View Full Version : Its been a year....
vanders
25 Aug 2002, 19:49
.......Since the passing of Aaliyah, christ its gone quick. :(
http://www.boomspeed.com/john2/liyah522.jpg
The Hitman
25 Aug 2002, 19:57
Meh. A true case of overrated in death.
I knew Aaliyah as the chick who did a song for the soundtrack of that Jet Li movie. That's all. Then she dies and she has a best of in the charts, and it stays there for ages. All these songs come out and become posthumous hits.
The Hitman
vanders
25 Aug 2002, 20:01
Hitter, just because you had never heard much of her, doesnt mean that she wasnt well known before she died. :rolleyes:
The Hitman
25 Aug 2002, 20:16
I ask you this. Did you own any albums or singles of hers before she died? Or did you buy any albums or singles of hers posthumously?
Everyone knows that death sells. Elvis has sold more since he died. Ditto Nirvana and Jeff Buckley. It's just they sold more and had more talent, and weren't known for just one song and a film clip with Jet Li.
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vanders
25 Aug 2002, 20:21
Yes i did infact, i had the single of 'Try Again', no album though as im not really an album person, which you would notice if you saw my music collection, most albums i own have been given to me as presents
Eagle_Fan
25 Aug 2002, 20:24
Hitter's right. As sad as it is that she died, her popularity & success has really only emerged in he last year. She wasn't well known here, and to make out that she was is really quite disrespectful imho.
The Hitman
25 Aug 2002, 20:24
Thus proves my theory. No one gave a sh*t before she died except for that song which had Jet Li in the film clip.
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vanders
25 Aug 2002, 20:29
i assure you people did give a sh|t before she died, the media attention given to her music just sky rocketed after she died.
Originally posted by The Hitman
I knew Aaliyah as the chick who did a song for the soundtrack of that Jet Li movie.
I thought she was also the chick in the movie? Or am I just getting confused. Again.
vanders
25 Aug 2002, 21:06
Originally posted by Nic
I thought she was also the chick in the movie? Or am I just getting confused. Again.
No she was in the movie, Romeo Must Die
Originally posted by vanders
.......Since the passing of Aaliyah, christ its gone quick. :(
Yes. Time does 'fly' by.
clucas91
25 Aug 2002, 21:38
Originally posted by M29
Yes. Time does 'fly' by.
Cheap. :D
I am with Hitman also, I could not care less about Aaliyah, before or after death. People always sell album's and win awards etc. after death, it's a fact. I never cared about Aaliyah nor did I care when she died.
People that were more valuable than her die everyday.
I agree with Hitter on this one also. Not showing disrespect to her death or anything but she was just one of a thousand young R&B acts that go through the states every year. Some make it others dont, she may have been a one hit wonder, but because she died, we will never know. She was apparently going to be the next big thing for female R&B but i dont believe in the next big thing in R&B as there are too many of them.
About a month ago it was JaRule who was the hottest thing in the world with like 4 songs in the charts with J-Lo in his songs and other stars....this month it is Nelly. It's an ongoing viscious cycle which makes me appreciate guys like Dre, Snoop, Brian McKnight, Seal etc etc who are gonna still be here when everybody else's career is over.
The Hitman
26 Aug 2002, 07:00
Originally posted by jod23
...Seal etc etc who are gonna still be here when everybody else's career is over.
Seal! :D :D :D I still remember that song! HAHAHA! Isn't Montel Jordon gonna be looked upon as one of RnB's greats? ;)
"This is how we do it..."
The Hitman
Macca19
26 Aug 2002, 15:54
Originally posted by The Hitman
Meh. A true case of overrated in death.
Could well say teh same about Nirvana too ya know!
Originally posted by vanders
No she was in the movie, Romeo Must Die
That is the movie I meant.:)
BomberGal
26 Aug 2002, 18:09
Yikes, this is the biggest shock I got all day! :eek:
travis2327
26 Aug 2002, 20:01
Could well say the same about Nirvana too ya know!
r u serious Macca? Cobain and Nirvana had a worldwide influence on music....u can hardly say Aaliyah had any real impact.
she was also in that movie Queen Of The Damned, not that that was a movie worth remembering
Originally posted by travis2327
she was also in that movie Queen Of The Damned, not that that was a movie worth remembering
I actually went to the premiere of that :rolleyes:
Nirvana had a huge impact before Kurt's death & most Nirvana fans (me included!) we more turned off by his suicide than anything else.
However there will always be those who glorify death, look at Jim Morrison & Jimi Hendrix for starters, death has probably boosted their record sales.
Death sells.
Jeff Buckley had somewhat of a cult following before his death, I don't recall any of his albums or singles troubling the charts in Australia. The bloke does a Harold Holt and by forgetting his floaties, improves his status as a "musical genius" and his CD sales by about four million percent.
Don't get me wrong on his music... I personally don't listen to it, but that's not the point... I think his death was to be the most obvious indicator that death is and always has been a great career move for any artist.
Today is 12 years since Stevie Ray Vaughan made the fatal choice of boarding a helicopter instead of making the two hour drive back to his Chicago hotel.
SRV only had a short career of 7 years before his death, but in that time he managed to be acknowledged by some as the greatest guitarist of all time. And also managed to conquer a severe substance abuse problem.
Death may sell, but SRV had reached star status long before his death.
I was first introduced to the music of SRV in 1985 at the tender age of 12, courtesy of my uncle who was already a big fan. And that same uncle informed me of his death just two weeks before my 18th birthday. I can remember both events as vividly and with verbatim like it was just yesterday.
In the past 17 years Stevie Ray Vaughan, to me, has been and always will be the best of the best. No one comes close.
Perhaps I should have started a new thread for this because talking about him in a thread about Aaliyah is akin to going from the ridiculous to the sublime.
TheMase
27 Aug 2002, 13:01
I cant say I have ever heard of her
Mooster7
27 Aug 2002, 13:06
I was in a hotel in Kentucky in the middle of the night, bored out of my skull, and watched a documentary on Aliyah. I had never heard of her. Wasn't going to buy any of her stuff, because I don't care for that sort of music. She was easy to look at, there wasn't anything on the History Channel, so I had a beer and watched the doc. A week later, she was dead. If it hadn't been for me surfing Mtv at 4:00 in the morning, I wouldn't have known she existed. After her airplane spilled, she was all over the media. I'll support Hitman's position.
lioness
27 Aug 2002, 22:47
Originally posted by TheMase
I cant say I have ever heard of her
Same. :confused: