Love Life (Tamia album)
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| Studio album by Tamia | ||||
| Released | June 9, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2013–2015 | |||
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| Length | 43:57 | |||
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| Metacritic | 79/100 |
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| New York Times | (positive) |
Love Life is the sixth studio album by Canadian recording artist Tamia, released on June 9, 2015 by Def Jam Recordings. It marked her first major label release since More (2004).
In 2004, Elektra Records released Tamia's third studio album, More. Her highest-charting release yet, it debuted at number seventeen on the US Billboard 200 and at number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling 58,000 copies in its first week. More was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spawned the top forty single "Officially Missing You". The following year, Tamia split from Elektra and founded her own record label, Plus One Music Group, in order to gain more creative control over future projects. The first record to be released with the company was her fourth studio album Between Friends (2006). Her second album with the rooster, Beautiful Surprise, was released in 2012 after a nearly six-year absence in which she had devoted herself to the education of her two children with retired basketball player Grant Hill. It debuted at number six on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and also garnered two Grammy Award nominations for Best R&B Album and Best R&B Song.
In August 2014, Tamia signed with Def Jam Recordings, marking her return to the major label ranks. Commenting on her transition, Tamia elaborated: “To me [labels], you kind of have to use them like a rich uncle. But they've been really awesome and have let me just do my thing." Musically, she remarked that her new album was "about loving life and about love lives. There are a lot of songs that are love songs, but it's just a happy album. It's not as deep and dark as some of my past albums; it's in a better place.”
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