5. "RE: I feel like she was just hitting that sweet spot..." In response to Reply # 4
IMO Keybeats and Static were an amazing combo...
I do wonder if this was gonna happen. We forget the pressures of the early 2000s and I don't think that album does well if she doesn't pass. The vampire movie she was in that was supposed to be her acting breakout was terrible.
The beef with the Hankersons and timbo was already full blown (which is why he only has 3 songs on it) and they are the reason that her songs still weren't on streaming until recently.
So we have label beef brewing and her hitmaker estranged.. if the album doesn't do well then there could've easily been some terrible decisions made at the time. Even when we look back at Beyonce's transition through that period there are some really rough patches.
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So if this was how they were playing I think what happens is the album underperforms... Timbo and Missy are off to make a new superstar (They both got labels at that time.) and then Aaliyah is left w/o that direction and magic from the OG team.
She probably jumps fully into Hollywood... Ashanti and Beyonce still happen and then she fades a bit.
Double 0 DJ/Producer/Artist Producer in Kidz In The Hall ------------------------------------------- twitter: @godouble0 IG: @godouble0 www.thinklikearapper.com
9. "The album was underperforming until her death." In response to Reply # 8
We Need A Resolution and More Than A Woman didn't really move the needle as singles. Who knows if Rock The Boat would have actually hit like that if things were different. That's the part nobody wants to talk about.
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Aaliyah received highly positive reviews from critics and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, but sold diminishingly afterwards. When Blackground and Virgin wanted a high-charting single to increase the album's sales, Aaliyah shot a music video for the song "Rock the Boat" in the Bahamas, but died in a plane crash on a return flight to the United States on August 25.
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