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[emma🇬🇭💋 @emma_tieson]

the flag: the face:

[ERIC LAMONT @BlameEricLamont]

Celebrating Aaliyah’s final album, self titled: AALIYAH aka THE RED ALBUM, will be bittersweet for all time.

She was on such a critical and commercial high. Two multiplatinum albums. A platinum soundtrack. A hit movie. Filming her next two movies. Signed on for several new film projects. She was having her moment. This was her first studio album in FIVE years.

She relaunched on the heels of Romeo Must Die, an era that saw her nab a hit movie and several hit singles, including the first song to ever go #1 off airplay alone: TRY AGAIN.

Led by “We Need A Resolution”, this album felt like a personal page pulled from her diary. While not a writer, Aaliyah had a team of her own writers to custom build songs for her. She wasn’t just handed material. WNAR didn’t set the charts on fire like her previous hits, but it still reset the culture visually and sonically. It hadn’t been done before.

“More Than A Woman” was next in line until “Rock The Boat” produced by Eric Seats and Rapture, written by Static, started to become the standout on radio.

Not only did AALIYAH become a blueprint for futuristic R&B/Pop/Urban Pop, it showed you who Aaliyah was as a grown ass woman.

I often think of what a world tour would have been like and a full rollout for the era.

We know how the story ends.

Aaliyah was truly just beginning and that’s why so many of us to this day still feel cheated. But, she left behind a timeless, classic, masterpiece which set the tone for many acts that followed the next 25 years.

Fun Facts:

“I Care 4 U” was originally written for her second album by @MissyElliott but the album was mastered. IC4U was saved another 5 years for self titled.

WNAR was originally titled “Sposed To Change”

Production for the album originally began in 1998 but paused for Aaliyah’s film career. She resumed in 2000, filming Queen Of The Damned by day, recording at night.

Baby Girl WANTED THIS. Won’t ever be another.

Long Live The Queen Of Urban Pop & The Princess Of R&B.

#Aaliyah25

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

25 years ago today, Aaliyah released ‘Aaliyah.’

[trinity fans kwangya @ih8gaez]

trinity is probably the only islander that had a good summer… 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Dinma Beke @thattinybabe_]

People are in the comments saying why can’t the USA girls do this, mind you they dragged Aniya and Trinity for 3 days after casa for “bullying the boys”. They can never please y’all.

[beguey. @hijabeys]

jen, tierra and parmida didn’t struggle to integrate themselves. y’all have to accept that sol isolated herself.

[dani @kordeilogy]

EXACTLY NORMANI

[a fat ass kelly price @sashasrevengee]

these are children . no point in crying over this i promise you

[emma🇬🇭💋 @emma_tieson]

@loneamorphous like i’m irritated

[AJ @averagehijabi97]

I hate the rewriting of history. The s7 girls were friends. Post-season had fallouts but that doesn’t negate the fact that they were all cool during the season

[bONGO 🌹 @wariocolosseum]

for some reason everyone just unironically acts like this now and its so goddamn insufferable

[zoe @gayrdians]

omg this is so cute 😭😭

[soulaani Doll @makavelidoll]

Why is Aaliyah dead

[𝙈𝗮𝖙𝘁𝔂 @FfsMatty_]

Everytime I see a piece of his legacy sold my heart breaks. It has NO RIGHT being in the hands of private collectors. It MUST be preserved and put on display in a museum dedicated to his art & legacy. This is history!

[ʝąყ ☆ @Clanafiles]

HELP THE COMMENTS IS FRYING ME

[Benny D. Greenheart @BennyGreenheart]

A hit in my black ass household 😂

[big ceo @korysverse]

tyla performing she did it again omfg the choreo TOOO CUNT

[Brandon 🇧🇸 @brandomandox]

Mind you this is him watching his own actions 😭😭😭