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Where my girls at?
*silence*
I'm a real 90's girls. I grew up in the 90's listening to the greatest female artists of that musical era. Female voices that are the soundtrack to my teenage years. It was when Brandy, Monica and Aaliyah where the upcoming hot voices on the scene, where Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, TLC and SWV rocked the mike, and when Toni Braxton, Erykah Badu, En Vogue, Blu Cantrell and Jade made soul super sexy again.
Not to forget the queens, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. These are the starlets that paved the way, allowing for the Beyonce/Alicia Keys/Rihannas to become superstars today.
Their music was soulful, heartfelt and real, connected to themes that everyone went through, relationships and the world felt simpler and the music was so good- so recognizable that I still rock out to those tracks when I'm feeling nostalgic. I remember playing Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love” or SWV’s “I’m So Into You” or Jade's "Don't Walk Away" on my walkman til the batteries ran out.
But it seem like those legacies got lost along the way - born in a golden time, that R&B music no longer sparkles as it did back then. It's seems that nowadays R&B is on life support, oversaturated and poorly imitated. I feel as I was lucky to have enjoyed it in it's hayday. Black female American artists hardly make soulful music anymore.
Now these stars, once powerful and rich are brought down to their knees, tarnished by lawsuits, bankruptcy, substance abuse, jail stints and tragic deaths.
R&B singer Angie Stone, who made her solo debut in the late ’90s, was arrested for allegedly knocking her 30-year-old daughter’s teeth. A week before that, Charmayne Maxwell of ’90s R&B group Brownstone was found bleeding profusely from a cut to her neck (from a broken wine glass) and died.
Toni Braxton files for bankruptcy (for the second time) and reveals she had an abortion and was suicidal. Lauryn Hill goes to jail for tax evasion. Best-Selling Girl Group of all-time, TLC, have to crowd funds their final album. And the most tragic in recent years (since Left-Eye an Aaliyah's fatal accidents), Whitney Houston was found dead in her bathtub.
If they’re lucky, they’ll get cast in a reality show, like TV One’s R&B Divas (Angie Stone did). And if they’re really lucky, they’ll be remembered with a Lifetime or VH1 biopic. Are they not cursed?
The only two I can think that kind of made it is Queen Latifah who crossed over to acting and Mary J. Blige, but not without years of battling substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, and relationship woes, which she chronicled in her 13 albums to date.
In retrospect, their stories sound just like a really good but sad R&B song.
Where my girls at?
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