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Still sad though...what's sadder is that I'll probably get her album this week, now she's had that bit of free advertising.

― DG, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Argh, don't get me started on that - I was going to buy her album. I really liked We Need a Resolution and was waiting to hear a few more tunes from it before I decided, because I'm not a huge Aaliyah fan in the past and I hate getting burnt on albums where I only like one thing. So I finally heard some more of the songs over the past week, downloading and all. And I decided I'd buy the album when I got paid this week. Now I refuse to do it because I don't want to be one of those people who buy albums because someone's dead. I don't want the stupid snotty punka cashiers at Tower thinking I'm doing that. Grr.

― Ally, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Order it online. It'll be cheaper, too. And will be rec'd in 3 to 5 business days.

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.

― David Raposa, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's the big deal? She ain't exactly Lauryn Hill or Aretha....

― tony, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank god she's not Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill sucks.

― Ally, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

not as much as the no-talent, over produced, alliyah. this cult of death is stupuid. she is going to have eighteen b-sides album this year. just you wait and see. gawd.

― tony, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't care who sucks more, Lauryn Hill still sucks.

― Ally, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aaliyah had that most fragile of Pop Star qualities: elegance.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh do fuck off! elegance! she was a bloody pre-fabricated diva!

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

― tony, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, a man of charity and vision, that's you. Do you visit road accidents so you can jerk off over the mangled steel? Sheesh.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She was no SRV.

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

― zacko, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh please.

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.

― tony, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You don't have to think she has the talent of the stars at all regardless of death or life, and I didn't know her either, big surprise. I am not paralyzed with grief -- considering a board regular here and on ILE just lost his wife to incurable illness, my feelings are much more thoroughly committed elsewhere on that regard. But it seems all you can do prove how badass and 'real' you are and all, offering up cliches about celebrity cults and the like -- in which, why bother posting to the thread if you have nothing more to offer that than tawdry obviousness?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if the strokes died i would be shattered. everything is a cliche if you look at it close enough.

― tony, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The question is, why the hell did you care so much to jump in and say, basically, "Fuck it, she's dead, she sucked anyhow, let's start the party up". I mean, whatever, yo, if it works for you but doncha think it's a teensy bit childish and trollish?

― Ally, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It would be trollish if he posted it on an Aaliyah bulletin board... so far he's just adding to the discussion.

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

― Sean, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You saying "I wasn't familiar with her" does not equal trolling. Someone coming in and saying "Who cares? It's not like I liked her" is just obnoxious.

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.

― Ally, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, I wasn't going to buy the album cos she died, it is now just a bit more prominent in my mind, 'tony'. Your posting style is awfully familiar.

― DG, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aaliyah's death is a tragedy for music, because she was at the vanguard of pop and r&b, pulling the mainstream towards newer and more exciting styles and sounds. Her last album is a beautiful record and although I can understand anyone feeling squamish about buying it shortly after her death I don't think that's good enough reason to postpone hearing it. I was shocked by the news, not because Aaliyah was pretty or famous, but because her music means something to me. I wish it had been one of the thousands of pop musicians I couldn't care less about, not Aaliyah.

― JoB, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

True Job, so very true.

― Omar, Tuesday, 28 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's the dealio with her dying? She is so old skool! Respect.

― p. diggy, Tuesday, 28 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Im not one for getting worked up about celebrity deathes. I have enough people dieing around me that I do have to deal with (like most people do I assume).

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.

― zacko, Tuesday, 28 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

In retrospect, it's striking (or saddening, depending on your views) how quickly she has been replaced by Ashanti.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

still think she was amazing... her and lisa left eye lopes were two of the most charismatic women in r&B and both sadly missed

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Four years now...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

"if the strokes died i would be shattered"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

tony's a real dick!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Tony is I assume long gone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

NEVER FORGET

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Saturday, 4 March 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.getinfo247.info/amnesia-phobia.gif

― amateurist0, Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

I can honestly say that no female r&b singer has touched my life the same way since. I think she had a unique way of riding a beat, fitting her words in. I think she was important. And I think r&b would have been more interesting if she'd been making records in the last few years.

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.

― jules deferens, Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

RIP Aaliyah

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Its been 5 years.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine I've made since it happened was a dear friend of another one of the victims, Gina Smith. She was quite an astonishing person, by all accounts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

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, 25 August 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

In retrospect, it's striking (or saddening, depending on your views) how quickly she has been replaced by Ashanti.

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.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

She would have been 29 today.

― Tape Store, Thursday, 17 January 2008 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 17 January 2008 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

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"

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 17 January 2008 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

R.I.P. Baby Girl.

― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

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

― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

few days**

― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Tape Store, Monday, 1 September 2008 05:51 (seventeen years ago)

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

and static major..

― daria-g, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

never forget

RIP babygirl :(

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:08 (sixteen years ago)

:-(

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

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, 25 August 2009 15:35 (sixteen years ago)

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

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:37 (sixteen years ago)

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

― maciej recognizing trill, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:58 (sixteen years ago)

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just buy the albums tbh

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:33 (twelve years ago)

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

― flopson, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:37 (twelve years ago)

she has 3 albums, buy them

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:38 (twelve years ago)

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

― flopson, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:39 (twelve years ago)

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

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:43 (twelve years ago)

"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

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:44 (twelve years ago)

Oh yeah, "Come Back in One Piece" totally

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:44 (twelve years ago)

"Man Undercover"

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

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:46 (twelve years ago)

oh, "Final Warning" obviously obviously obviously

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

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:55 (twelve years ago)

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

― dyl, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 20:47 (twelve years ago)

that soundtrack had some jams on it!

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

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:06 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

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

― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 26 February 2016 01:08 (ten years ago)

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

― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 26 February 2016 01:08 (ten years ago)

ignore that second post, technical difficulties

― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 26 February 2016 01:11 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

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

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:15 (five years ago)

i miss aaliyah

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 25 June 2020 19:50 (five years ago)

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.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 26 June 2020 05:12 (five years ago)

one month passes...

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

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:40 (five years ago)

i miss aaliyah

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:40 (five years ago)

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.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:30 (five years ago)

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

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:40 (five years ago)

four months pass...

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

― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 01:30 (five years ago)

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

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:03 (five years ago)

six months pass...

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

― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Thursday, 5 August 2021 20:49 (four years ago)

Awesome!

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:01 (four years ago)

Fucking finally

― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 August 2021 23:40 (four years ago)

Timbaland and Magoo discog too!

― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 August 2021 23:41 (four years ago)

although

#IStandWithAaliyah pic.twitter.com/Q2zgAvRAgX
— Aaliyah (@AaliyahHaughton) August 5, 2021

― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Thursday, 5 August 2021 23:46 (four years ago)

wonder who runs that account.

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Friday, 6 August 2021 16:35 (four years ago)

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.)

― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Friday, 6 August 2021 16:41 (four years ago)

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

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Friday, 6 August 2021 16:58 (four years ago)

one year passes...

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

― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 January 2023 20:16 (three years ago)

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