Darwin diva Jessica Mauboy has moved up the Australian music charts.
Go Get Em: Jessica Mauboy says she is pleased with the response to her new album.
Her single, Saturday Night, featuring Ludacris, has climbed from 10th to seventh on the charts.
This is the video and it's sure way better than the previous video 'Get Em Girls'. Yes, the rapper has been removed from this version of the song - and it's 100% pure Jess. The clip is another one directed by Hype Williams.
Sassy New Sound for Jessica Mauboy
Former Australian Idol winner Jessica Mauboy is back with a new album and a sassier sound.
Mauboy is the first to admit that her first album, the double platinum Been Waiting, was a 'safe' choice musically.
Her second album, which was released in New Zealand in November, Get 'Em Girls, ramps up her sound and features a who's who of US music producers, as well as collaborations with Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Jay Sean.
To make the album Mauboy left Australia and went to the United States to find her sound.
"I travelled over to the States on my own and it was nice to become independent and become in control of the album," Mauboy says.
"It was really interesting to see how I would work around unfamiliar people, it was nice to get my grounding.
"I really found I became so much stronger and that stepped up the album musically and lyrically.
The first single released off the new album features rapper Snoop Dogg, who also appears in the video.
"It was quite nerve-wracking at first. Going overseas and being in a different environment and a different culture was hard enough but to be there with Snoop Dogg who I look up to was amazing.
"We thought he'd come in and demand so many things but he totally wasn't like that at all.
"It was nice to sit back and watch him do his thing!"
Mauboy says the response to the album so far has been "incredible".
"I just wanted the reaction to be 'What the? She's saying all these things... and what?'
"People really recognise my music now," she says.
"I'm really happy that people are getting that urban R 'n' B style."
A recent performance on the Australian television talent show The X Factor saw Mauboy come full circle - four years after she won Australian Idol.
"It was really nice to be back on stage. I did Idol in 06 so it was nice to go back and be like 'I'm growing' and to go back on air and show everyone what I've been up to."
Mauboy plans to tour Australia and New Zealand in 2011 to show her fans what she has been up to too.
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