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Resolved: Aaliyah’s final album 25 years on

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Resolved: Aaliyah’s final album 25 years on
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Everything changed in 2001, not just in geopolitics but in culture as well, and Aaliyah's third and final album exemplified that more than most, says Toby Manning
Autumn 2001 was where the 21st century really began. It wasn’t just that 9/11 changed everything politically, but that a newly diverse, urbanised pop changed everything culturally. Ending the era of both avant R&B and anaemic teenpop, R&B producers effectively conducted a merger, toning down their weirdness to endow pop acts with stree

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