Melanie Fiona debuts 'Wrong Side of A Love Song'

Just hours before the Grammys are announced, Roc Nation-managed artist Melanie Fiona just dropped the official music video on Jay-Z's Life+Tmes website for her Grammy-nominated Motown-inspired tune, "Wrong Side of a Love Song," taken from the 29-year-old Canadian songbird's latest sophomore album, "The MF Life," which expanding on the classicist R&B influences of her debut, and also incorporates elements of soul and rock music.
Up for "Best Traditional R&B Performance" at the 2013 Grammy Awards, Fiona called this backwards love ballad, "thinking about how did I get here," in which she sings of heartache. Fiona wrote the songs when she was in the middle of a happy relationship, which later ended. She explained: "I actually wrote all the songs that I ended up living, before I lived them, which is really crazy. I found myself with all the records that I wrote in succession and they actually told the story of what happened in that relationship. I was in the relationship and at the time; I didn't foresee it ending."
Since it's one of her fave tracks off her "The MF Life" album, she claims, it's no surprise Fiona took her time with making emotional roller coaster visuals to fit the song. When your relationship goes through a rough patch, do you ever find yourself saying, "wait a minute... how did we get here?" Fiona shows the ups and downs of love in the Larenz Tate-directed video for the single "Wrong Side Of A Love Song." Lucky Fiona drafted the handsome Omari Hardwick as her love interest; their portrayal of each side of the "love song" is raw, realistic, and it's very, very truthful.
The heart-wrenching song is brought to life through the dramatic clip, visualizing the incredible highs and devastating lows of a relationship gone wrong. In the powerful narrative, an emotional Fiona cries, laughs, fights, and flirts with her hunky co-star Hardwick while showcasing her acting chops, amazing skills vocally and on the songwriting end of things as she pours out her heart out over the guitar riffs, showcasing her powerful pipes to the camera and belting out the soulful ballad. Check out how high emotions ran in this true-to-life video.

Melanie Fiona debut "This Time" ft. J. Cole

Soulful songstress Melanie Fiona serves up another helping of her sophomore studio album, "The MF Life" with the video for her latest radio banger, "This Time," featuring your favorite sideline story. The 28-year-old Canadian R&B/Soul singer opens her second studio album, "The MF Life," with this optimistic track, in which she leaves her anger at her heart being broken behind and embraces positivity instead.
In a press release, Fiona explained the album's title, "the 'MF' in the album title represents my initials, but it also gets at the many facets of myself as an artist and a young woman. It can be viewed as the 'Mighty Fine Life' in times of triumph and success, but also the 'Mother-F-ing Life' when I'm dealing with frustration or misfortune. I celebrate both. I feel it would be dishonest if everything was all about glitz and glamour. It's about the balance of life, the yin and the yang, the good and the bad, all of that." Its music expands on the classicist R&B influences of Fiona's 2009 debut album "The Brdige," and its songs deal with themes of aggrievement, longing, and romantic triumph.
The song features Fiona's Roc Nation label mate J. Cole. After the pair both worked on "Beautiful Bliss," a track on Wale's debut album "Attention Deficit," the pair became friends and talked about doing a song together. "I wanted some male energy on this record," Fiona said. "I reached out to Cole and we had already done a song with Wale ['Beautiful Bliss'] and we all just really had great chemistry on the record. I was a fan of J. Cole. We met at the very, very beginning of his career, so we've kind of come up together."
Fiona and rapper also team up and come together for a brand new visual for a sexy and romantic duet of sorts with their new hit collabo "This Time." Directed by Colin Tilley, and shot in Los Angeles, the brand new video really gives fans a visual to the heart-felt and sensual lyrics of this track. Check out the two whose sound is undeniable together. Fiona explained, "I wanted this video to be really beautiful with really good elements of photography, and great angles I wanted people to get a vibe for me. Now they have it thanks to director Colin Tilley."

Melanie Fiona Empowers In "Watch Me Work"

Melanie Fiona drops off a surprise in the form of a unusual and pretty outrageous visual for her latest track "Watch Me Work." The cut is a funky midtempo taken from Fiona' sophomore effort, "The MF Life," a soulful, very mature project that really establishes Fiona as one of the leading voices in soul music, and the video is even funkier.
The 28-year-old Canadian artist's "The MF Life" is fantastic and deserves to cross over much more than it has, and the uptempo "Watch Me Work" is styled in soul and downright exuberant. The song delivers a message that inspires women to celebrate who they are and the clip ends with Fiona's signature line "Live Your MF Life." That album is not getting nearly enough press as it should, which might explain why the "Watch Me Work" video is a well-baited Internet hook.
Captivating with stunning visuals of movie and television clips that depict women being badasses, the R&B songstress tries to convey women empowerment message to her female fan base with the sassy new single, and showcases some of Hollywood's most notorious heroines and brings new meaning to the term kickass female. It's fast-paced, eye-catching and a fantastic bit of curation, while the singer sings the song to the camera, clippings of movie clips featuring female stars kicking ass are flashed on the screen.
Uma Thurman' "Kill Bill" and Angelina Jolie' "Wanted" are among the movie characters honored by Fiona as icons who inspired her generation. There's also more explicitly political stuff–toward the middle comes a quote from The Black Power Mixtape, and the video leads with this Margaret Cho quote: "If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world."

Melanie Fiona Has 'Gone And Never Coming Back'

Canadian R&B songstress Melanie Fiona returns in 2011 with her new video on Tuesday's episode of 106 & Park for "Gone And Never Coming Back," the first single from Fiona's sophomore album "The MF Life," the follow-up to her 2009 debut "The Bridge," and tentatively scheduled for a July release. "From the sophomore album definitely expect growth," She said. "I want people to now recognize me more as an artist. Vocally I've really pushed myself a lot further and all the songs are really big full body songs."
Early reaction to "Gone and Never Coming Back" has been stellar. Written by Andrea Martin and produced by Jay Fenix, the deeply emotional ballad finds the songstress crooning over a love that was meant to be forgotten, and Billboard calls it "a catchy tune about heartbreak and despair." This record sounds like it could be a winner. It seems that when Fiona described her new album as "stadium Soul" she was referring to a mix of live instruments, powerful vocals and grand compositions. The 27-year-old displays gritty emotion and passion on such a powerful song. The video itself was well crafted and thoroughly connected to the lyrics.
Fiona makes her powerful new song cry, the Grammy-nominated songstress sings away her pain with her soulful vocals in the video for "Gone and Never Coming Back," which shows an emotional Fiona getting her frustrations out. Light bulbs explode, wine glasses shatter, and fire erupts as the Canadian songbird shares her emotional tale of love lost in the Colin Tilley-directed clip. Going for a "Stadium Soul" sound this go around, Fiona's powerful voices drives the show with a nice array of piano chords keeping time in the background. Clearly the visuals were meant to further this emotional feeling that the song is trying to get across.
Looking back on 2010 it's clear that in many ways this was the year of the woman. From Nicki Minaj's raps to Alicia Keys' Empire State hook and much more, strong women like Melanie Fiona took their rightful place at music's front lines. Fiona continues to cement her role as a pillar of new school r&b/soul on new turn "Gone and Never Coming Back." While whoever maestro composed this soaring, piano driven ballad deserves credit – it's the perfect sonic backdrop for Fiona to showcase her gripping, emotional and undeniably powerful voice.