1998 (Jelly Otter album)

### Producer

Jelly Otter • Addison Holley • Alyssa Reid • Nick Jonas • Jason Quenneville • Nasri Atweh • Mark Pellizzer • Ben Spivak • Jeff Danna • Devan Cohen • Liam McKenna

*1998* is the fourth studio album recorded by Jelly Otter, released on July 11, 2019. She departed from children's music to explore and enjoy a radio-friendly pop scene. She titled *1998* after she got her own show in her debut year to signify an artistic redebut.

Jelly Otter, along with Nick Jonas, Jeff Danna, Devan Cohen and Addison Holley, recorded the former's new songs in Azilda, Chelmsford, Lively, and the South End, Sudbury with a new dazzling array of songwriters, including Zedd, Grey, DaHeala, Nasri, Mark Pellizzer, Ben Spivak and MAGIC!, Tyler Shaw and Alyssa Reid, most of whom Jelly Otter had worked with previously. This is the final studio album to feature Jenell Slack and Cody Pennes as the original voice actresses for both Jelly Otter and Pinch Raccoon.

Five tracks from the album - "Clap Your Hands", "Crystal Blue Water", "Sunshine", "Tropical" and "Clear Blue Sky" were previously released as singles on May 1, May 11, June 1, June 11 and July 1, 2019, respectively. *1998* is released on July 11, 2019 simultaneously with the first of the four deluxe tracks from the album - "Paradise", and the final song, "Luminescent Colours" is the album's final single, released in June 11, 2021.

A re-recorded version of *1998* is released in July 11, 2021, with Jelly Otter's new friend, Liam McKenna, replacing Nick Jonas, since he is not involved in the re-recording.

## Recording and production

On May 11, 2019, at her first RioCan Centre Sudbury concert as part of her Green Tour, skateboarder and best friend Jelly Otter, and her best friend and roller-skater Pinch Raccoon, both moved to the South End, Sudbury.

Jelly and Nick Jonas are enlisted as songwriters. Jelly found out that one of her songs, When I'm In My Shoes, is now on CD. Nick Jonas wrote seven of the crystal sky blue edition's eight tracks. Jelly's favourite singer, Alyssa Reid, is also enlisted. She also recorded vocals in tracks.

Devan Cohen is also her friend. At age 15, he collaborated with Jelly on a new song, for instance, "I'm Out On My Own". Jelly got Cathy Moss and Jeff Danna for "Sunshine", "Tropical" and "Paradise".

On July 1, 2019, Jelly Otter made a short visual that depicted the characters "T-O-I-A-R-P-C-L" emerging from a blue vault. She launched a feature for putting word puzzles back together in order to uncover the album's deluxe track titles. There's an animated drawing of a blue vault. It made one of the 98 puzzles with or without an accompaniment hint. The track titles are set once 98 puzzles had been solved. Four new deluxe track titles are added: her 2nd re-recording of "Is It Over Now?", "The Reef Is A Beautiful Wonder", "Luminescent Colours" and "Tropical".

In the summer of 2021, Jelly Otter is taken her start to re-record her first four studio albums, including *1998*, near her debut deluxe re-record, *New Reflection*. On July 11, 2021, her re-recording of *1998*, in the addition to the subtitle *Revisited*, is the first in the series of her re-recorded albums.

## Songs

Jelly Otter's feelings when she first moved to the South End, Sudbury inspired the opening track "It's So Good To Be Back Home". In addition with "Sunshine", "Paradise" and "Tropical", additional instruments are her acoustic guitar, a solo cuban trumpet, steel pans, marimba, a cabasa, claves, congas, and guiro.

"Crystal Blue Water" and Sunshine are Jelly Otter's favourite summer songs, both written and performed by her and Alyssa Reid, swimming in crystal blue waters in the sun. In her rhythmic tracks "Clap Your Hands" and "Shake It To The Rhythm", for instance, Jelly is placed in a similar predicament in both Crystal Blue Water and Tropical. Clap Your Hands and Shake It To The Rhythm move and groove to the rhythmic congas, cabasa and guiro, in addition to the steel pan, marimba and solo cuban trumpet. "Clear Blue Sky" is tropically ambient and relaxing for her.

"Friends Forever" and "Be Your Best Friend" are duets with Jelly's best friend, Pinch Raccoon, as the penultimate song "See You Next Summer!" is a collaboration with Devan Cohen. The final song's title, "Luminescent Colours", from the 2021 Tanya Cookies and Komodo Mouth TV movie *Coral Seas*, sees Jelly Otter showing all the luminescent colourful sea creatures in the moonlit glowing coral reefs.

## Tour

To promote the album, Jelly Otter embarked on her **1998 World Tour**. The concert begins with illuminated crystal blue water accompanied by soft waves from the illusion crashing against the screen and seagulls flying above. Jelly then emerges from beneath the stage and the crystal blue water to sing "Crystal Blue Water", followed by "Clear Blue Sky". After her performances of "Sing, Dance And Play" and "I'm Out On My Own" with Devan Cohen, Jelly invited her best friend, Pinch Raccoon, to join her.

Pinch and Jelly both performed either "Friends Forever" or "Be Your Best Friend". For the performance of "See You Next Summer!", they invited Devan Cohen to join in, since he collaborated with Jelly on "I'm Out On My Own", closing the crystal blue water act with bright blue visuals. The tropical act begins with the screen showing neon-lit palm trees. Jelly and Pinch then both perform "Sunshine", "Tropical" and "Paradise". For the performances of "It's So Good To Be Back Home" and "The More We Get Together", they and Devan invited Peanut Otter, Gage Munroe and Addison Holley to join in, with bright blue visuals closing the song. In a luminescent illusion, a body of water develops around Jelly and then dives into the stage and appears to swim underwater, along the ramp and toward the main stage.

Dancers carry out luminescent colours for starfish, sea anemones, jellyfish and seahorses as Jelly reemerges in her bioluminescent blue dress to perform both "Luminescent Colours" and "The Reef Is A Beautiful Wonder". Both "Shake It To The Rhythm" and "Clap Your Hands" are the final performances of the show, with Jelly, Pinch, Peanut, Devan, Gage and Addison and the dancers performing on a rhythmic platform, closing the show with blue fireworks and colourful blue visuals.

Jelly used "Seventeen" by Alessia Cara as her entrance song.

### Movie

*Jelly Otter 1998 LIVE* is released on July 11, 2019, alongside the release of the album. Directed by Addison Holley, the movie is recorded at the RioCan Sudbury show on June 11, 2019, where Jelly Otter and her best friend Pinch Raccoon both performed in front of beyond a million fans present in the RioCan Sudbury Centre. It featured over an hour of concert, a little talk by Jelly and Pinch and never-before-seen backstage footage with Alessia Cara, Alyssa Reid, Shawn Mendes, Virginia To Vegas, MAGIC! and Tyler Shaw as some musical and surprise guests from a few later shows.

## Track List

1. Sunshine
2. Clear Blue Sky (with Tyler Shaw)
3. Clap Your Hands
4. Shake It To The Rhythm (with Alyssa Reid)
5. Crystal Blue Water (with MAGIC!)
6. I'm Out On My Own
7. Friends Forever (with Peanut Otter, Pinch Raccoon)
8. Paradise
9. 1998 (with Delaney Jane)

#### Deluxe/Revisited Edition

1. Tropical
2. Be Your Best Friend (with Pinch Raccoon)
3. The Reef Is A Beautiful Wonder (with Ashe) (from *Coral Seas*)
4. See You Next Summer! (with Alyssa Reid, Tyler Shaw)
5. Is It Over Now?
6. It's So Good To Be Back Home (with Zedd, Grey, Pinch Raccoon)
7. Luminescent Colours (from *Coral Seas*)
8. Kissing Other People (Remix) (with Lennon Stella)

## Personnel

* Jelly Otter — vocals, songwriting, guitar (all tracks); ukulele (track 4, deluxe track 3); keyboards (tracks 2, 7, deluxe track 6)
* Pinch Raccoon — vocals (tracks 7, deluxe tracks 2, 7); songwriting, recorder (all tracks); handle castanet (tracks 1, 5, 10, deluxe track 1)
* Scootch Raccoon — recorder, background vocals (track 7, deluxe track 2)
* Peanut Otter — songwriting, vocals (track 7)
* Addison Holley — songwriting, programming (all tracks)
* Baby Butter Otter — xylophone (tracks 3, 7)
* Splash N'Boots – production, songwriting, programming (track 7)
* Devan Cohen — songwriting, programming (all tracks); vocals, guitar (track 8, deluxe tracks 5, 6, 7)
* BoBs and LoLo – production, songwriting, programming (track 8)
* Keegan Jeannotte — songwriting, keyboards, drums, guitar (tracks 1-5, deluxe track 1, deluxe tracks 4-7)
* The Bubble Colour Bath Toys — mastering
* Beach Ball — mastering
* Jeff Danna – mixing
* Tyler Shaw - vocals, songwriting (track 2, deluxe track 4)
* Alyssa Reid - vocals, songwriting (track 4, deluxe track 4)
* Lennon Stella - vocals, songwriting (deluxe track 8)
* Sean Klein - mastering
* Jason Quenneville - songwriting, mastering (tracks 1-5, deluxe track 1, deluxe tracks 4-7)
* Nasri Atweh - songwriting, mastering (all tracks); vocals (track 5)
* Nick Jonas - mastering
* Grey - mixing, all programming, vocals (deluxe tracks 3, 5, 6, 7)
* Zedd - mixing, all programming, songwriting, vocals (deluxe tracks 3, 5, 6, 7)
* Liam McKenna – re-recording production