Dovey Magnum excited about release of ‘No Filter’ EP
Dovey Magnum is pleased with the release of her first EP, No Filter, on Friday.
She said that this body of work has been a long time in coming.
“This is my first major body of work because this is the first time I have been able to get the support. Whenever I asked for help in the past with established producers, I would sing two or three songs and then all of a sudden, they don’t want to work with me again,” Dovey Magnum said.
“So ah just pure one-one song mi have, the amount of unfinished songs weh mi have inna my phone, mi walk with mi career inna mi hand, cause everything inna mi phone.”
Then there was a stroke of good fortune. She said that Ocho Rios-based label 1Royalty Entertainment was impressed by her work ethic and the speed with which she was able to write and record songs, and decided to do an EP with her.
“I took a half hour to voice a song, and they wanted other songs, so I stayed in Ocho Rios and did the album. 1 Royalty Entertainment had seen how my career had been blackballed, they saw the damage, and knew something was going on as to why Dovey Magnum hasn’t reached that next level,” she said.
The No Filter EP is now available on all major download platforms. The seven-song set features songs such as Wakanda, Not Too Late, Wet, 1 Night Stand, Egotistic, Leave and Red Wine and Whisky.
“One of my most personal tracks on the album is ‘Leave’ which comes from a real life situation which chronicles something that I went through personally and it is very touching in terms of the emotions and what I had to go through with a guy. By sharing my experience, I know females can relate because they go through the same thing, the heartbreak, the craziness, everything,” she said.
Dovey’s favourite track on the EP is the sensuous Red Wine and Whisky, which comes off as an ode to a crazy-sexy-cool libation.
“When I heard the riddim for the song the first time, it transported me to a different world, so I knew I had to come out of my genre, my own comfort zone and go for a different feel. In the track I am not singing or talking about a man, this is a love song for red wine and whisky literally, how it makes me feel high and nice,” she said, laughing.