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Producer Stuart Brawley gives some background info on the making of "Come A Little Closer" from the Full Moon album

thestuartbrawley Sound on. In the middle of my time with MJ, I was in Miami mixing at the Hit Factory Criteria, and Michael's producer Rodney had sent a demo of a song I wrote with @jason_derlatka to NSYNC for possible inclusion on their next album. We were blasting it in the control room when Brandy (working in another room at the facility) came bursting in and exclaimed WHAT IS THIS, I NEED TO RECORD THIS SONG. What followed was me working out of two rooms for a few weeks - ping ponging between mixing Michael Jackson and co-producing Brandy with RJ and Jason, and Tommy Mottola at one point calling to lecture me that I needed to prioritize Michael's mixing. We tracked live strings at Capitol records with a sweet arrangement by Jeremy Lubbock and then brought in Babyface's mixer Jon Gass.

"Come A Little Closer" was mixed for radio at one point in preparation for it being the next single off of "Full Moon." As fate would have it, Brandy got pregnant and all promo from the album stopped. I'll post the demo that Jason sang at some point.

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[Kaeli.]

Come a little closer would've been a cute single

much better than PEE is. Full Moon is the one Brandy album outside of NSN that had a decent amount of potential hits. Anybody, Nothing, When You Touch Me etc

They all probably would've flopped tho seeing as how Brandy stopped promoting the mess before syrai was born

[RAY7]

Loooove this song 
she SANG her face off
 at her just BURSTING in the room demanding a song 

[Vonc2002]

Not come a bit closer being a single.  They didn't give af how that album did

[ATLien]

Not come a bit closer being a single.  They didn't give af how that album did

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[ATLien]

i actually love CALBC i think it woulda smashed on pop radio or something

very lullaby-ish. sing along friendly

[RAY7]

Yea I think it was probably between this an that Pop version of He Is. I'm glad it was neither though. If anything she needed to stay R&B focused 

[Demetri Collier Electronics 🤴🏾]

I definitely could see calbc doing damage on pop especially during late fall/winter months 

['ology]

They were really gonna chose every song except I thought as the next single huh

[Scott.]

The next single should've been "I Thought"

however this is one of my favorite song on FM

[RAY7]

I wouldn't have been mad at Like This for 3rd single. She had 2 bops already released she needed something slower. I'd say When You Touch Me but it's just so HUGE it's kinda too good for radio IMO

[Demetri Collier Electronics 🤴🏾]

The ballads were the standouts as fan faves at my high school. I wanted apart/anybody/I thought to get single treatment.

The next single should've been "I Thought"

however this is one of my favorite song on FM

I agree with this.

[long-timeXMasPartyFor2Fan]

A brandy n'sync remix if the single took off would have been cute too

[Kaeli.]

Not come a bit closer being a single.  They didn't give af how that album did

[l-]pk0o[j9-uhy8'0ut79yfr68tde57ris46eu5sir6dt7fy6gu70g8u'7f9y6;8dt57sro4

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it's a cute 4th single mess 

[b7]

This song doesn't get enough praise. She really slaughtered this from start to finish

Some of my FAVORITE Brandy adlibs