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Another Earthquake! (2002)

Where the lyrics of Another Earthquake! take you, and where it was really made.

Aaron Carter's fourth album was his last one on Jive Records, and it debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200.

Key places

Recorded at Battery Studios, New York (2002)

Recording site Record Plant Studios — Discogs lists Battery Studios in New York among the recording studios for this release. The map point sits at the city centre, not at the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recorded at Subsonic Studios, Brooklyn (2002)

Recording site Rough Customer — Discogs lists Subsonic Studios in Brooklyn, NY as a recording studio for this release. The map point sits at the city centre of Brooklyn, not at the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Another Earthquake!: fourth studio album by American teen pop singer Aaron Carter
• Released 3 September 2002 on Jive Records
• Continues the early-2000s teen pop sound, mixing dance-pop, hip hop influences, and pop ballads aimed at a young audience
• Singles: Another Earthquake!, Summertime (featuring Baha Men), To All the Girls, Do You Remember

Background

• Follows Oh Aaron (2001); Nick Carter did not take part because he was working on his solo album
• Carter said he learned of the Baha Men feature on Summertime only after the collaboration had been arranged
• Carter promoted the record on the Rock, Rap and Retro Tour
• Opening acts: Jump 5, No Secrets, Triple Image
• Became Carter's final studio album released under Jive Records

Recording

• Producers named include Rick Rock, Alex G, and the duo Shep & Kenny
• Discogs lists recording at Battery Studios in New York and Subsonic Studios in Brooklyn, among other studios
• Mastering credited to Chaz Harper at Battery Mastering Studios
• Carter recorded Do You Remember, a track originally conceived at a slower tempo

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · ko.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Aaron Charles Carter (1987–2022) was an American singer and rapper.
• He began performing at age seven after his brother Nick formed the Backstreet Boys' group.
• He was the lead singer of Dead End at age seven before leaving after two years to pursue pop music.

Career

• He made his first solo appearance at age nine, opening for the Backstreet Boys in Berlin in March 1997.
• His self-titled debut album (1997) sold one million copies worldwide.
• His second album, Aaron's Party (Come Get It) (2000), sold over three million copies in the United States.
• Oh Aaron (2001) went platinum; he also acted in Lizzie McGuire and played JoJo in the Broadway musical Seussical.
• He joined Dancing with the Stars in 2009 and starred in the off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks in 2011.
• His final album, Blacklisted, was released two days after his death in 2022.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Entertainment Weekly joked that the album showed the singer as both a sensitive boyfriend and a warrior for the downtrodden
• Entertainment Weekly also said his white-rap threat was more credible than LFO
• AllMusic called it his best album to date and an overlooked hidden treasure of early 2000s teen pop
• The Nando Times considered it a perfectly reasonable follow-up to Carter's earlier albums and praised the maturity shown on When It Comes to You and Summertime
• Yahoo! wrote that the album is filled with aerobic beats, good-time feelings, and tons of hooks, likening its teen pop to candy and soda
• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette criticized the ill-advised rap attempts and overly commercial sound, but said the ballads and To All the Girls improved
• The New Straits Times described it as serviceable pop with tightly coiled grooves, while criticizing its 90s-style pop sterility

Records

• Debuted at number 18 on the US Billboard 200 with 41,000 units sold
• Fell to number 41 in its second week with 21,000 units sold
• Sold much less than Oh Aaron

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Carter said he did not know Baha Men would be on Summertime until the collaboration was already arranged, and felt the singer was used to support another artist.
• Do You Remember was recorded even though it was originally conceived at a slower tempo.
• The music video for Summertime was shot in the Bahamas.
• America A O became the most requested song in the entire history of Radio Disney.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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