Jayme Dee's Broken Record Review

After making you fall in love with your favorite songs all over again for six years on YouTube, Jayme Dee has fled the Internet screen and released her first EP album. This snippet of original music, entitled Broken Record, provides this bubbly artist’s already growing fan base with proof that she can step out from behind her guitar and acoustic covers in order to write contagious lyrics of her own.

Broken Record was released on July 30 and the musical variety serves as the polka dot kiss from the hipster artist herself. For nearly a dollar per song, this sneak-peak to her expected album can add to your summer playlist for $6.84 on iTunes.

A summer album, indeed, Jayme Dee’s premiere EP features songs like, “Broken Record”, which sounds eerily like an orange, setting sun or a drippy, orange Creamsicle—it’s hard to tell which. And don’t try denying that the track “Tip Toes” doesn’t sound like the daughter of a soulful Zooey Deschanel and the ever-smooth Justin Timberlake.

Praised for her blues-like voice and vocal range that knows no bounds, Jayme Dee’s YouTube channel has over 19 billion views. Making viewers forget that blues has been out of the lime light for a number of decades was easy for her in covers such as, Britney Spears', “Toxic” and Foster the People’s, “Pumped Up Kicks”.

There is no avoiding that the six upbeat songs that comprise this EP album stray from the stripped down music Jayme Dee first dropped our jaws with. Despite having to face some harsh criticism from fans who prefer Jayme to be flirting with listeners equipped only with a song and guitar strings, she stands firm in her new, jazzy artistry. “It’s been a long journey,” Jayme Dee tweeted after the release, “…we had so much fun making these records in the studio.”

Be it from our computer or from our radio, this bubblegum blonde from southern California has a common look and a not-so-common sound. For music patrons, Jayme Dee is different. And not fitting the mold is more than enough reason for audiences to hit ‘play’ on any medium.

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Also, here is one of the most viewed videos on Jayme Dee's channels...
just because.