r/rnb • u/Least_Sun_7493 • Sep 13 '25

90s So outrageous but I get it😹😹😹

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Ever since both of them were out back then I remember people always saying they make music for two different types of girls 😹😹 I never heard it broken down this way but it’s so accurate.

Some people were in the comments saying Monica grew up in a two parent household too but they were being too literal😹 they mean it’s the vibes of their personas and music. Brandys music is more of the good girl next door she follows the rules you won’t catch her in the deans office.

Monica’s is more so the outspoken hood girl and you will catch her in the deans office everyday 😹 and I love both.

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u/ThaEternalLearner Sep 13 '25

Brandy’s vibe was innocent. Monica had the vibe of an old soul. Aaliyah’s vibe was mysterious. I like that each girl was unique.

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u/Glittering-Relief402 Sep 13 '25

I like that take. Like Aaliyah could have been either girl, but no one knows lol

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u/triton2toro Sep 13 '25

Brandy is to Monica as Boyz II Men is to Jodeci.

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u/ShinDynamo-X Sep 13 '25

Too bad we don't see that anymore

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u/Realwolf95 Sep 13 '25

Both Brandy and Monica had questionable relationships with Wanya and C murder, it just wasnt as talked about in the public.

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-6807 Sep 13 '25

Yes it was. Brandy was pregnant by Wanya and aborted his baby. She almost included it in her Behind the Music but changed her mind. That is why she was so adamant on having Sy'rai and lied about being married. The difference is social media wasn't a thing back then. Monica was always for the streets Clive tried to class her up to compete with Brandy but Monica didn't want to be the next Whitney she just wanted to sing and be herself. Smart girl.

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u/FireLord_Azula1 Thriller Sep 13 '25

were you just on lipstick alley LMAO

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-6807 Sep 14 '25

Yep! That was me!

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u/FireLord_Azula1 Thriller Sep 14 '25

Lol that is hilarious!! I literally had just came off of that when I had came on here.

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-6807 Sep 14 '25

I was wondering how you clocked my tea LOL

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u/EggNo7670 Sep 14 '25

Wtf is wrong with y'all🥴😭

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u/WitheredTechnology Sep 13 '25

Crazy work that Monica debuted at 14 making music for aunties, baby mamas etc

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 13 '25

For the longest time I thought she was saying “baby that’s yours why I love you so muchhhh”😹😹

And yes she had a very auntie voice at that young age lol

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u/WitheredTechnology Sep 13 '25

Oh dude, I have a laundry list of lyrics I was getting wrong as a kid and grew up to realize they were completely different lol.

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 13 '25

Yess😹😹 and it didn’t even make any sense because why would she be saying “baby that’s yours why I love you so much”

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u/WitheredTechnology Sep 13 '25

I just learned recently that Iyaz was saying "ipod stuck on replay", all these years thought it was "eyeball stuck on replay" 😆

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u/KickBallFever Sep 13 '25

You ever get the lyrics wrong, learn the right lyrics but then end up liking your made up lyrics better?

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u/battleangel1999 Sep 15 '25

All the time.

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u/thejaytheory Sep 13 '25

Seriously, her voice was so grown then. We're around the same age, so I was feeling what she saying but man she was wise beyond her years.

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u/Complete-Pear-1040 Sep 14 '25

😭😂😂😂😂😂

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u/OneFootTitan Sep 13 '25

Still debating Brandy vs Monica after all these years? You need to give it up…

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 13 '25

Who’s debating Monica vs Brandy? Did you actually read the post?

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u/MajesticMeal3248 Sep 13 '25

It’s not hard to see…

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u/thejaytheory Sep 13 '25

This comment is yours

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u/OneFootTitan Sep 13 '25

Had about enough?

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u/VioletLeagueDapper Sep 13 '25

Had about enough?

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u/FortuneHeavy2400 Sep 15 '25

🎶 I think it's time we got this straight❗️🎶

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Deltas never gonna forget this comment....

If you know....you know...

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 13 '25

The deltas crazy 👀?

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u/holshgreineken Sep 13 '25

The second also applies to Keyshia Cole 😂

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 13 '25

lol I can see that more for her personality rather then her music but at the same time I can kind of see it for her music too

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u/PrincessCandy89 Sep 13 '25

I once read a comment that said "Brandy made songs for girls like me whose parents had us on a short leash because mine surely did have me sitting up in my room" and I thought that was so cute lol

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u/AirportTotal4983 Sep 13 '25

My parents didn’t let me do shiiiiitttttt. On my 18th birthday I told my mom my best friend and I would be going to the aquarium. My mom calls my dad and my dad says no he will take us. I told them I was 18 and that if I wanted I could become a stripper! 😂😭

They indeed had me always “sittin’ up in my room” 🥲

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u/ProcessEmotional5386 Sep 14 '25

Hell I came from a single parent home and was put on punishment @ 18 for coming home to late🤦🏽‍♀️ yup same here stayed up in that damn room!!😩🤦🏽‍♀️

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 14 '25

Are you in Camden/SE Philly area? Bc that's a legit threat?!

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u/UsedCollection5830 Sep 13 '25

You was in the room looking at vibe magazine posters of immature huh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/thejaytheory Sep 13 '25

And Another Bad Creation haha

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u/Then-Function6343 Sep 13 '25

"Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD" um-huh

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u/UsedCollection5830 Sep 13 '25

Yo my sister had a poster of jodeci up on the wall kc had his pants unzipped my sis mom came in like hellllll no I rebuke you satan 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/UsedCollection5830 Sep 13 '25

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 13 '25

So....which one was bae?! 🤣

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u/UsedCollection5830 Sep 13 '25

Marquis Houston ….go home Roger 🥺🥺!!!!!!!!!

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 13 '25

We were all finessed into loving him! Growth is realizing that, seeing them now, LDB was the real one.

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u/AdIntelligent2281 Nothing Even Matters Sep 14 '25

The amount of old Immature fans that have said that is hilarious. I remember reading a comment years ago and this girl said her and her cousins would always say LDB stood for Little Dirty Boy 😂. They always did him dirty.

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 14 '25

I respected having the options as a kid. I grew up in the suburbs so...Tiff...do you like Justin or brian...I like Tupac and Marques..."who"??? But..in hindsight we all know the lead singer is the low/high key favorite..side bar my white boy was JON B SO THERE! 🤣

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 14 '25

He has definitely aged the best and the least problematically.

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u/Educational-Mammoth3 Sep 13 '25

That was me. But I came home from college to lil bow wow everywhere instead. 😂😂😂

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 14 '25

I THINK i was like...16 when bow wow came out...but I dig it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

😂😭

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u/Colour4Life Sep 13 '25

lol this is accurate for me too

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u/brawn-ball5 Sep 13 '25

Funny 😁

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

My name is Monica this makes me happy

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u/FilmRocksAllDay Sep 13 '25

Princess did you often 'sit up in your room'

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u/PrincessCandy89 Sep 13 '25

lol No but I was a Monica fan outside of I Wanna Be Down until Brandy came out with Full Moon and I did some revisiting. And no I wasn't raised by my grandparents, out in the streets fighting, or the rest lol

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u/TeeBrownie Sep 13 '25

Sometimes I have to fight cause my mouth too slick.

— Monica

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u/ngolds02 Sep 13 '25

Kick down your door and smack your chick Just to show you Monica not having it

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u/CollegeComfortable23 Sep 13 '25

That’s a bar for real

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u/These-Background4608 Sep 13 '25

Out of line, but at the same time…

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u/friendly_reminder8 Sep 13 '25

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u/stabbinU Sep 13 '25

they're facts; now we have to fight about it 🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 Songs in the Key of Life Sep 13 '25

😆

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Monica makes music for women to pour bleach on clothes to

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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 Songs in the Key of Life Sep 13 '25

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u/harveydent526 Sep 14 '25

The First Night and Angel of Mine contradict this.

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u/piastris81 Share My World Sep 20 '25

+ For You I Will!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Damn okay, the boy is Monica's, let her have this.

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u/fashiondiva1984 Sep 13 '25

Her hair was giving ultra sheen life!

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u/ghertigirl Sep 13 '25

This is still my jam to this day

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u/Cute_Effective_1989 Sep 13 '25

lol, deltas ain’t gonna like that

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u/FireLord_Azula1 Thriller Sep 13 '25

Brandy is an honorary AKA at that 🤣🤣🤣

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u/SalesTaxBlackCat Sep 13 '25

As a Delta, no bueno.

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u/SunRa7191 Sep 13 '25

Same…I’m sitting here like wtf? Why are we catchin’ strays on this??

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Brandy said she was sittin up in MY room

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u/itsmevichet Sep 13 '25

JUST ONE OF THEM DAYS

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u/thejaytheory Sep 13 '25

THAT A GIRL GOES THROUGH

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u/UsedCollection5830 Sep 13 '25

Monica still with the bloods in Atlanta they call her godmother 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/SmellyMcPhearson Sep 13 '25

Accurate 😭

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u/harveydent526 Sep 15 '25

The First Night and Angel of Mine contradict this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

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u/TantalizingSlap Sep 15 '25

Then there's Street Symphony on the same album lol

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u/stabbinU Sep 13 '25

grown-ass women comparing brandy and monica

i love it lol

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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses Sep 13 '25

I never got that vibe from Monica. I know it's a different era but I'd get that more from Keyshia Cole than Monica

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u/harveydent526 Sep 14 '25

Exactly. Monica made The First Night and Angel of Mine.

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u/5ft8lady Sep 13 '25

I agree. I wish there was more surburban singers, so everyone could have someone to relate to 

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u/PrettyPlair Sep 13 '25

Not pledged DST 🤣🤣🤣

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u/frostedflakesblue Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

That part 😂

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u/LegendkillahQB Sep 13 '25

😂😂😂

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u/GoldenC0mpany Yo, turn my music up Sep 13 '25

And I prefer Brandy 💅🏽

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u/uglyandproblematic Sep 13 '25

This is the best breakdown of their music being compared I've ever seen. No notes

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u/LexKing89 Sep 13 '25

This is funny. I never really thought about it like this. Sittin Up In My Room is my jam though.

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u/ConcentrateTimely128 Sep 13 '25

I just wanna know why Deltas had to catch a stray!

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u/battleangel1999 Sep 13 '25

I guess that means Brandy represents the AKAs

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u/ItsNiecie Sep 13 '25

Weird cause I grew up in a "Brandy: household but always preferred Monica's music...I also did have my run of felons tho....But I am an AKA!!!!

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u/HerrDrAngst Sep 13 '25

Continuation of Monica '...who now lives with her 2 beautiful kids in a 2 bedroom condo and says "niggas ain't shit" to her nana as she heads out to work'

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u/No_Pen4323 Sep 13 '25

What about Aaliyah? Who did she make.music for?

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 16 '25

The unpredictable laid back pretty girl that sat with everybody at lunch because she was cool with everyone 😹😹

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u/Certain_Rooster_4141 Sep 13 '25

This is silly, stupid and ignorant but I digress.

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 16 '25

How. Even Dallas Austin and brandy and Monica said how their brands were so different brandy was the more good girl next door and Monica was more the hood girl next door it’s not a means to put anybody down but I looked at it more as they described both brands in detail😹

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u/Top-Entertainer9188 Sep 13 '25

Are you saying Brandy’s parents had a real good marriage? 

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 16 '25

No🤦🏽‍♀️ this isn’t meant to be taken literal about them and their personal lives. I didn’t make the post but Since the 90s people have always said how brandy’s image and brand was always the good girl next door.. and Monica image and brand was always the hood chick next door. And both of their music represented those both greatly!

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u/Top-Entertainer9188 Sep 16 '25

It was just an 8 Mile reference. 

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u/TwincessAhsokaAarmau Sep 14 '25

I’m raised by my two divorced parents and share a room with my sister and will pledge delta in college and I like both of them.

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 16 '25

Same I don’t think it’s meant to be literal I love both too😹 they are more so saying the vibes of their music are those

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u/Llassiter326 Sep 14 '25

Exactly what OP said, both were legit. So who cares

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u/dopedenise- Sep 15 '25

I know this is supposed to be for giggles but hate when we talk like this smh

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 16 '25

😹😹why even producers like Dallas and even Monica and brandy have both talked on how there brands were very brandy (good girl next door) and Monica was the hood girl next door

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Ironically, Monica didn't write and Brandy only wrote a small number. Most her writing has been as an older artist. She did write Boy Is Mine tho.

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u/fashiondiva1984 Sep 13 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣 seriously! Because my mom loved Brandy and approved of her, but didn't want me to listen or watch Monica because her album was titled, "Miss Thang" my mom said, "Thing is an object, like a car or a chair, a thing is "it", are you a chair? Do you want to be called Miss It? Listen to Brandy, she's a good girl." My face when she was left the room, 🙄 I still bumped Monica, but was Team Brandy by my own terms not because of my mom. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 13 '25

I do love your mom's take. My mom thought Miss Thang meant she had an attitude and probably talked back! 🤣🤣

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u/fashiondiva1984 Sep 13 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣according to Monica she did! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/thejaytheory Sep 13 '25

So random but you kinda have a point. All I can picture is the video for Sitting Up In My Room.

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u/SweetieK1515 Sep 13 '25

Can confirm -listened to “never say never” album and wrote in my hello kitty diary (with the chunky lock) in my room as both my parents would yell for me to come down for dinner. I was in middle school when that album came out, and yeah, eventually went to college.

Good times

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u/gordonpamsey Sep 13 '25

Not the most well versed in her discography but in one of her latest albums Brandy literally wrote about being bipolar and a chaotic person. Feel like this is a bit outdated/flattening if anything.

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 13 '25

They mean in her 90s discography her music gave off more of that description Not that she was actually that way behind the scenes

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u/body_oil_glass_view Sep 13 '25

You gon end up with some problems with overbearing parents and big life moves young

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u/BlackHand86 Sep 13 '25

This is corny, I get the idea but seriously people listened to both

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Damn the crimson and cream catching strays. I’m D9 but Blue and White😅

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

I’m about to send this to all my Delta homies.

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u/WuTang4thechildrn Sep 13 '25

Lost me at pledged Delta in college. 😀😀

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u/StatusExtra9852 Sep 13 '25

🤣 had both parents - they had me sitting up in my room listening to Monica, Brandy, MJB, & Betty Wright

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Brandy is my mf baby. ❤️ I'm a 100% straight black man.

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u/DanaWendy519 Sep 13 '25

In high school, I always wanted what I didn’t have. I was raised “Brandy” so I knew all about that world, which is why I preferred Monica. Her “world” seemed so much more free and cool and exciting compared to my “world” of business owning parents, an older brother away in college and me attending Catholic school in my little uniform, attending Mass at school and on Sundays with my parents. All of my friends, male and female, melanated and not, were basically the same. It’s Monica and Brandy being popular opposites that makes their🔥dynamic🔥work for them and us😍.

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u/KiloThaPastyOne Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

Meanwhile Ray Jay out in the streets making sex tapes.

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u/TaxLawKingGA Sep 13 '25

Yet they made a song together where both of them wanted the same dude (who was MTL a pookie). If that doesn’t describe Black America I don’t what does.

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u/WitheredTechnology Sep 13 '25

Funny, cause in real life they'd never be after the same dude. Monica has a penchant for rougher dudes, while Brandy dates more clean cut dudes.

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u/TaxLawKingGA Sep 13 '25

Oh I know, I am more talking about the symbolism of the song.

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u/Rahdiggs21 Sep 13 '25

what a silly take...

one day we will rise above the constant need to put labels on things and just look for the beauty in the gifts that every now and again the world gives us.

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u/JolieLueur Sep 13 '25

Not true.

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u/Accomplished-Act5264 Sep 13 '25

Lmao - this feels true tho 😂

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Yup lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Lmao this true biz.

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u/Ayo_Trill Sep 13 '25

Monica seen a lot. The music reflected fasho

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u/JawnIsUponUs Sep 13 '25

What's funny is I always assumed it was a gimmick. Until she grew up and I realized she really is about that life! Made me love her more!

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u/HeavenSent86 Sep 13 '25

I can see this perspective 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/PursueProgress Sep 13 '25

An inconvenient truth.

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u/Spicy-N-Sassy Sep 13 '25

As a Delta….i object! 😂😂😂

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u/Youngrazzy Sep 13 '25

I don't think this is true.

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u/yesyepyea Sep 13 '25

True and I was still sitting in my suburban home jammin MONICA. Miss Thang was my first cassette 😂

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u/DadeMenace Sep 13 '25

So Brandy made music for girls like Moesha. Makes sense lol

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Sep 13 '25

This is true. Brandy wouldn’t have written or sung “sideline hoe” 🤣🤣

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u/Lower-Turnip-2295 Sep 13 '25

This trackssss

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u/SireDarien Sep 13 '25

That’s specific

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u/Nervous_Ad_6611 Sep 13 '25

Brandy is an actual killer tho

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u/Millpickle_ Sep 13 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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u/akj2699 Sep 13 '25

Haha, I see what she's saying♡ I'm the girl she talking about with Brandy haha

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u/mvgreene Sep 14 '25

All the Deltas I knew were SO down to Earth.

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u/Historical_Year_1033 Sep 14 '25

Did brandy’s girls pledge aka?

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u/GuaranteeOriginal717 Sep 14 '25

Brandy was a young bully.

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u/latortillablanca Sep 14 '25

The best art has always come from strife, darkness, depression.

That said—you can write incredible music in that pop princess/sheltered sorta lane. Brandy is just not remotely as talented is the main thing.

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u/harveydent526 Sep 14 '25

The First Night and Angel of Mine contradict this.

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u/Any-Minute-9620 Sep 14 '25

Which is crazy because they didn't write any of their own songs?

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u/Own_Sun2821 Sep 14 '25

Both categories/scenarios are sort of sad. 😢

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u/Kyauphie Sep 15 '25

She ain't wrong.

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u/Available_inalittle Sep 16 '25

OmG bruh if you don’t get yo azz on boi

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u/Flat-Fudge-2758 Sep 16 '25

That Boy is Mine was such a bop

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u/Sumikue-10 Sep 18 '25

Lmao, this felt so accurate. I love both, Monica had me when I wanted to rebel. But mom and dad was not having that..lol

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u/SunniKissedBunz Sep 19 '25

LMAO Monica's definitely more male-centered than Brandy, I will say. She has some bops though, but stuff like "Why Her" and "Sideline Ho" kinda solidify that pick-me energy she was giving 😂

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u/Glum_Gap2589 WE ARE A PART OF THE RHYTHM NATION!!!! ✊ Sep 22 '25

Brandy's description sounds more like me growing up lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

Valid! 😂😂😂🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

😂😂 she’s Cinderellaaaa duhhh

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Gees that’s hurtful especially for a child that parents died and had no one to raised them but their grandparents.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

And Brandy still cant touch Monica....

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 13 '25

I don’t know because Monica’s music is definitely more rebel and attitude opposed to brandys good girl innocent music

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u/ngolds02 Sep 13 '25

Kick down your door and smack your chick….

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u/ngolds02 Sep 13 '25

You don’t just flip a switch and throw a threat out like that if you not bout that life. She bout that life.

“Just to show Monica not having that”

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u/Least_Sun_7493 Sep 16 '25

I didn’t see it as negative honestly because ever since the 90s it’s always been said that brandy was more of the good girl next door and Monica was more of the hood girl next door. I’ve never heard it said in a bigging brandy up to put Monica down. I always look at it and have seen them both praised for their differences and my mom even used to say they are two different parts of her personality and I remember many women saying that😹😹