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[ssw4919]

 


What were your feelings about R&B at the time of recording Complex Simplicity? How did you want to shake up the genre, per se?


I didn't, I didn't really care. (laughs) I really wanted to be a chick that sung over hip-hop beats. What changed everything for me from wanting to be a person that sang over harder beats, was Aaliyah's "Rock the Boat." I didn't really want to come in and change nothing, I just wanted to make an album that sounded like "Rock the Boat," because that song reminds me of a time I was nostalgic to when I was young in New Orleans and all these sounds, they felt so good. "Rock the Boat" will rock forever, it's a timeless record. It will work for the rest of our lives. Until the end of the world, "Rock the Boat" will work, and I wanted to make an album that felt like that.


That album became this classic:

[Marilyn]

I think about her often. She should've been a star. It just wasn't meant to be.

[DopeSoul.]

GODra

wait 

[bby ddy]

Complex Simplicity was an ALBUM.


Let me go listen

[Young]

Backstroke ACK

[ssw4919]

Aaliyah really saved us from having Teedra rappin over 2004 snap beats.  

[United Nations Barbie 🇺🇳]

I love this album cover, one of my favorite covers but I have no clue what the songs sound like or any of her songs. Maybe I'll give a listen tomorrow

[DopeSoul.]

n

[L0NZ.]

I love this album cover, one of my favorite covers but I have no clue what the songs sound like or any of her songs. Maybe I'll give a listen tomorrow

You can be such a disappointment

[Demetri Collier Electronics 🤴🏾]

Its a cute album but people overhyped her album to me. It is solid though.

[ssw4919]

[DopeSoul.]

"Caution" is a groove

BITCH

[L0NZ.]

"Caution" is a groove

BITCH

!!!!!

You'll Never Find is what made me finally want to produce and inspired me to buy Fruity Loops back in 2004/5

LAST DAY tho. Probably my fav. That intermission before the second verse is soooooo beautiful. It be the little things in songs for me, then everything else has to form around it.

[L0NZ.]

Outta My Head
For A Lifetime
Caught Up

this album is one of those unexpected, lone gems that define a time. It's pretty much perfect and sits beside "All I Have" absolutely. I always think of one when I think of the other. The only songs I don't really care for are Take Me and You Better Tell Her

[ReVonIsMine]

I WAS NEVER INTO HER AND THEN ONE DAY LIKE A YEAR AGO I LISTENED TO THIS ALBUM AND 
CUSSED MYSELF OUT. WTF WAS I THINKING? THIS IS  SUCH A GREAT BODY OF WORK.
I'M STILL NOT TOO KEEN ON HER PERSONALITY BUT SHE IS A GREAT SINGER-SONGWRITER.