aaliyah

As I said on the thread over there -- my one fervent wish, beyond sympathy for all the bereaved, is that there be no horribly maudlin tribute records. "I'll Be Missing You" or "Candle in The Wind '97" were more than enough.

Of what relevance is the latter part of this sentence:

"Eight people, two women and six men, died in the crash, all of them Americans."

I'm all for having less Americans on the planet, but not under this circumstance. Are the English supposed to release a collective "whew" upon reading that part?

so i wake up, see this subject and: my God. this is far too shocking, it really hasn't registered at all. a terrible loss, to be sure, one i can't fully measure at this juncture.

She seemed like a good person to me, I liked her well enough, I'm sorry for her family and the families of her crew.

Like I said, she seemed like a solid, nice, mostly clean-cut girl. As for the thing about her plane - it happens, the dynamics of planes are so random at times, they could've thrown in a handful of souvenirs from the island and that could've been the straw, if it was indeed overloading that did in the plane. It's not necessarily a diva- syndrome where her PAs were tossing things against the will of the airport, they could've just not known or figured they weren't adding a lot of stuff so it'd be fine.

And, speaking as someone that ain't exactly Mr. R&B, her newest album is a damn fine album indeed. I, too, am avoiding purchasing said album for the time being, because I don't want the impetus behind me buying her record to be her death.

hahahaha!!!! people die everyday, she was just one of them.

"No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs." - R. Frost

more cult of the dead. if your neighbour died would you know or care to post this on the internet?

fact remains. you don't know her. i don't know her. i don't think she has the talent of the stars now that she is dead. just being honest, no flaky poetry for me.

I've never even heard of Aaliyah, and that's not a troll.

Quite frankly, I didn't particularly care for most of her music. I didn't feel the need to make it a salient point and come marching into the thread telling people to get off it, though.

SRV was the last one to get me worked up when I was younger. I guess it was inflamatory saying whose death meant more to me rather then saying I just dont care. Its all kinda morbid, like trying to decide who died cooler, JC or JFK.

I remember seeing "Try again" on a hotel tv in Las Vegas back to back with D'angelo's "untitled" and thinking: r&b is going to be something to watch for the next few years. And it was true--for a while.

in retrospect, it's striking how she has not in fact been replaced by anyone. you can see/hear her influence all over the place (ciara, cassie, etc.) but if anything a little distance makes her seem more distinctive. and boy do her records still sound good.

She would have been 29 today.

:(

I honestly believe One in a Million was the start of the current era of R&B/Hip-Hop

-- Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, August 25, 2006 11:59 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Feel free to back me up here!
Aaliyah's "One in a Million" vs. Guns N'Roses' "One in a Million"

R.I.P. Baby Girl.

:(

it's almost been 7 years in a few years can you believe it

few days**

god, what a sad day. i remember secretly crying in the bathroom after i found out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgF0jJMpKuU

and static major..

never forget

RIP babygirl :(

:-(

recently i read some random last.fm user claiming that the baby sample on "are you that somebody" was from a home video of aaliyah herself at 18 months. i hope that's true!

Pulled out the final s/t album the other day and daaaaaaaamn it's fantastic, still.

fairly safe to say this is the first time I've been moved by a trending topic on twitter

o rly the Iran election riots didn't do it for you?

haha, indeed, I think I got on twitter just after those

the earliest two deaths that i can remember where i was as a kid are princess diana & aaliyah

At least once a day, ILX reminds me I'm old.

Aaliyah's death seems like last week to me.

i remember exactly where i was when i found out - hmv oxford, in the dvd aisle. on the phone to a friend who also loved aaliyah. had to take a moment in a quiet corner of the shop.

HAWK-HANDLING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xio1v_FBDAE

her wink halfway thru <3

:(

Life is so precious.

rip bbg.

recently i read some random last.fm user claiming that the baby sample on "are you that somebody" was from a home video of aaliyah herself at 18 months. i hope that's true!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:35 PM (4 hours ago)

read this somewhere too, maybe wikipedia?

http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/f859l.gif

I was in Germany, getting ready to leave Luebbeck to head for Luzern, Switzerland on tour with the BSO; the only people in the choir who even knew who she was were me, my wife, and a friend we'd made before joining the chorus who encouraged us to audition.

As we watch this vision of an angel that touched our hearts
we will remember her spirit flying free along with the stars
she'll soar high above us with our eternal love
and one day we all will fly along

Aaliyah
1979-2001

The 2004 expanded edition of Aaliyah will make my top ten of the decade. Super album.

We need her now, more than ever. 8 years and I still can't listen to "Let Me Know (At Your Best)" without tears.

She was one of my favorites too. R.I.P.

The 2004 expanded edition of Aaliyah will make my top ten of the decade. Super album.

― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OK, I'd never heard "Don't Know What To Tell Ya" before and this is pretty awesome, but it's still pretty weird to rep for a random German edition of the album with a few bonus tracks when the original LP is great as is

We need her now, more than ever. 8 years and I still can't listen to "Let Me Know (At Your Best)" without tears.

― Spinspin Sugah, Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:04 PM Bookmark

somehow I never heard this until a year or two ago and was totally bowled over by what an amazing talent we'd lost when I heard it

that track is gorgeous, i played it at my wedding.

I came here with the intention of posting the Are You That Somebody video, but lex beat me :) What an amazing song.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leeonxdH5D1qc2yc7o1_500.png

chandelier earrings <3 <3

such a beautiful photo

gorgeous - i love her signature swoop-bang over one eye too

this chopped & screwed aaliyah album is incredibly bizarre, interesting, beautiful & heartbreaking -- i still listen to it from time to time

http://realniggatumblr.tumblr.com/post/1244206719/dj-d-the-best-of-aaliyah-the-final-flight-chopped

by album i mean mix

As I said on the thread over there -- my one fervent wish, beyond sympathy for all the bereaved, is that there be no horribly maudlin tribute records. "I'll Be Missing You" or "Candle in The Wind '97" were more than enough.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:00 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark

yeah the jay z remix of "i miss you" and the video w/ all her friends and the DMX speech at the start kinda bucked this trend. beautiful song and a sweet tribute

did aaliyah have like a lazy eye r smthng

if she did she'd be rolling it at you right now

idk the hair sweep, the sunglasses

it was a mystique thing iirc

to think that lazy eye could have been used to promote HIV awareness

o_O

o_\ morelike

ha

speaking of o_O & o_\, the contrast between this thread & the "lol lisa lopez died" one is striking

did aaliyah have an alex chilton collab or

did aaliyah have like a lazy eye r smthng

that was gabrielle

i'm sure if she were still alive the illuminati puppet police would be after her for that hair sweep

idk lex, google aaliyah and lazy eye

"come over" came on on the radio today ^_^

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SJFYFNZrMyc/S1F1FhetGII/AAAAAAAAA8A/13XBXYe_iuM/s400/aaliyah-airbrush.jpg

She would've been 32yo today. Damn, I miss that face.

CHOOSEY LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVER

the amount of times per week that i end up listening to that song at 4 am should prob embarrass me

not embarrassing, completely natural

i think her vocals on this song are my fav by her, at least the first half of the song

Her "Choosy Lover" just makes me want to listen to the original, whereas she makes "At Your Best" her own.

http://www.youtube.com/user/AaliyahVEVO

looks like they recently added more videos to the official aaliyah vevo account \(^o^)/

THANK YOU BASED MARKERS

lack of hq aaliyah videos on youtube is a crime

I Care 4 U might be one of my favourite songs committed to record. Waltz time! That piano trill! Her vocal performance! Sigh.

the fucking drums!

guys

spotify

kidz bop 2 (2002)

track ten

listen to the first seconds

how is this real

is that you irl?

oh

oh dear

it's true, it's me -- that's how i sounded in 2002

kshdriveway

Ha ha! That Timbaland wannabe is terrible and the entire timing is off!

tryin' to be extra extra extra smooth

This albums sounds like it was recorded on the most elegant spaceship ever.

not on spotify yet :(

You may have a wait there. The Red Album and One in a Million have been out of print in the US for years.

the red album has been out of print? wtf

since at least 2005, if not earlier.

wtf

No, it doesn't make sense.

otm

That's Blackground for you. *shrugs*

The Red Album and One in a Million have been out of print in the US for years.

...my head hurts.

For the past 3 weeks I have been walking around singing "We Need A Resolution" to myself. I was actually hanging out w this dude I met in Portland and at one point mostly-jokingly said to him "btw I have this bad habit of just spontaneously singing Aaliyah songs at any given moment so just heads up" and then like not 5 min later I was opening a pizza to put in the oven and totally w/o realizing it got all "whass yo' prooooblem / let's resolve" under my breath.

hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDeqRxqaQoA

^The most amazing Aaliyah song I never heard before.

Ten years today.

RIP babygirl.

listening to one in a million, god i love "i gotcha back"

Hell.

I still get genuinely upset and start thinking "what if they just had a slightly different idea for that music video, what if what if" every time I think about it. But god damnit if Rock the Boat isn't the GOAT.

rock the goat, rock the goat, rock the goat, rock the goat, work the billy

rip babygirl we'll always luv u

just literally face palmed at my desk xpost

TEN YEARS AGO

i'll just go ahead and order my AARP magazine subscription

http://www.thefader.com/2008/05/14/exclusive-freeload-caps-aaliyah-u-r-missed-pts-1-2/
http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/25/aaliyah-angel-so-fly-2/ (this is 3 yrs old but looks cool)

last.fm'ing the hell out of her catalogue this morning

your smile
your style
is so fly
i can't deny

i was watching mtv news when they reported her death, i still remember being like "how could this HAPPEN?"

i'm devoting the better part of today to listening to her nonstop (like i need any excuse, really)

"never comin' back" <3

I know that "If Your Girl Only Knew" isn't her best song, but for most people it would be, and the fact that she eclipsed that many times over is like...ugh, you are missed girl.

hope you don't think you can throw the line over me
'cause i i know what's going on~~

http://www.inflexwetrust.com/2011/08/25/dj-mister-cee-tribute-mix-to-aaliyah-on-hot-97s-throwback-at-noon/

ran through every song of hers i have on my ipod this morning

It's so weird that I don't remember finding out she died. It happened during a period (probably the last one) where I wasn't paying that much attention to music tho.

Like I feel like I learned of it from a classmate, but I wouldn't have been in school until at least a couple of weeks after it happened.

would have been 33 today, happy birthday

i'm listening to aaliyah and crying right now. it's mad real y'all.

http://youknowigotsoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/J-Dub-Aaliyah-News.jpg

hmmm

Heard it, it's rubbish

no i like that song. just unsure about this album business

yeah, i highly doubt the album will be good. "Steady Ground" is just cloying to me though

had never heard this before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RFHquGiWo

had never heard this before two days ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SM9yEYEf_kY

that jay remix was huge!

fucking terrible, son

fucking creep needs to leave aaliyah the fuck alone

^^^^^^^

wait, so what's the deal here? there's a trove of unreleased aaliyah shit and drake is gonna put it out with him rapping over it?

afaict nothing has been confirmed by her label/estate/etc. so who knows if anything's going to happen beyond this one song

in all honesty, as despicable is the thought of that would be, i might actually be ok with the idea of this if it means new aaliyah stuff. i wonder if she had any wishes wrt what she would want released if she died, or whether she even had control over that. given the nature of her death the former doesn't seem likely

yeah i definitely doubt someone that young dying that suddenly has any kind of documents stating what should be done w/ their uncompleted demos if they suddenly become valuable in the event of their death. but again SOMEBODY in her family and/or her label must have final say over these things. timbaland said he hasn't been contacted about the project but that it shouldn't be done w/o him and missy involved (which is obv true).

http://i.imgur.com/QosW1.gif

yeah you want to say leave it to those two which seems like the right-est thing to do but then again, what have those guys done in the last 5 years that would make you think it'd be any good. aaliyah's music is timeless and singular but also benefitted from some of gthe greatest ever (r kelly, missy, timbo) being on the tops of their games at roughly the same time. if the full tracks are just sitting there that's one thing but if not, who knows if her leftover material will get the complementary help it deserves?

amazing gif btw good work

someone said this on twitter but i'm curious as to what these vocals are from. why can't we hear the original iteration of whatever this song is

this sounds like it could've been okay but drake's verse is awful. i mean, it wouldn't be awful on a normal drake song but it feels completely out of place here

afaict nothing has been confirmed by her label/estate/etc. so who knows if anything's going to happen beyond this one song

― Diary of a Whiney Kid: Dog Days (some dude), Sunday, August 5, 2012 6:52 PM Bookmark

The source of the track is Blackground's soundcloud page.

drake: f u f u f u f u f u

:(

http://jawnita.tumblr.com/post/28818674747/this-is-aaliyah-with-her-mother-and-best-friend

PREACH

"swervin with Balotelli"

christ

why can't we hear the original iteration of whatever this song is

Because it is probably better than this garbage.

Treach & Slick Rick
& Drake

"What's up?"

My thoughts exactly.

fuck drake.. this is offensive IMO

https://twitter.com/AaliyahsGhost

YASSSSS

ahahahahahaha

this is pretty fucked up

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/08/aaliyah_enough_said_drake.php

Went from my nigga serving it by the tele
To venues in Manchester just swerving with Balotelli
The fuck are you trying to tell me?
Bothers me when you got to play therapist
That shit’s embarrassin’
They even bring up these niggas make the comparison
They just got to forgive me, this watch is a 150
Still ain’t got the time for a bitch to be acting iffy
Running through the city with niggas I’d give a kidney
Selling under 150 you niggas gotta be kidding
Is this even still a discussion?
Don’t you ever wake up disgusted?
Every million I gain an enemy or a cousin
And people’s feelings have changed ever since I became somethin’
Girls that becoming ladies
And my friends are having babies
And babies are dropping dead in my city
This shit is crazy
And I don’t know if speaking on it helps
This the shit that’s on my mind I just keep it to myself
You know

this is making me nauseous

is the SIDS rate really high in Toronto or something

This the shit that’s on my mind I just keep it to myself

apparently you don't!

Mario Balotelli Voice

http://youtu.be/CgMqkdCg-F8

Ergh, the WORST.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/426614_10152035163905515_828497835_n.jpg

oh lord

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71175986.html

aaliyah's brother favourited a fan letter criticising drake's involvement in all of this <3

11 years ago today

wait wasn't it just ten years ago today like a few weeks ago????

I posted this in another thread and nobody cared but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZsEEPo_Tw

:O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJ2kblbChk

eminem was the one who broke the news of aaliyah's passing to me. well he announced it during his set at the reading festival and asked for a moment of silence, the majority of the crowd didn't co-operate. He wasn't impressed.

I posted this in another thread and nobody cared but

ha no it knocked me out & made me think about sampling & beatjacking a lot - what's really interesting is when it gets to a chord change & goes in a different direction that timbaland's version didn't, & was better for. weird to hear.

this is incredible http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1693774/dmx-drake-aaliyah-collaboration.jhtml?xrs=share_twitter

:-D

DMX sums up my feelings on Drake perfectly:

I don’t like anything about Drake. I don’t like his voice. I don’t like what he talks about. I don’t like his face. I don’t like the way he walks. Let me shut up. Imma stop right there.

omg dmx i hadn't seen that ilu ilu ilu yesssss

and also bless missy and tim for protecting babygirl's legacy:

Last night, Missy Elliott and Timbaland dropped off two, long-teased new singles at New York’s Hot 97. While there, they spoke with Angie Martinez, adding a new chapter to the winding, sad tale of the rumored new Aaliyah album. “I don’t even know if it’s an album,” Timbaland said. “I don’t think that’s in the works. I don’t know, I think it’s blown out of proportion. I haven’t spoken to Drake yet.” Missy says she hasn’t been contacted either, adding, “No call has been made to me… We’re talking about unfinished music. And we don’t know her reasoning for not putting those records out. Maybe she didn’t feel like they were her best work. We just don’t want to tap into that, just spiritually something else you know… very, very touchy. Unless her parents came in and conducted that.” Timbaland also called Drake’s Aaliyah portrait tattoo into question, saying, “To me, the tattoo part, did that man come in here and show y’all? Like lift up his shirt?”

nice that tim is giving drake shade despite the two of them having worked together

is this drake thing the reason everyone aside from the usuals have been making it a point to assert that they love aaliyah lately? like it's reached semi-obnoxious mbv-revival levels

It's worse. It's not like most MBV newcomers/revivalists thought derisively of -- or ignored -- every other guitar-oriented band that was around during/after Loveless.

i haven't noticed this... who are some of the non-usuals who started loving aaliyah 4 weeks ago?

all the quotes from the dude in yeasayer are a pretty good example

i wasn't even thinking famous types just random whoevers tweeting and whatnot but i guess the famous types apply too

right, i think the idea is that that guy is representative of a certain group (altho prob a bit douchier)

haha, I'm kind of trying to tone down my "usual"-ness for ~personal~ reasons. red album desktop wallpaper: gone.

keep in mind tho, that the anniversary of her death was a couple weeks ago, so that might have some to do with the love-in.

Twelve years.

"my one fervent wish, beyond sympathy for all the bereaved, is that there be no horribly maudlin tribute records."

oh god did you have any idea

I just knew.

haha, I'm kind of trying to tone down my "usual"-ness for ~personal~ reasons. red album desktop wallpaper: gone.

― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:44 AM Bookmark

haha the ~personal~ reasons were bc I was dating a member of the Haughton family (like a second cousin or something) :-O

!

when he told me his last name after having already told me he was from Detroit I damn near fainted

so I'm near ready to pull the trigger on getting "Ultimate Aaliyah," a comp released in the UK. It seems like it has everything you need, cept "Age Ain't Nuthin' But a number," which I would understand if there was a desire to not emphasize. This copy is $35, 2 discs, and no DVD, which I'm not interested in.

Is this what I should go for if I want her shit in one place? That "I care for you" thing is cheaper, but it doesn't have "we need a resolution" or "rock the boat."

I've never bought a CD produced for the Euro market: are there still issues w/ regional coding?

and in case anyone sez "schmuck, you can d/l any song you want": I want to have a physical representation for songs I hold in such high esteem.

CDs have never been region coded

For $35 you could buy used or maybe even new copies of all three of her studio albums. That would seem the better investment to me. The only thing you'd be missing then is some of the soundtrack contributions, which that compilation does collect nicely, but are easy enough to download at a buck a pop. Feels like at that price point you really could legally own almost her entire discography, not just a selective two disc sampler.

just buy the albums tbh

i don't really rate the first album, is that bad?

she has 3 albums, buy them

what's essential but not on the albums, other than "are you that somebody" ?

"don't know what to tell ya", "come back in one piece", "miss you"

"Try Again", "I Miss U", and "Come Over" obv

"John Blaze"

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1y33w_john-blaze_music

"Girlfriends"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69n8MAPPTq8

Oh yeah, "Come Back in One Piece" totally

"Man Undercover"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKLXP-MaVY

oh, "Final Warning" obviously obviously obviously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU3zq_6MaPo

i recently bought a used copy of the dr. doolittle soundtrack for 2 bucks for "are you that somebody"

that soundtrack had some jams on it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-vOB_Dez8o

http://theporouscity.com/media/aaliyah_please.png

:(

http://theporouscity.com/media/aaliyah_please.png

ignore that second post, technical difficulties

https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3UqRTnFYu/?igshid=1ob0wezc6ff4r

i miss aaliyah

listening to the self-titled for the first time in many years and it's. . .oh, let's just say a hundred times better than i remembered it. and i remember thinking at the time, "she died after making her best album." untimely death or no, what an amazing album.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/aaliyah-estate-music-streaming.html

i miss aaliyah

I love Aaliyah, but the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this thread get bumped was "Ah! Leah!" by Donnie Iris.

i miss aaliyah

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, June 25, 2020 12:50 PM

Sounds like it’s not coming anytime soon: https://variety.com/2021/music/news/aaliyah-estate-update-streaming-services-1234887124/

i miss aaliyah
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, June 25, 2020 12:50 PM

Aaliyah’s music will officially be available on all major digital streaming platforms + physical albums. #AaliyahIsComing (Thread)
⁰08/20 - “One in a Million” Album pic.twitter.com/yCpw6XnBYq

— Blackground Records 2.0 (@Blackground) August 5, 2021

Awesome!

Fucking finally

Timbaland and Magoo discog too!

although

#IStandWithAaliyah pic.twitter.com/Q2zgAvRAgX

— Aaliyah (@AaliyahHaughton) August 5, 2021

wonder who runs that account.

It's her mom & brother - here's a long article about the recent developments. (Hope they get an accounting from the uncle and whatever $ they're entitled to, but this is very welcome news overall.)

that's stupid. what a stupid world we live in.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rock-the-boat-yacht-party-bday-tribute-to-aaliyah-tickets-509465303437