Let's play fair. As soon as the name of the African-American singer Aaliyah, eternal princess of r'n'b, resonates, emotion is at its height more than twenty years after her death. Also, the fact that Mattel unveils a Barbie doll in her likeness, one day after what would have been her 46th birthday – she was born in Brooklyn on January 16, 1979 – does not leave us unmoved. We first salute the spotlight, amply deserved and like others before her (Mariah Carey was entitled to it during the Christmas holidays), of the one who shook up the codes of r'n 'b in the 90s, a prodigiously prolific decade for this musical style.
Beyond the homage, the doll especially displays Aaliyah's style, meticulously reproduced, in the video clip of One In A Million, eponymous track from his second album released in 1996 and double platinum in the United States. A style that marks a certain break. Far from the streetwear signature that has characterized her until now, here she is dressed all in black and leather. Short sleeveless vest, crop-top, tight pants, sunglasses and biker boots… In this clip, Baby Girl (her nickname), then aged 17, appears sexy, mature and surfs the plowed field of possibilities by the two figures with whom she has recently surrounded herself, in this case the producer Timbaland and the rapper Missy Elliott. The Aaliyah-Timbo-Missy combo was exciting
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