Anyone that knows me knows that I love Alicia(real life/online or whatever) but I have a few things that have been on my chest for years.
Alicia had arguably the biggest RNB debut...pretty much ever and she completely dominated the scene. Her first era went perfectly; the right singles, the best promo, proper styling, and a good album. It could have been pushed more WW but her talent is what really shined here.
With the DOAK Alicia gave us incredible music, not really smash singles but CLASSIC songs,
but the promotion was pitiful and her looks were vile.
As I Am good god in the beginning alicia delivered. She released the second biggest radio hit ever at the time(possibly second to Irreplaceable, but who cares),
promoted her ass off and looked beautiful and not even a little like a damn dike for the first time in her ****ing life. Not to mention the album DELIVERED songs, many singles that could smash and make her a legend. After No One this stupid bitch ****ed it up again. You release No One, the biggest smash of your career, and then you just disregard Pop radio and throw the scraps at the
pitiful urban audience that has never and WILL never buy albums. SHE DID NOT RELEASE ANOTHER SONG TO POP RADIO. THIS ALBUM HAD AT LEAST 4 SONGS THAT COULD HAVE SMASHED POP, DEFINITELY AFTER NO ONE BROKE RECORDS. She just put her stank ass troll face on and sent out urban smash after urban smash and let No One build recurrent ****ing play. The album was still humongous but IMAGINE how big it would have been if she released, I don't know Wreckless Love, Go Ahead, Lesson Learned, **** even Superwoman could have been a cross-over smash but no this dike released nothing else period.
After this the huge smash ESOM came out and I was like yes Alicia, get some sense, use that talent and get us a smash with TEOK and then came Doesn't Mean Anything released to deafening silence on... well all formats. She promotes this filthy flop like it was a ****ing hit for
2 months before finally giving us the little train that SHOULD, TSWABH. Alicia didn't promote this song or the album enough, guess her head was too far up a married mans ass to focus on her career! After TSWABH put up the good fight and undeservedly becomes the most moderate of hits she sits on her fat ass and
releases nothing to radio for SIX MOTHER****ING MONTHS. SIX MOTHER****ING This album is another full of songs that could have been singles but never got to blossom because of this dumb hoe. When she FINALLY releases Unthinkable the song demolishes urban and has so much crossover appeal but she never sends it to contemporary radio. Too busy sucking that pigeons dick probably. It still becomes the biggest of urban hits and further solidifies her status as the figurehead of the relatively useless, pirating, low-income urban community.
After this I gave up.
I hung up my damn fedora and just jump on the Rihanna train because this snaggle-tooth bitch done wronged me for the LAST time.
Then comes GOF. Say what you want about that song but it is a smash. It had classic written all over it. It sounds like a song that really defines alicia as an artist yet really doesn't sound like a rehash of something she'd ever done. The song does it's job and becomes one of the biggest RNB songs ever and does pretty well everywhere. The album does relatively well, I don't know how; I thought America was as tired of seeing her doing that same god damn grounded pterodactyl pose at every mother ****ing red carpet, wearing the same mother****ing crop top and high-waisted skirt combo to every god damn scene as I was so relative to that she did pretty damn good. Honestly it is a really solid album with beautiful music but it only has 3-4 standouts. I thought perhaps this relative flopping would put a fire in her belly, maybe she would release another single to pop(When It's All Over) and milk this man-stealing matron thing that she had going on. That single never came.
She released Brand New Me to silence and it flopped so ****ing hard(it's a beautiful song but god damn Alicia no one cares). Then she released the sure-fire urban smash Fire We Make that did pitifully,
relative to the fact that her and Maxwell were arguably the biggest urban hit makers alive at one point. She goes on a tour that sold-out
nowhere and then she schedules a performance on AI and I'm like this is it! Queen is about to turn up and show out. Oh show up she did and she killed that song. It was the wrong ****ing song though. It also was actually sent to pop radio.... 3 months after the ****ing performance. Now she's busy releasing apps that no one gives a **** about and claiming she's working out but no one can tell. I know she's probably happy now but FACK I'm not.
Alicia has all the makings of a legend and she very well may eventually become one anyway but it's like she can she do nothing right?
She needs to get her head out of the clouds and record/release a smash.
She needs to stop releasing these damn apps that only urban blogs care about and get with a vocal coach and train so she can stop the strain.
She needs to do whatever it takes to solidify her status as a legend because let me tell you something she is more talented than everyone of your faves.
Lastly, she needs get with the times because no one cares about/buys those ugly ass Adidas wedges from
Nordstrom. NO ONE. They are available in every size except for Alicia's which leads me to believe Alicia was the only one to buy them.
Rant/over
