Quote from: .betterwiseup on June 09, 2016, 05:15:35 PM
I think the marriage license was a publicity stunt to get people talking.
The interviewer brought up the marriage rumors
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Talking? Robert could have (should have) gone to jail for that. And Aaliyah was put in a really bad position once it came to light. It followed her to this day.
Imagine you have a major artist-producer who takes the helm of a young prot?g?s ENTIRE project. Every note she sang was produced by R Kelly. He even lurked on her album cover.
Suddenly, the scandal breaks and they have to annul the marriage, lie and deny, and deal with a ton of backlash. Oh, and she can never work with him again, for propriety's sake. Now she has to record a second album with an entirely restructured sound and image because she can't depend on the guy who helped make her a star, the only person she worked with up to this point.
Thankfully, she met virtual unknowns Timbaland and Missy, and the rest is history. But it could have just as easily gone the other way with Aaliyah flopping and fading into obscurity without R Kelly. Her uncle said they had a hard time finding big producers to work with her on OIAM.
That marriage license and scandal really almost ruined her career. It certainly damaged her reputation.
If she were alive when the R Kelly sex tapes leaked, she would have never heard the end of it. They may have called her to the stand.