but there’s nothing trite about this ahead-of-its-time 2000 smash. Aaliyah reteamed with Timbaland for the Grammy-nominatedRomeo Must Diesoundtrack single, and while he dipped back into the vocal-sampling tricks of 1998’s “Are You That Somebody?,” this time around, the production...
Neena Rouhani: Aaliyah and I are both from Detroit, so her music was constantly spun on the R&B and hip-hop stations in the city my entire life. The track that gave me chills, even as a five-year-old in the back of my mom’s ‘99 Honda Civic, is “Are You That Somebody?” M...
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. [her advice for aspiring artists) Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
1 R&B song. The next single, remake of the Isley Brothers At Your Best (You Are Love) reached Top 10 on the Billboard charts and was No. 2 at R&B radio.In 1996, Aaliyah scored an enormous hit, Are You That Somebody, from the Dr. 鈥...
A couple of years later, “Are You That Somebody,” a single made for the Dr. Dolittle soundtrack, changed everything: Aaliyah wasn’t just sweet and sly; she revealed herself as endearingly weird and aspirationally cool—over a bizarre drum pattern and the sample of a baby’s coo, at...