The Female Boss is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter and N-Dubz member Tulisa.

It incorporates hip hop, grime and R&B styles while enlisting a variety of producers;[2][3] The-Dream, Fazer, Stereotypes, Rico Love, Diane Warren and Ed White, among others.

[6] "Visa" was originally recorded by N-Dubz for their third studio album, Love.Live.Life in 2010 but didn't make the final track list.

[9] Lewis Corner from Digital Spy was less harsh, but criticised the production with The-Dream saying "The result is an overly-considered debut that suffers from one-too-many label hook-ups for a singer who is way out of her depth.

[2] Philip Matusavage from MusicOMH awarded it a single star out of five, saying "[The Female Boss] is more endurance test than anything else, with the strong sense of 'will this do?’."

He panned the intro and themes, calling them "hilarious" and felt "bafflement is typical of an album which has almost no identity of its own, instead sounding like a calculated effort to target certain demographic markets.

She found that Tulisa did not "convince" her abilities of producing pop and urban music and criticised it for being "fleeting and insufficient", calling the album "a lamentable debut all round.

"[3] On a more positive review, Andy Gill from The Independent compared the album to works of Rihanna, saying that she "tries to turn adversity to her advantage, employing the incident as her own version of the familiar R&B soap-opera gambit, whereby the private life becomes the subtext," but he nevertheless felt most of the songs were bad.

[10] The Female Boss entered the UK Albums Chart lower than its midweek position of 17, debuting at number 35 with over 15,000 copies sold.

"[24] "Live Your Life" (previously revealed to be "Freedom", and later re-titled) was written and produced by fellow N-Dubz musician Fazer, and is similar to her debut single, "Young".