Joyride (album)

## Joyride

### Producer(s)

Trevor Jerideau (alb.), Mike Nazzaro (alb. and exec.), Ali Nazzaro (alb.), Floyd "A1" Bentley Allen Ritter BLWYRMND, Brilliance, Dre Moon, Felix Snow, Hitmaka, Mario Luciano, J. White Did It, Joel Compass, Reckless, Ritz Reynolds, Soundz, Stargate, T-Minus, Wavy

*Joyride* is the third studio album and seventh project by American singer Tinashe, released through RCA Records on April 13, 2018. The album features guest appearances from Offset, Ty Dolla Sign, French Montana, Little Dragon, and Future. The album also features production by Stargate, Dre Moon, Hit-Boy, T-Minus, and others. The album debuted at number 58 on the US *Billboard* 200, selling 9,800 album-equivalent units, of which 4,710 came from pure sales.

## Background

On September 2, 2015, Tinashe released a teaser for *Joyride* on YouTube. On September 9, Tinashe leaked the buzz single "Party Favors" featuring rapper Young Thug as a way to get the ball rolling on her label's part. On October 2, 2015, Tinashe released another song, "Player" featuring Chris Brown, as the first intended lead single of the album. On October 21, 2015, Tinashe was featured on British electronic duo Snakeships' track "All My Friends", which reached the top 20 in five countries. On November 17, Tinashe held a breakfast listening party for *Joyride* at the Sony Club in New York City, which was attended by reporters and various other members of the music industry. At this event, she played at least one song that wound up on the final version of *Joyride*: the album's closing track, "Fires and Flames" Two other songs played that day — "Fearless" and the Max Martin-produced "Prisoner" — have not been released.

After a few months without releasing any new music, Tinashe released a new intended lead single for the project, entitled "Superlove". The song was released on July 15, 2016 and the music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, debuted on August 12, 2016 on MTV's Snapchat to rave reviews. The video on YouTube reached one million views in just a day and a half. On September 15, 2016, with a MTV Wonderland performance, Tinashe released "Company" as the album's intended second single. However, this ended up being the first and only single off her 2016 album Nightride Perhaps conceived of as a holdover until *Joyride* was ready to be released, *Nightride* featured many of the songs that were supposed to be on the original version of *Joyride*, including "Sacrifices", "Soul Glitch", "Ghetto Boy" and "Touch Pass" (which she initially premiered at *Joyride'*s November 2015 listening party and performed on the Joyride World Tour in early 2016). The promo singles "Ride of Your Life" and "Party Favors" (without Young Thug) were also included on Nightride.

## Writing and recording

The writing and recording for the album went through several phases. In late January 2015, Tinashe was reported to be working with writers and producers from Prescription Songs (Cirkut, Ammo, Rock City, Jakob Kasher, Chloe Angelides), Max Martin and Taylor Parks on the album. After months of silence after the release of the album's then-latest lead single "Flame", Tinashe on July 11, 2017, confirmed that she was still working on her new album with producers Mike Will Made It, TM88, Metro Boomin, Diplo, Boi-1da, Charlie Handsome and others. In an April 5, 2018 article in *Vulture*, Tinashe stated: "Once I brought in producers and writers, we were in there every day being creative... We set the vibe, had Taco Tuesday parties. That was a huge turning point for me. Once that summer happened, I regained a huge sense of confidence and purpose: 'Okay, I'm doing this. I really made this happen. I’m gonna make my best music ever.' That's what we did." In this *Vulture* article, Tinashe admitted that "three [different] versions of this album exist" and that there "are probably 200 songs" total that were recorded over the course of a three-year period.

## Critical reception

*Joyride* received generally positive reviews from music critics.

Israel Daramola of *Spin* wrote in a positive review that the album is "a cool and sexy record," and "well-crafted and ambitious." For *Exclaim!. Ryan B. Patrick scored the album a 7 out of 10. Andy Kellman of AllMusic awarded the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, stating "the highlights are filled with rich details and seductive hooks". Hannah Mylrea of NME gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, calling "Joyride brilliantly good fun", and calling the album "mainly worth the two year wait." Ben Devlin of musicOMH gave the album 2.5 out of 5 stars, stating that "the intro and hard-edged title track create a sense of concept," however that "it is discarded for the song 'No Drama'," and that "a sense of cohesion never quite returns to the album." Roisin O'Connor of The Independent awarded the album 3 out of 5 stars, saying "Joyride has its shining points, and attempts to remain true to a cohesive, moodier tone," however that "it's missing the strong, catchier elements that helped Tinashe rise in the first place."*

## *Cut Songs*

*Main article: Unreleased Songs*

1. **All I Ask of You**
2. **Anything Goes (feat. Nic Nac)**
3. **Box On a Shelf (feat. Supervillain)**
4. **Bullet**
5. **Butterfly**
6. **Dos On**
7. **Downtown (Demo)**
8. **Dream in Color (Demo) [feat. Miguel & Njomza]**
9. **Dream in Color (Interlude) [feat. Miguel]**
10. **Eat You Up**
11. **Energy (feat. Juicy J)**
12. **Everything Counts (feat. Supervillain)**
13. **Fearless (Scared of Happy)**
14. **Fearless (Scared of Happy) [V2]**
15. **Fuck My Mind Up (Interlude)**
16. **Fuck My Mind Up**
17. **Fugazi**
18. **Heavy**
19. **Hot Sauce**
20. **Instructions**
21. **Joyride (Demo) [feat. Travis Scott]**
22. **Joyride (V2 Demo) [feat. Travis Scott]**
23. **Just Like You**
24. **L-O-V-E (Japan Bonus Track]**
25. **Learn Me**
26. **Leave It**
27. **Leave Someone (Remix)**
28. **Make Me (Wanna)**
29. **Money**
30. **My Territory**
31. **No Contest (feat. Jeremih)**
32. **No Drama (Solo Version)**
33. **No Drama (Video/Solo Version)**
34. **Pour Your Love On Me**
35. **Prisoner**
36. **Rain**
37. **Run, Run**
38. **Runaway**
39. **Same Old Me**
40. **Stranger**
41. **Stuck With Me (Demo)**
42. **Stylin' (feat. Supervillain)**
43. **The Life (Demo for Fifth Harmony)**
44. **The Same**
45. **Underneath the Lights**
46. **Weekday (Demo for MØ)**
47. **Your Favorite**
48. **By Your Side**

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* "Joyride" samples "Vulnerable" performed by Tinashe featuring Travis Scott.
* "Me So Bad" contains a sample of "Go Wild" performed by Ian Thomas.
* "Ooh La La" contains a sample of "Dilemma" performed by Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland and elements of "Some Cut" performed by Trillville.
* The CDs were released on separate dates
	+ Various CDs were released on April 13, 2018 and June 29, 2018.
	+ The Japan CDs were released April 25, 2018.

* The Japan version of this album incorporates 4 tracks.
	+ The songs are "L-O-V-E", "Superlove", "Player (Remix) (feat. AK-69)", and "Flame".