Jasmine (song)

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"Jasmine"
Single by Jai Paul
from the album Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
Released30 March 2012 (SoundCloud)
Genre
Length4:13
Label XL
Songwriter(s) Jai Paul [1]
Jai Paul singles chronology
"BTSTU"
(2010)		"Jasmine"
(2012)		"Do You Love Her Now" / "He"
(2019)

"Jasmine" (sometimes referred to as "Jasmine (Demo)") is a song by Jai Paul, first released in 2012 as a digital download. [2]

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Release

"Jasmine" was first released on SoundCloud on 30 March 2012. [3] It was later re-released on Paul's debut album Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) (2019), [4] an unofficial version of which was leaked in 2013. [5] Paul also released a version of the track on Bandcamp in 2013. [6]

As of January 2020, a special edition vinyl release of "Jasmine" was expected. [7] Jai Paul announced that the record—which was to be scented with jasmine—would contain a remix of the single. [7] A website launched with Jai Paul's 2019 single "He"/"Do You Love Her Now" also allowed users to stream a version of "Jasmine". [8]

Reception

Fitzmaurice, naming "Jasmine" a best new track in a review for Pitchfork, described it as "echo-pop" and compared it to Daft Punk's 2003 single "Something About Us". [9] Cragg noted similarities with the work of D'Angelo and Prince. [10] Caramanica, who also compared "Jasmine" to Prince's work, described the song as a "whispery caress". [11] Morpurgo, observing that the single's synthesizer loop resembles the work of Chromatics, classified "Jasmine" as R&B, [12] as did Singh; [13] while Rindner compares it to Off the Wall –era Michael Jackson. [14] Bassil describes the song's "obscured" mixing as a hallmark of Jai Paul's style. [15]

Covers

Ed Sheeran and Octavian have released cover versions of "Jasmine". [15] And on 7 November 2023, Arlo Parks released a cover of the song as the lead single for the deluxe edition of her album My Soft Machine . [16]

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