Resolved: Aaliyah’s final album 25 years on

Everything changed in 2001, not just in geopolitics but in culture as well, and Aaliyah's third and final album exemplified that more than most, says Toby Manning Autumn 2001 was where the 21st century really began. It wasn’t just that 9/11 changed everything politically, but that a newly diverse, urbanised pop changed everything culturally. Ending the era of both avant R&B and anaemic teenpop, R&B producers effectively conducted a merger, toning down their weirdness to endow pop acts with street cool, tech smarts …and rap guest-spots. This race, gender and genre-dissolving approach would dominate mainstream pop even after the ‘anti-woke’ diversity backlash began elsewhere. 21-year-old Aaliyah’s third, self-titled album in summer 2001 was the dividing line, alongside collaborator Missy Elliott’s contemporaneous... The post Resolved: Aaliyah’s final album 25 years on appeared first on The Quietus .

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