Aaliyah

Aaliyah never had a voice on the order of other R&B divas, but the production on this album is powerful -- techy, robotic and bass-driven. Aaliyah's just heavier-than-a-feather voice navigates the terrain nicely. The album has spawned at least two hit singles, "Rock the Boat" and "We Need a Resolution." Other hot tracks include "Read Between the Lines" and "U Got Nerve."

Aaliyah is an R&B seductress of the highest order, the undisputed queen of the midtempo
come-on. She works her voodoo on a bed of diamond-precision beats and densely
sculptured grooves: Starting with her R. Kelly-produced debut album, 1994's Age Ain't
Nothing but a Number, and continuing through 1996's One in a Million, which began her
fruitful association with Timbaland and Missy Elliott, her impact on contemporary... More >

A slave to her beats, but a proud slave ("We Need a Resolution," "U Got Nerve") (Grade - ***)