JANFAN4L said:

it was pop-fluff.....but then i guess Britney and NSync should be proud of their work too, ehh?

sorry, IMHO she took a step back with her career by doing Inner Child....Steve McClain was setting her on the patch to be a serious artist in the vain of Janet..Discovery is mnpls funk at its best with mature and soulful slow tempo songs....

she dropped all that for sugary sweet and quick success..and she got it...

and a quick career to go with it....

sosgemini said:

I feel that she kept the momentum going with Inner Child. ILYS and Silent Prayer was great stuff. Inner Child did sound like a lot of the stuff on the radio back then. For whatever reason, she just didn't try as hard to be a name in the industry so she faded into the background after Inner Child. Much like Tracie Spencer. Tracie and Shanice didn't try as hard to leave an impact in the '90s like Brandy and Monica did.

JANFAN4L said:

she didnt try? her follow-up album flopped and she was dropped by her label....she is still trying to come-back if i remember correctly....the last time i did net search on her she was trying to get label support for a new album..or get her label to support the album she had created..or something like that..

i used to be a huge shanice fan...huge after Discovery...and appreciated I Love Your Smile but was dissapointed the entire album was in that bubblegum pop-vain...

with her voice and dance moves she could have compeated with Janet & Mariah combined..but your right to mention tracy spencer..cause thats who she opted to compete with...

and the rest is history...as in her career is now history.

sosgemini said:

Currently, she has an album out an indie label called "Every Woman Dreams." She's pretty much forgotten on the pop map. R&B heads still remember her for who she was, but she's not gonna hit in this Ciara/Ashanti climate. Everyone's moved on.

A future in gospel plays perhaps? Knock on Tyler Perry's door.

JANFAN4L said:

hmmm....i HATE TYLER PERRY!!!

sosgemini said:

Oooh*! New can of worms.

It's about time this gets moved to the right forum

sosgemini said:

he worked hard to get to where he's at right now though....you gotta give him that. But yeah I'm not too crazy about his plays either.

I do like this

Cheesy but very, very catchy.

And I forgot about her "I really do!" bit at ther end.

sosgemini said:

I use to love No 1/2 Steppin. I've heard a couple of tracks from the new album and their nice. She said her label didn't know what to do with her last effort Shanice which I thought was pretty solid. In a recent interivew she said I Love your Smile was really about her because people said she was always smiling. I always liked Shanice.
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AnckSuNamun said:

i just wish he would take a writing lesson....learn his craft...he can use the same themes..he can tell the same stories and not have them be artistically soo elementary...

i wonder if he even understands this point...

sosgemini said:

yeah, I swear I can write some of his plays on a boring night. My roommate from last semester had a couple of the Madea dvds and at the time I had never seen any of his stuff. So, I watched them and I just didn't see why they were so hilarious. To each his own, I guess. These plays just get old after a while. I do kinda wanna see this new one out called Girl He Aint Worth It The Manhattens are gonna be in it. I don't think Tyler has anything to do with this one though.

thesexofit said:

Nowadays, she's known more as being the wife of actor Flex from 'One on One' and having matching his/her automobiles. She's got talent up the wazoo and is still cute as hell.

One of my favorite cuts is 'Bet She's Got A Boyfriend' off the Discovery album. 'No half-Steppin' is cool, too.

AnckSuNamun said:

I saw the much-bootlegged "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" VHS tape back in school. It was predictable, but the draw was Madea. She was funny. I did laugh out loud at the gun antics.

JesseDezz said:

boyfriend...boyfriend...that she aint telling you about...

Well, the girl really has to do some smilin now, now that she works at McDonalds.

"You wanna supersize that, honey? Do you recogzize me, no?"

JANFAN4L said:

I have seen his plays through new DVD releases and I was really impressed by the first one I saw..."I Can Do Bad All By Myself"..then came "Meada's Class Reunion" which featured little of Meada and had nothing to do with her class reunion. And then I saw "Meada's Family Reunion"...boring as hell! Everything was beyond predictable and the laughther and heart was missing! I made the mistake of buying that one sight unseen along with "Diary..." the movie, which I liked quite a bit. He's pretty talented but he obivously knows Meada is what gets asses in the seats and I think to an extent, he doens't like the fact. Ok, way off topic!