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Aaliyah

These days it seems hard to find a singer that can really express a story through lyrics and give such dynamical thrust to any beat better than Aaliyah Dana Haughton. She is hitting you with the elements. Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Spirit, Notes, Articulation, Rhythm, Tone, Phrasing, Space... Everything.

Like picture a beat moving in time and at any give moment a singer could lay back on the beat or maybe just sing right in the middle of the beat or maybe give the melody a sense of urgency but singing a little ahead. All of these are effective tools to create certain vibes. Some people only hit you with one of those approaches, she hits you with total command of all three. Not many people can do that. Quincy Jones said that's what was special about Sinatra. Hey, greatness is greatness.

One thing that I am really missing from current R & B or pop singers both male and female, is that ability to sing with just the appropriate amount of vibrato and that naturally warm yet brilliant quality of tone.
Most singers, they always gotta go G.O.A.T. ;(

Not Aaliyah. Not ever.

Every note she sings is gold. One of favorite moments are 2:24 in "One in a

Million." Just pure hotness for for example. No one can argue that she is anything but pure heaven to one's ears. Listening to her, It's almost like getting an inner ear massage. Just millions of little atomic Aaliyah vibrations singing to your cilia to life.

Just how she rides the beat is extremely fly. Revisit "Rock the Boat," it's just so sick. Her ad libs on there are what I'm talking about.

It also must be noted that for for all of the light and beauty that she embodied, their was a darkness to her style and aesthetic, that really dovetails nicely with her gorgeous voice and over all prettiness. Just go back and check out "We Need A Resolution,"

With all that being said, I look forward to releasing an EP of remixes taking some of the songs mentioned above and really exploring some new ways of approaching Aaliyah's music.

I came wanting to breath new life into her music and guess what?