August 14, 1999
Monica : Angel of mine
If it were possible to make a record that actually embarrassed your stereo, surely this could do it.
If it were possible to make a record that actually embarrassed your stereo, surely this could do it. It simpers obsequiously out of the speakers, pretty little hands over its face, muttering, "Sorry I haven't got Brandy with me this time, please like me anyway..." There's no dignity here whatsoever. Just a wash of scrupulously deodorised, drooling synth, over which poor Monica is required to intone such sickly platitudes as, "Nothing means more to me than what we share". Yeeeuch.
To make matters worse, 'Angel Of Mine' isn't even Monica's song. It's been nicked from Eternal. Monica has a voice capable of mingling the velvety sophistication of Whitney Houston with the streetwise gumption of Tracy Chapman, and this is what she ends up
using
it for. Shame. Shame.
April Long
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