Still, the sassy song came off respectful enough that it didn’t offend her elders.
Vocally, she had an aggressively confident tone that made listeners her age see themselves as authoritative figures in the world. It masterfully used an unspoken latchkey kid relation to add mature depth to her unique tale of young adulthood. Miss Thang applied the palpable sense of intergenerational wisdom and experience that Monica absorbed from her lineage and Atlanta heritage.įor instance, the album opened with the assertive title track that explicitly defined her innate tough-girl persona and featured a funky instrumental that had an affinity for Blaxploitation films. In fact, it was the respected title of the 14-year-old’s breakthrough debut album an introduction that she made into the high society of music in the summer of 1995.Īs the R&B scene evolved from its traditional soul nature in the early 1990s, it was fresh, hip, and blazed a trail for new tenants of the genre to be their most authentic selves.īy the time Monica released her first album, a couple of other young, gifted and Black female acts had shaken up the airwaves and spawned phenomenal success for their sonically diverse sounds: A pristine new jack swing swag and a good girl-next-door narrative.įor Dallas Austin, who served as executive producer on Miss Thang, mapping out a definitive album concept for the burgeoning singer under those conditions had to be a concern at some point.Īustin and Monica ultimately opted to pursue a logical progression lyrically and thematically from the teen idols that preceded her debut. Long before Monica earned the beloved alias Mo, she was simply Miss Thang.
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