great. so you clarified yourself. now i can see even clearer tha youre wrong.
I didn't clarify anything, you accused me of saying something I didn't say. You were wrong off that alone
"sittin up in my room" wasnt a smash hit now? not to mention the singles that came before that. i see that im talking to an idiot now. i might be about done after this post. ur wasting people's time with this bullchit.
I don't remember it being some groundbreaking hit but I could be wrong. Not gonna argue about it because that wasn't the point I made. The point I made was that her biggest undeniable hit was "The Boy Is Mine," and that's her only album that has outsold Aaliyah's. There's nothing wrong about that statement, and nothing that needs clarification.
i dont know where you get your numbers from saying aalyiah outsold their debuts. i really dont care tho. stick to number crunching or "number crunching" and i'll stick to the outside world.
Like I said, if you want an undeniable source, then you already know that's hard to get. I can prove to you however that Aaliyah sold 190,000 first week and that none of Brandy's first three did.
Aaliyah: Biography from Answers.com Aaliyah 190,000
Got Charts? The Long Road To #1 And Those Who Rocked It - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV.com Brandy - Never Say Never 160,000 out the gate
i never said aalyiah wasnt on monica & brandy's level. i said she was always a step behind them in terms of popularity, status & hits. she was the 3rd wheel. only category i may have said that aalyiah isnt on their level in, is talent. and im sure even you would agree.
You said "no aalyiah was not as big as monica or brandy." So you were talking about her talent then? No, pretty sure the sentence before that is what you were referring to..."she was always a step behind them in terms of popularity, status & hits." Aka...she wasn't on their level. And the fact is, except for Never Say Never, they were all pretty much the same in terms of popularity...just in different demographics.
i dont care about movies. im talking r&b here. and for the record, "romeo must die" wasnt her movie. get real.
She wasn't a main character in Romeo Must Die? Her and Jet Lie were the main character's...the "Romeo & Juliet." Sit down. And she gave rave reviews for her acting in both this and that piece of trash Queen of the Damned movie. And movies is only brought up in terms of popularity and "looks"
as for what looks they were getting, i already broke all that down like twice. this is why i dont like arguing with people like you. you just ignore chit and keep repeating yourself, even if youre out-of-pocket. all to defend people that could care less about your existence.
you mean like you're doing?
But I digress. When I hear the word "looks," I hear the word "opportunities." I hear "awards and achievements." And any quick look at the history of all three divas paint a similar picture. If we look at awards and achievements...there's no gap there. They all have about the same number of awards that actually matter musically. And Monica's award list outside of "the Boy is Mine"....paltry. If we look at opportunities outside of music, Aaliyah clearly had the most looks. She was the only out of the three getting SIGNIFICANT acting roles before she died. With that comes popularity...with popularity comes an increase in sales. But I don't need to tell you that. Which comes back full circle to the point I made about how Aaliyah's star was rising while Brandy and Monica were starting to fade. By the time of Aaliyah's death, Moesha wasn't popping and her third album couldn't outsell her second. Monica really never did shyt as far as acting goes (though she did try).
And they all had cosigns by important singers in the game. Aaliyah was cosigned by Janet...so please, make it clear for us what you mean by "looks"
and for the record, i liked aalyiah more than brandy & post-destinys child beyonce. but i live in reality.
The same reality where Aaliyah couldn't outsell Brandy and Monica (a comment you cosigned), even though a look at the sales says otherwise?
The same reality where Monica was always #1 or #2 in the mainstream/hood even though she never outsold Aaliyah's albums and anybody growing up in the hood would list 4 Page Letter as one of their top R&B tracks?
The same reality where "Aaliyah" was considered a failure and pushed off to the side even though it sold more in the first week than any of her previous albums, and went gold BEFORE she died?
The same reality where "Aaliyah" had "a year's worth of non-stop pub and it still didn't crack two millie?" Even though it sold 3 million? 9 million worldwide?
You are among the nikkas who compare Aaliyah's singing to Ciara, Alicia Keys and Ashanti...all of whom were noted as singers who couldn't really sing when they started. But you can check Aaliyah's first album for good to great singing. You can peep her acapellas on Youtube and see that she wasn't mindblowingly amazing the way Monica or Beyonce could be, but she wasn't as poor as the above singers.
Yeah apparently we're not living in the same reality
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i just threw 2 names out there on the humbug. i take my Ls proudly.
