Ashanti was cool, but I remember the bandwagon hate for her. Everybody liked her songs, but there was this period of "She can't sing." It was so hilarious to me.
And when Chapter II replaced Dangerously in Love on the Billboard 200, and sold more for two weeks, then it went all downhill from there.
I remember when "Foolish" came out and was the biggest song (in the US) for like 10 weeks. That whole Murder INC rule thing was a bit of an interesting period in music.
Her first album actually debuted with 500K. R&B artists (the black ones at least) are lucky to see a tenth of that during their first week nowadays.
Ashanti was cool, but I remember the bandwagon hate for her. Everybody liked her songs, but there was this period of "She can't sing." It was so hilarious to me.
And when Chapter II replaced Dangerously in Love on the Billboard 200, and sold more for two weeks, then it went all downhill from there.
the "She can't sing" peaked with Soul Train and the WWE Wrestlemania performance