, about ten days ago. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/music\/interviews\/story.jsp?story=579544\"target=new>here <\/a>to read it.  Regardless I want to offer an SM Big Up to Jay Sean!<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Asian Pop sensation Jay Sean has been making waves in the UK in recent months, beginning a few months back with his hit collaboration Dance with You, and now with the release of his top 40 full length &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/16\/jay_seans_me_ag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}