aaliyah

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in retrospect, it's striking how she has not in fact been replaced by anyone.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"

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