The glossy girl- and boy-band era was at its peak at the turn of the century, and before pop acts would attempt to replace that sheen with cool, calling on “urban” producers like Timbaland and The Neptunes, Aaliyah modeled the perfect balance of pop, R&B, and hip-hop. In reviews and profiles from the time, Aaliyah is praised, at the expense of some of her peers, for eschewing the “candy-coated” sound and style of the charts actually, she was simply pre-empting the trends many of her peers would eventually try on. Her primary currency was an effortless cool matched only then by Janet Jackson and, all these years later, by Rihanna. “Never No More” is an emotional song about enduring and then rejecting abuse at the hands of a partner, “U Got Nerve” and “I Refuse” are formed around a similar suspicion and self-assurance. The album’s singles-“We Need A Resolution,” “More Than A Woman,” “Rock The Boat,”-are among her best, boldly off-kilter, imaginative, and alternately mellow and razor-edged. Though Aaliyah hadn’t yet become a writer, she was inordinately good at picking songs, absorbing them, and interpreting through her bright, wispy soprano. The result was something that diverged from the pop language du jour, yet somehow remained in conversation with it. This time, Aaliyah had added Static, who’d cut his teeth working with Ginuwine and in the R&B group Playa, as a writer. Even Timbaland’s grating, awkward raps and ad-libs are softened. Her falsetto had earned an edge, and her multi-part harmonies, arranged ingeniously, added grace and texture. She veers wildly, but cohesively, between the futuristic, triple-time experimentation of singles like “We Need A Resolution” and “More Than A Woman” and the throwback soul of “Never No More” and “I Care 4 U.” It was Aaliyah’s voice that strung it all together. By the time she began working on the album in 1998, she had developed an interest in both the experimental and traditional, and her collaborators on the album-the Supafriends as well as producers signed to her family’s Blackground record label-were up to the task. Dolittle soundtrack, changed everything: Aaliyah wasn’t just sweet and sly she revealed herself as endearingly weird and aspirationally cool-over a bizarre drum pattern and the sample of a baby’s coo, at that.Īaliyah took that many steps further. A couple of years later, “Are You That Somebody,” a single made for the Dr. Where Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number was defined by Kelly’s rote new jack swing and carried by her vocal depth, One In A Million was clever, fun, and forward-thinking. She really helped make us what we are today.” The gamble paid off. "From day one, she had that much faith in our music that she treated us like we already sold a million records, when we hadn't sold anything yet. “Tim and I were new producers," Missy told Rolling Stone in 2001. But with members of the Supafriends-Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and, eventually, the late Static Major-by her side, Aaliyah easily eclipsed her work with Kelly. Internally, there was a concern that her career would flounder, that she would not be able to match Kelly’s production and songwriting elsewhere. Kelly, ” Aaliyah is understood to have been a survivor of his predation, but at the time, many people blamed her for the secret relationship and the falsification of her age on a clandestine marriage certificate. Today, especially following testimony aired in Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly, who’d produced her 1994 platinum-selling debut Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.
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But in between being on set during the day and in the studio at night, Aaliyah also had a lot to reckon with. During that hiatus, she’d taken an interest in acting, starring in a couple of films and lining up others, including two upcoming Matrix movies. Just weeks earlier, she had released her third album, Aaliyah, a well-received collection of songs that mapped her personal growth during the five years since her second full-length, 1996’s One In A Million.
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