Raven-Symone album due Sept. 21st

[DollaBill]

Raven-Symone's new album, titled "This Is My Time" is expected to hit stores on September 21st. Song's included on the album are Backflip, Bump, What Is Love, What's Real, Overloved and This Is My Time. Visit Team-Raven

[Hollow]

fantastic

[DollaBill]

I agree, she seems more serious about this music than ever before. I hope it's her comin out(not like Brit or Chris).

Funny ass signature too

[Dean Winchester]

why do actors insist on singing? I can't name 3 actors-turned-singers whose music careers lasted past the "wow, look whose singing this song... it's that guy/girl from ______". I feel the same way for the most part about singers trying to act.

Yes, J. Lo did have a successful music career, but at the same time, it also cost her an incredible amount of credibility, people stopped taking her seriously as an actress because she was singing songs like Jenny From The Block.

This is like the late 70's or mid-late 80's all over again. With all these young tv stars deciding "I wanna be a singer too!!!" to cash in on their moment of phase. it's no different than the late 70's when John Travolta, Cheryl Ladd, Lynda Carter and David Soul (and a lot of other ABC stars) decided they wanted to sing, and in the mid-late 80's when Don Johnson, Jack Wagner and Bruce Willis all decided to unleash their inner-rock star on us.

Why would Raven wanna go into music when seeing the laughs and indifference both Phylicia Rashad and Tempestt Bledsoe got when they went into singing?

[BowWowsBreezy]

raven cannot sing, yet she had the odasity to completely kill stevie wonders superstition at the motown 45 concert special

no offense to any of her fans

[DollaBill]

Hello, it's called the entertainment buisness!

Actors sing, singers act, it's all about doing what you love. I can't agree that she's bad at it, because it's all about your ears and opinion on what sounds good. If they label themselves as 'entertainers', then I agree they should grasp every are of that genre. She's done 2 albums already(who cares if they aren't platinum), people who come up with the crap that actors can't become singers

Her music isn't horrible, niether is her singing. A little history on the music she's been involved with these past 2 years:

1. The Cheetah Girls Special Edition Soundtrack
Released June 22, 2004

Highest Chart Position: #3 on Top Kid Audio Chart, #9 on Top Soundtracks Chart

2. That's So Raven
Released May 18, 2004

Highest Chart Position: #1 on Top Kid Audio Chart, #2 on Top Soundtracks Chart, #44 on Billboard 200

3. The Cheetah Girls
Released August 12, 2003

Highest Chart Position: #1 on Top Soundtracks Chart, #1 on Top Kid Audio Chart, #33 on The Billboard 200

Certified Platinum and approaching sales of 2 million copies in 2004, The Cheetah Girls is the highest-selling Disney Channel album to date.

Disney albums are known to stay on the charts for months...plus are you saying Raven couldn't succeed at making a hit record, when Hilary Duff has a multi-platinum selling album! Like I said, this is a different time in music history. Doin lame music in the past hasn't taken her down yet, she seems to be as popular as when people first saw her.

raven cannot sing, yet she had the odasity to completely kill stevie wonders superstition at the motown 45 concert special

I haven't heard any complaints about how she sounded yet, I say she sounded great to say she was dancing too. Considering people who always lip sing.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by DollaBill
Hello, it's called the entertainment buisness!

Actors sing, singers act, it's all about doing what you love.

yea, but once again, when actors go into music, it's usually just seen as a cute gimmick during the peak of their careers, and it usually never lasts. Bruce Willis is still a pretty big movie star, but yet he hasn't done a record in 15 years. Hell, John Travolta's still around and he hasn't done any music since Grease (he recorded a few albums before that movie during his days on Kotter). The problem with actors-turned-singers is that the albums are usually just vanity projects, nothing that really stays in peoples minds down the road.

I've yet to encounter an actor-turned-singer who takes the music thing seriously, as something they wish to make a long-lasting career out of.

[BowWowsBreezy]

Originally posted by DollaBill
Hello, it's called the entertainment buisness!

Actors sing, singers act, it's all about doing what you love. I can't agree that she's bad at it, because it's all about your ears and opinion on what sounds good. If they label themselves as 'entertainers', then I agree they should grasp every are of that genre. She's done 2 albums already(who cares if they aren't platinum), people who come up with the crap that actors can't become singers

Her music isn't horrible, niether is her singing. A little history on the music she's been involved with these past 2 years:

1. The Cheetah Girls Special Edition Soundtrack
Released June 22, 2004

Highest Chart Position: #3 on Top Kid Audio Chart, #9 on Top Soundtracks Chart

2. That's So Raven
Released May 18, 2004

Highest Chart Position: #1 on Top Kid Audio Chart, #2 on Top Soundtracks Chart, #44 on Billboard 200

3. The Cheetah Girls
Released August 12, 2003

Highest Chart Position: #1 on Top Soundtracks Chart, #1 on Top Kid Audio Chart, #33 on The Billboard 200

Certified Platinum and approaching sales of 2 million copies in 2004, The Cheetah Girls is the highest-selling Disney Channel album to date.

Disney albums are known to stay on the charts for months...plus are you saying Raven couldn't succeed at making a hit record, when Hilary Duff has a multi-platinum selling album! Like I said, this is a different time in music history. Doin lame music in the past hasn't taken her down yet, she seems to be as popular as when people first saw her.


I haven't heard any complaints about how she sounded yet, I say she sounded great to say she was dancing too. Considering people who always lip sing.

well first of all, she ain't that popular...the kids charts don't mean much (and 2 million copies ain't that great nowadays) and i won't even begin w/ this...second of all, yes she did suck at the motown 45 concert and everyone i know who saw it would say that sucked is an understatement for that performance, i don't care if raven chooses to cut a record cuz thats her buisness just as long as she leaves the greats alone and doesnt get upset when her album doesnt make the important charts!!!!!!!

[BowWowsBreezy]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
yea, but once again, when actors go into music, it's usually just seen as a cute gimmick during the peak of their careers, and it usually never lasts. Bruce Willis is still a pretty big movie star, but yet he hasn't done a record in 15 years. Hell, John Travolta's still around and he hasn't done any music since Grease (he recorded a few albums before that movie during his days on Kotter). The problem with actors-turned-singers is that the albums are usually just vanity projects, nothing that really stays in peoples minds down the road.

I've yet to encounter an actor-turned-singer who takes the music thing seriously, as something they wish to make a long-lasting career out of.

i couldn't agree more

[david&maddie4ever]

Originally posted by DollaBill
Actors sing, singers act, it's all about doing what you love. If they label themselves as 'entertainers', then I agree they should grasp every are of that genre.

I really disagree with that. Acting and singing are two completely different things. That's like saying everyone who plays professional baseball should play professional football, too. It just doesn't work that way.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by david&maddie4ever
I really disagree with that. Acting and singing are two completely different things. That's like saying everyone who plays professional baseball should play professional football, too. It just doesn't work that way.

exactly.

Just because you're a decent actress doesn't mean you belong in a recording studio (Jennifer Lopez)

Just because you're a decent singer doesn't mean you belong in front of the cameras (Madonna, Mariah Carey)

[DollaBill]

Originally posted by rvsockz74
well first of all, she ain't that popular...the kids charts don't mean much (and 2 million copies ain't that great nowadays) and i won't even begin w/ this...second of all, yes she did suck at the motown 45 concert and everyone i know who saw it would say that sucked is an understatement for that performance, i don't care if raven chooses to cut a record cuz thats her buisness just as long as she leaves the greats alone and doesnt get upset when her album doesnt make the important charts!!!!!!!

She isn't that popular? So you agree she IS popular, whether you believe it's alot or not. The kids charts don't mean much? Kids charts mean a hell of alot, considering the actors, actresses and singers they support are damn near making more money than A-list actors and singers. 2 million copies aren't that much? Here's something I can laugh at, how many soundtracks with just 8 songs from a cheesy movie can you name that sold 2 million copies??

I'm sure everybody you know didn't see this performance, and I bet it's likely most of the people you know can't stand Raven, so that's an ending to that discussion. All of her albums have made the important charts, frankly she doesn't care because she has other things going for her. She's young, beautiful, educated and talented.

I really disagree with that. Acting and singing are two completely different things. That's like saying everyone who plays professional baseball should play professional football, too. It just doesn't work that way.

Your opinion is your opinion, but nobody gets to decide what anybody else SHOULD do. I never said anybody should, there was a difference in how I stated my opinion, it's their right. I don't see why a professional baseball player couldn't become a professional football player, it's still a sport!

I really didn't announce this to hear people say "she shouldn't be singing", it was just an announcment. I think if you didn't like her, you shouldn't have responded.

[BowWowsBreezy]

Originally posted by DollaBill
She isn't that popular? So you agree she IS popular, whether you believe it's alot or not. The kids charts don't mean much? Kids charts mean a hell of alot, considering the actors, actresses and singers they support are damn near making more money than A-list actors and singers. 2 million copies aren't that much? Here's something I can laugh at, how many soundtracks with just 8 songs from a cheesy movie can you name that sold 2 million copies??

I'm sure everybody you know didn't see this performance, and I bet it's likely most of the people you know can't stand Raven, so that's an ending to that discussion. All of her albums have made the important charts, frankly she doesn't care because she has other things going for her. She's young, beautiful, educated and talented.


Your opinion is your opinion, but nobody gets to decide what anybody else SHOULD do. I never said anybody should, there was a difference in how I stated my opinion, it's their right. I don't see why a professional baseball player couldn't become a professional football player, it's still a sport!

I really didn't announce this to hear people say "she shouldn't be singing", it was just an announcment. I think if you didn't like her, you shouldn't have responded.

lma ok you give me a holla when she makes the billboards lmao (like that'll happen) and i doubt shes makin more than a-list actors maybe b-listers (like herself lol)...but no use arguin cuz u have an opinion and i have an opinion and u aint gonna change it and neither am i so like i said give me a holla when she makes the billboards

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by rvsockz74
(and 2 million copies ain't that great nowadays)

actually, the way record sales have gone downhill, 2 million is very impressive. Only 3 or 4 albums (Usher, Norah and one or two other titles) have made it past the 2 million mark this year in terms of scans. The days of 1999-2000 are long gone.

[BowWowsBreezy]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
actually, the way record sales have gone downhill, 2 million is very impressive. Only 3 or 4 albums (Usher, Norah and one or two other titles) have made it past the 2 million mark this year in terms of scans. The days of 1999-2000 are long gone.

lol...i guess i shouldnt be comparing 2 million with the record sales of artists such as tlc, usher, alicia keys, every good motown artist, and others lol