Revisiting the Greatness of Brandy's Afrodisiac
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- It's been 20 years since the release of Brandy's Afrodisiac. In the past two decades, the album has positioned itself as an influential work in the current sound of R&B. With producers like Timbaland, Kanye West and Organized Noize, plus the Vocal Bible herself, Afrodisiac is Brandy's most critically acclaimed to date. In this video, I will go through some of the stories behind the album's development and unboxing CDs and vinyl from the era.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Brandy's influence
00:38 Intro
02:06 Early sessions
03:09 The first single
03:35 Album release and mystery unreleased tracks
04:06 Snippet sampler
04:35 Come As U Are (Early Version) - snippet
04:58 The second single
06:18 CDs from the era
07:27 Afrodisiac 2LP vinyl
07:55 Turn It Up
08:09 Talk About Our Love
08:36 Who Is She 2 U
09:04 Afrodisiac
09:17 Top 5 songs
09:41 Outro
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Lyrically, her best work. The songwriting on Afrodisiac is TOP tier
This is actually my favorite Brandy album and I feel like it's so underrated.
agreed! FM and NSN take all the credit but this one right here deserves the praise just as much!
So true. I feel like all of her albums, since she was exposed, have been grossly underrated. I didn’t like that she lied to us but it certainly wasn’t an unforgivable thing. Beyoncé gets CAUGHT in her lies and is always being accused of stealing and other awful things but she has never been held accountable or had to suffer from any of the bad behavior she’s displayed, including the way she treated her grp mates. That being said, I think it’s possible, that Brandys career was sabotaged. Along with Aaliyah, Mariah Carey, Ashanti, and Mya, for starters.
@@90sReign what does Beyonce have anything to do with this? 💀
@@ToyotaKudoFan Oh, it wasn’t clear? Beyoncé has been caught LYING, pretending to be more talented than she actually is, has stolen from lesser known but more artistic/talented ppl and no one has held her accountable for any of it yet the public was so “outraged” at a young woman, who hv felt the pressure to lie to save her career bc she knows how unfair the world is to women who don’t live up to society’s standards? Hmm, that doesn’t track for me. I don’t believe most ppl cared. Ppl will put good music over values and character all day. I just dnt believe that was the REAL halt in Brandys career. All of Beyonces competition mysteriously “fell off”….or died. Brandy, Aaliyah, Mya, Ashanti, hell even Ciara-without Beyonces machine behind her, she couldnt see ANY of these artists when it comes to artistry or entertaining an audience without a half million dollar stage production behind her.
I adore Nodding Off and I wish it made the main tracklist. Brandy was so ahead of the game with Afrodisiac.
wow, you have so much cool Afrodisiac stuff. 😍 you forgot to cite Necessary as one of your favourite tracks!
Now you know very well my feelings about Necessary… 🫣😅
One of my favorite singers in the world.
This was amazing! Thank you!
@@martaevialawayne8553 🫶
Omg Why can’t I ever find ppl like this in my real life? 😊❤I love finding content creators who seem like we could been friends back in the day 😂New subbie and great video! I think this is her best album. I never thought the song with Kanye wasn’t that great-mainly, bc I thought his rap was wack af, I felt like Brandy deserved better than that.didnt care for the vid either.
Edit: My most fav songs from this album r “Come As You Are”, “Finally”.
@@90sReign aww thanks!! 🥰❤️ I agree that TAOL was not the best introduction to the album but I still enjoy it!
Beyoncé favorite song from this album is Focus I mean u can tell by the influence 😊
I still play talk about our love ft. ye Kanye west.. her Best CDs with human albums brandy. So excited for her new movie a24 ❤
Love to see your channel receiving so much love, congrats 👏🏾. Afrodisiac ( I also have noticed tons of people saying in recent years that this is their favorite, it wasn’t that way sometime ago 👀 though I’m glad people are finally coming around and seeing it’s greatness) is my personal favorite album from her, it takes me to a time and place, it’s quite nostalgic for me. I lived through this era in real-time, when I listen to it I feel like a pre-teen all over again. To add, Human(it’s truly underrated, the pop sound worked so well with her voice, I loved the unreleased tracks from this era as while) and 2/11 also have a special place in my heart.
@@DajuanH. thanks for the love and for sharing your experience with Brandy’s music 🫶 It is similar for me and I hold a special place with all her album. From the ones you mentioned, I particularly love Human! Right Here is a classic and songs like Shattered Heart and Something’s Missing are amongst my all time Brandy faves. Plus all the leaks from that era: Freedom, Drum Life, Surprise Ending, After The Flood… so many amazing songs! 😍
LOVE Afrodisiac! Brandy looked incredible during that era. It's my third favorite Brandy album, after NSN and FM of course. My top three are the title track, I Tried and Should I Go. I think Talk About Our Love wasn't the best choice as the lead single.
agreed! I love TAOL but there were more representative songs to launch the album
BrandyThenEverybodyElse
Full moon adalah album brandy favoritku....
👏👏👏👏
Who is Normani? I don’t know her…
oh I see… a Swiftie wouldn't know! 😢
@@theunsleever 😂 no one would know 🫶🏼
Anyway back to the one that matters, the vocal bible…This is also one of my fave albums and my top tracks are Should I Go, Come As You Are, I Tried, Finally, Sirens, Like It Was Yesterday, Focus, Turn It Up….
@@Valexito10 *cries in Insomnia feat Brandy* 😅 we have almost the same faves off of Afrodisiac! 🫶