Digital Distortion is the upcoming sophomore album by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea. Originally scheduled for a mid-2016 release, Azalea pushed the released back to 2017 following her breakup with her fiancé to work on new material and the album will now be released in June 2017. The lead single from the album, Team, was released in March 2016 and two music videos soon followed. On March 18, 2017, she released her second official single, Mo Bounce. Her final single before the album's release, Switch featuring Anitta, was then released on May 19, 2017.
Background
Iggy Azalea is currently working on a second album in the studio as of early 2015. She originally planned on doing a world tour titled "The Great Escape Tour" to promote Reclassified, but cancelled plans to make time to create a second album.
On January 9, 2016, Iggy Azalea released the long awaited "Zillion" buzz track as "Azillion" on her SoundCloud page and captioned it "4 MY RATZ". On March 18, 2016, Azalea announced the beginning of the 24-hour countdown to the release of her lead single, Team.
On March 19, 2016, Team was released worldwide and impacted radio.
On May 2, 2016, Iggy Azalea and Zedd were rumored to be working together on a new song[2]. However, after a song was released between Ke$ha and Zedd, rumors have died down. But, some fans still believe a collab could happen.
On March 15, 2017, two tracks from Iggy's album, titled "Haze" and "Somebody Else" were leaked on the internet, but on May 3, 2017, Iggy confirmed that they were scrapped. [3]
On March 18, 2017, almost a year after Team, Iggy tweeted "You guys did good putting the pieces together! My new single #MoBounce comes out next Friday! 3/24. Get ready.".[4]
On March 23 2017, Mo Bounce was released worldwide.
On April 7, 2017, during a recent interview with an Australian radio station, Iggy Azalea confirmed that her new album "Digital Distortion" would be released on the first week of June and that she planned to promote the second single, Mo Bounce, with several performances in the following weeks.
On May 2, 2017, Iggy confirmed that previous song "Middle Man" had been replaced with Elephant.[5]
On May 2, 2017, Iggy confirmed that both I Got That (Boom Boom) is featuring Zedd, and both the song and Elephant are on the final cut of the album.[6]
Iggy then confirmed that the album would have 14 tracks.[7]
Iggy teased lyrics to "Calm Down", tweeting "theres a blue bird, on my shoulder... shall i kill it? ayyyyyeeee stomp that little birdy." [8]Singles
The lead single, "Team", was released on March 18, 2016. The second single, "Mo Bounce", was released a year later, on March 23, 2017. The third single, "Switch" featuring Anitta, was released on May 19, 2017, and was the most successful single from the album.
Promotional singles
The first promotional single, and buzz track, "Azillion", was released on January 9, 2016. There were originally plans for a music video to be associated with the video, but her label, Virgin EMI Records, blocked her ability to release anything. The second promotional single, "Can't Lose" featuring Lil Uzi Vert, was released on March 3, 2017.
Interviews
| “ | I didn’t make a collaboration-heavy album this time around. The only collaboration on the album is with rapper YG, who I worked with on my first mixtape. And maybe one or two other rappers on some remixes. | „ |
| ~ Iggy with Las Vegas Weekly |
| “ | I’ve got another single coming out with French Montana, we recorded it while I was in Las Vegas last week. | „ |
| ~ Iggy with E! News |
Songs
These tracks are not in order. All confirmed songs will be listed here in any order.
Released tracks
- Team
- Mo Bounce
- Can't Lose (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)
- Switch (feat. Anitta)
- Boom Boom (feat. Zedd)
- Elephant (feat. YG)
- 7-Teen
- Middle Man
- Calm Down
Confirmed tracks
- Higher
- Savior (featuring unknown artist)
- Hate On It[9]
- Love Don't Fail Me (feat. Jeremih)
- Sexy (feat. French Montana)[10]
- Shade
Scrapped tracks
- Three Day Weekend (merged with Higher)
- Iggy Alert (merged with Middle Man)
- Haze[11] [12]
- Somebody Else[13] [14]
Trivia
- Elephant is Iggy's favorite song off the album, like "Work" was for her previous album. [15] "It's about addressing what you feel is the elephant in the room." [16]
- Elephant took Iggy the longest to write.
Promotional
Videos
Notes
- The entire album will be produced by D.R.U.G.S.[17]
- The album will feature at least one song with another artist singing the chorus.
- YG will be featured on the song "Elephant".
References
- ↑ 14 Tracks
- ↑ Idolator: Zedd and Iggy?
- ↑ Iggy's tweet confirming the scrapping of 2 tracks
- ↑ Iggy's tweet
- ↑ Middle Man
- ↑ Boom Boom featuring Zedd made it to final cut
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Calm Down Lyrics
- ↑ "It's called Hate On It"
- ↑ Iggy Azalea & French Montana Duet On "Sexy" | December 3, 2016
- ↑ Iggy Azalea's new song, Haze
- ↑ Haze and Somebody Else were scrapped
- ↑ 5
- ↑ 6
- ↑ Iggy: "work is great and off this album i really like elephant."
- ↑ "It's about addressing what you feel is the elephant in the room."
- ↑ Iggy Azalea collaborating with D.R.U.G.S again