Midnight Star is one of my favorite 80s groups so Usher and Monica had huge shoes to fill. Wasn’t this song on an episode of Sister, Sister? Lol.Īgree once again, playa. This song is very alluring and even though this is a cover, they NAIL this like it was their own. What’s the best Monica duet not named “The Boy is Mine?” In her very first video, she set the tone for her entire career.
I don’t think anything beats the gritty, black and white visuals for “Don’t Take It Personal.” While her contemporary Brandy had the glossy, pop star, America’s Sweetheart thing going at the time, Mo had that down-to-earth street appeal that really resonated with girls from my hood.
I have revisited the video many times since then i still think that this whole video was a great video even though the single flopped. I was very young when this came out but i recall being fascinated by that long dress she was wearing that covered the entire ground. Let’s talk visual experiences or whatever y’all call them these days: What’s Monica’s best video? “With You” is one of Monica’s greatest records, POINT BLANK. Yep, I didn’t have to hesitate on this one either. And which album cut should have been a single? Shout out to “All Eyes on Me,” from her shelved 2002 album as well, I always liked that one. And speaking of good parings, Mo linking with Lil Wayne for “Just Right for Me” worked out splendidly, producing her best single of the modern era. Man I LOVED “Ain’t Nobody” and I thought Monica and Treach were such a random but awesome paring, like letting the computer randomly select your characters on the Marvel vs Capcom games. This song just makes you wanna rock and groove. They released this as a Double-A side single with “Why I Love You So Much” which is why i think this song gets lost in the Monica catalogue. What’s your pick for most underrate single? A huge disappointment all the way around. It’s a so-so midtempo ballad without the spark or chemistry of Brandy and Monica’s previous pairing.
With expectations SO high, this one was doomed to crash land. Now to be fair, this was never stated to be a direct sequel to Brandy and Monica’s celebrated “The Boy Is Mine,” but that didn’t stop fans from running away with the idea that we were getting that magic again. Wanna know why I’m so against sequel albums and continuations of songs that are decades old? Well, listen to this one. I did not like this track and I tried to like it as much as I could but i felt that it was very lackluster compared to the original lead single she had in place (the Biggie sampled “Anything To Find You”) which should have been pushed more and stayed as the lead single. I know the safe pick is “The Boy is Mine” but I gotta go with “So Gone,” one of the best songs of that era of R&B. “So Gone” might not be Monica’s greatest vocal showcase (but don’t sleep, she makes sure to remind you the vocals are still potent throughout) but it’s everything that makes her great. Shoutout to Diane Warren for writing this ballad. I was born in the early 1990s and I had Space Jam on VHS and I remember this song being my favorite out of all the Space Jam tracks. To me this song is timeless and I’m probably being biased for this choice. Whether it’s more traditional cuts like Curtis Mayfield-sampled “A Dozen Roses” or the more, ahem, feisty cuts – “Sideline Ho,” “Why Her,” “Gotta Move On” (Mo was really going through some things), Makings of Me is a really fun album and not at all the Ciara clone skeptics expected after the first single. Like you, I wasn’t a big fan of “Everytime tha Beat Drop” but that song definitely is an anomaly and doesn’t represent what the album is all about.