Just when you thought album listening parties couldn’t get more awkward, along comes this blind item from AOL’s Black Voices blog:
I hear that a listening party for a sexy R&B starlet’s forthcoming album became a pity party after media guests began sharing with the label staff “how bad they thought the music was.” A source tells me that by the time the last song was played, journalists had the same sentiment: “The album sucks!” Could that be the delay in its release?
Our money’s on a certain hand-bereft singer, but there’s been no shortage of R & B singers with long album delays lately, so we’ll throw open the voting:
The BV Buzz With Jawn Murray [AOL Black Voices via CONCRETELOOP]






















IT IS NOT AMERIE. TAKE IT BACK, IDOLATOR.
Totally Mya, the album being pushed back a month or so before release gives it away IMO.
I hope it’s not Kelly Rowland. Her single with Eve is my pick for summer song of ’07.
You mean, as opposed to the fucking brilliant records these three broads have put out before. Oh, I see.
man, king hater, you are indeed the king of haters.
@Murgatroid: Don’t worry, no one else knows that.
I don’t find Mya sexy. “My ass is like, whoa!” Um, what ass?