Not bad gurl:

She imitates Keys really well.

Why would insult Melanie this way?

Melanie's her OWN artist.

She reminds more of Toni Braxton

NO. I don't like Alicia one bit and I am not crazy about Melanie-due to VH1 Soul playing that damn video of hers, "It Kills Me" 24/7-but they are different artists. For one thing, Melanie has yet to land a married man.

I like Melanie Fiona, but I feel like her music can be kind of blah and generic. When I saw her perform live before the first album came out, I was excited because I thought she was really going to ride that '60's sound trend', but most of her songs sound like any other track.

Hell no. Those angry, bitchy lyrics are closer to Mary J. than Alicia. She has a very good voice but her songs all seem to be pissed-off and on some drama queen bullshit or princess of the pity party. I guess that's what flies these days with all of the immature, childish writing going on in R&B. Its like people regressed to their teen years. Is everyone getting high schoolers to write their songs these days or what? What happened to BALANCE?

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BlaqueKnight said:

Hell no. Those angry, bitchy lyrics are closer to Mary J. than Alicia. She has a very good voice but her songs all seem to be pissed-off and on some drama queen bullshit or princess of the pity party. I guess that's what flies these days with all of the immature, childish writing going on in R&B. Its like people regressed to their teen years. Is everyone getting high schoolers to write their songs these days or what? What happened to BALANCE?

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It's definitely Mary J.-esque in some way.

BlaqueKnight said:

Hell no. Those angry, bitchy lyrics are closer to Mary J. than Alicia. She has a very good voice but her songs all seem to be pissed-off and on some drama queen bullshit or princess of the pity party. I guess that's what flies these days with all of the immature, childish writing going on in R&B. Its like people regressed to their teen years. Is everyone getting high schoolers to write their songs these days or what? What happened to BALANCE?

[Edited 3/22/11 16:13pm]

Well, there are two things going on. One, a lot of high school students aren't getting proper music education, so their lyrical skills are suspect, and two, a lot of young people today are extending their adolescent years well into their 20's. A lot of them don't seriously claim their adulthood until at least age 25, and some of them don't until they are 30. And yes, there seem to be a lot of angry/pity party lyrics going around. It's like they don't realize being in a serious relationship involves a lot of compromise; not flowers, rainbows, and unicorns.