One in a Million

Artist: Aaliyah
Label: Virgin Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette
EAN: 7243810753404
ASIN: B00005Y7H6

Release Date: 2001-07-31

One in a Million

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She has already jammed with Gladys Knight in Las Vegas, eloped with influential R&B mogul R. Kelly, and scored two platinum albums--and she's just barely graduated from high school. No, she is not your average teenager, nor is she just another pretty soul singer. On One in a Million, Aaliyah expands on the smooth grooves of her massively successful debut album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, and shows that all the life experiences have not gone to waste. The production and songwriting talents of Tim 'Timbaland' Mosley and rapper Missy Elliot give the songs on One In A Million a seductive edge with laidback grooves and cool hip-hop licks; but what really makes this album rise above is the full-grown singer at the controls. On the title track, a magical ballad, Aaliyah casts a cool spell with layered voices and a smoky delivery. With the assistance of Slick Rick, she turns Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" into a funky hip-hop jam for the end of the millennium. While with "4 Page Letter," one of the album's high points, she intricately details the end of love affair. Artists twice her age could only hope to create a work of such clarity and resonance. --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews:

An Album That Defines An Era.......2007-03-30

The year was 1996, Urban R&B and Hip Hop had really gone from being in the backround with Gangsta Rap and New Jack Swing to the top of the mainstream charts with a more commercial sound that appealed for a broader audience. Blackstreet, Mary J Blige, Fugees, R. Kelly and Puff Daddy. Aaliyah was 17 at the time and almost about to graduate from highschool. She already had one album in her bag "Age Ain't Nothing But A Number" produced and written by R. Kelly that she also ended up marrying, but since she was underage the marraige was shortly annuled and they both went seperate ways. On Aaliyah's second album titled "One In A Million" she teamed up with a bunch of diffrent producers, which was quite rare at the time. Jermaine Dupri, Rodney Jerkins and the completely unknown producer Timothy Mosley, better known as Timbaland. Mosley had previously worked with Missy Elliott's band "Sista" but with limited resources and not much success. He and Missy (who hadn't released her debut album yet) teamed up together and wrote/produced 7 of the songs of Aaliyah's second album. The result would be revolutionary and differ from anything that was on the radio at the time. Timbaland created a unique sound that would take R&B closer to mainstream with "stuttering bass-heavy bounce beats offset resounding high-end synth stabs" and often making cameos on his productions but no sampling, everything was created by himself. All this was known simply as the "Timbaland Sound" and 10 years later he would not only be a super-producer but the greatest procucer of his generation. Aaliyah had also matured, at only 17 she sound much older and experienced and she's was now a complete singer that can stand on her own feet and the overall result is a more satisfying effort then her debut. It's also fulpacked with hits, apart from the wonderful title track produced by Timbaland, he also produced the hits "Hot Like Fire", "If Your Girl Only Knew" and "4 Page Letter". A Diane Warren penned ballad called "The One I Gave My Heart To" reached top 10 on the charts. Other then that, we'll also find some fine remakes, like Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" with old skool rapper Slick Rick and Isley Brothers "Choosey Lover", later used by R.Kelly and Nas for a remix for "Street Dreams" and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkin's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" and Dupri's "I Gotcha Back". Intro and Outro included you get 17 songs of class and depth, and that is more then anyone could ask for, especially from someone so young. "One in A Million" is equally good as her third eponymous album and should end up in any music fan's collection. Sadly Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001 and the music world lost one of the most talented, beautiful and charismatic singers and I often wonder what she would have amount to in the future, it really looked so bright for her. Looking back 10 years in time I can clearly say that this album was something above the ordinary. R&B came closer to mainstream music, production was starting to have a bigger impact in music and Aaliyah made the best R&B album of the year together with Ginuwine's "The Bachelor" that was produced by...You know who.

Rest in peace Aaliyah.

They Suck!!!.......2007-01-12

I can't give a positive review about this product, because I never received it. They not only sent it to the wrong address even after I emailed them and told them about it, I couldn't get a refund either. I didn't receive it on time for Christmas, and to make matters worse, I have to find this CD elsewhere because I NEVER RECEIVED IT AND COULDN'T GET A REFUND!!!!

aaliyah best album .......2006-10-27

i would give this cd 4 star not five because when this i remeber this cd drop in the 90,s it,s aaliyah best album up to date i think this cd brought aaliyah to the point where some people would know her for time she open for 112 when this cd come back in 94 she for open gloria estefan she wasn,t big as gloria she,s was liked sade i disagge she wasn,t the next donna summer when she was lived she compare to sade people said she was the street verison of sade not a household name but cd has good tracks on. aaliyah was frist nomanated for awards when came out i got a change to see tim and late missy i already know that brandy was friend of the late aaliyah . this album shows a lot grow from her frist to this one but is also sad that aaliyah was around for seven years and nobody give her respect that she wanted i followed aaliyah from day one when she tour with brandy until she died their are very few artists that i know from the beinging besides mya and jo jo i knew her work . people know brandy and moncia even christnia but if you were to ask who she only a minortiy could tell because she come frist in the list of teen singers she was the most underrated singer of the ninetys .

aaliyah best album .......2006-10-27

Best RnB Album Of The 90's.......2006-09-01

Alot of cats say R. Kelly is the RnB artist of the 90's but really its Aaliyah. She is to RnB what Donna Summer was to Disco, a timeless beauty whose tracks always bring you back to the good times in your life.

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