Following her escape from an abusive marriage and her subsequent divorce, La Toya Jackson was reduced to performing in Europe and South America to start making money to pay off the huge debts which her ex-husband had accumulated in her name while they were married. In the wake of the September 11 attacks on New York in 2001, Jackson was moved to write 'Free The World', and the song's positive reception spurred her on to write more songs, ending up with a full album. The album's title, 'Startin' Over' was a reference to the six years that she'd spent out of the public's view in order to rebuild her life after divorcing husband/manager Jack Gordon. The original album was completed in September 2002 and issued as a promotional CD the following year in order to secure a distribution deal, but in 2006 the promo was leaked to the internet, and the official release was beset with years of delays, while in the interim Jackson recorded entirely new material that might be released in the future. 'Startin' Over' includes autobiographical tracks about her relationship with her abusive ex-husband and former manager, and several of them hint towards brutal beatings and plans to have her family killed, and one of the tracks, 'Mafia Style', is a reference to Gordon's meetings with mobsters on New York's Mulberry Street. In 2006 Jackson recorded a new song titled 'Starting Over', but plans to release it as a single that year were scrapped, and instead it was reconstituted as a jingle for Australian beverage maker Star Ice. In June 2011 she released the 'Starting Over' EP, which included the 2006 song of the same name, plus six tracks from the aborted album, and it's issue was timed to coincide with her book of the same name, with the EP being subtitled 'Songs That Inspired The Book'. This confirmed that the 'Startin' Over' album was finally consigned to the vaults, and so for fans who want to hear the rest of the scrapped record, here is the full 'Startin' Over' album, including a bonus dance remix of 'Free The World'.
Track listing
01 No More Drama
02 Just Wanna Dance
03 C'est La Vie
04 Anger Management (Skit)
05 Don't Want You No More
06 Home
07 Call Me
08 That's Why I Love You
09 Something About You
10 Mafia Style (Skit)
11 Should've Left You
12 Free The World
13 Player
14 You're So Nasty
15 Sorry Lies
16 Tropical Breeze
17 Free The World (Dance Remix)
