You are spot on about her being a game changer, and not getting much credit for it. Thank you for posting this, she is one of my favs just from her talent alone, and all the innovative moves she made was the icing on the cake!🙌🏾 She is a technical beast, she truly uses her voice as an instrument and is one of the few artist who has only gotten better vocally over time. She most likely is your favorite’s favorite.
I was watching this last season of Masked Singer, and one of the contestants was JoJo. In the finale, she hit a run, and my 15 year old said, "Ooo, that's a Brandy note". She's still changing the game, and influencing, all these years later. I love me some Brandy.
Brandy is consistent. Always slays vocals and stays true to herself. Plus she is legitimately talented. She doesn’t try to be who she isn’t. I’ve always rocked with her and supported all her music. I’m still blasting “Drum Life “ on the regular. Oh and she is a vocal powerhouse. Let’s get that straight lol. Fans know this.
She’s literally a living legend! When it’s all said and done I hope she does get the credit she deserves (especially for her voice I feel like it get even less credit than her music) . I can hear so much of her in a lot of these new artist male and female. She’s one of my biggest idols I LOVE her she was TRULY ahead of her time❤️.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head, Brandy is a game changer and was one of the people who made a lane for young black singers crossing over into television & film, she was a Covergirl, she had a Barbie doll. Her artistry is crazy...the intricacy of her background vocals though!!!! She has a lovely voice that legit gets better with age. She's able to encompass some many different emotions with the textures and colors of her voice ugh this woman has been my fave for YEARS. I appreciate that some are finally giving her her flowers these days but I hope for more amazing art musically and acting wise in the future.
I absolutely love Brandy. I think she has done so much and has worked so hard for many years even with the tragedies that had happened in her life, she still continues to make good music and touch souls. I really hope Brandy gets all the respect that she is due because she deserves it.
Brandy is far from being “technically perfect” and has never been known for having a powerful voice. It’s her tone, lower register, vocal agility with riffs and runs, and her amazing harmonies that are her bread and butter.
@@rydercdaniels4475 How has she never been known for having a powerful voice? You sound like a low key hater… a person who doesn’t have a powerful voice would be a Ciara or a Cassie. Check her bathroom covers of "A Change is Gone Come" & "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". Definitely a powerhouse vocalist, stop dry hating.
She creates her own surround sound with the way she records by placing some vocals forward, some in the back, some a faint whisper, others a strong belt..throw in some harmony ....she created 3 dimensional vocals.
Thank you for this! Brandy is an absolute ICON whose vocal tone and ability cannot be matched. Although some may not like her different sounds, true music listeners appreciate her risk taking!
Beautiful video! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your extensive research. I had no idea that Brandy did the background vocals on Nature Feels, one of my favorite songs ever. She's the first person that I ever idolized after seeing her star in Cinderella and her discography is incredible. Long live the vocal bible queen. ❤️
I love Brandy & I'm grateful for my human experience to be able to hear her. "Never Say Never" was my introduction to her. Now that I'm older I really mess with 2/11. I think she became a vocal powerhouse & in her prime between the ages of 28-35. There was always constant progression in her voice. I've been binge watching those live peformances from 2/11 era & omg 🤯 Effortless belts. Acrobatic adlibs & riffs. Plus the type of confidence she exuded on stage as grown woman vs when she was a teen on stage is night & day. The amount of unreleased records she has is astonishing to me. It's like 3 to 4 albums worth of material. "Like It Was Yesterday" being one of my faves 💖 All these features too that I've never heard before! I am truly immersed into Brandy's musical journey. I wish I was Brandy fanatic sooner but I was young & depressed 2000s kid bumpin' SZA & Oddfuture🤣
Word!!!!!! All That!!!! Brandy was My obsession!!! The Hardest Working PERFECT AQUARIAN QUEEN !!!! Nobody has done it better, you mad ♒️ us so proud!!! Stay focused on YOU...just be BRANDY
B-Rocka will be my fav 4ever (see what I did there 😅). Been loving her since I discovered her. I had 2 crushes growing up Brandy & Raven Symoné. Thanks for the video.
I love brandy. She's having a deserved and overdue career resurgence. Cinderella is streaming on Disney plus, Moesha on Netflix, her versus with Monica. The new generation is getting to know her work. Another artist that I wish people would give more credit to is Janelle Monae. Can you make a video about her please?? She has great music.
I love Brandy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel the same way about Bey...Bey doesnt have a vocal powerhouse vocal, but her voice is so good and like Brandy they use it to the best of what they have. Those runs, riffs are unmatched
Brandy and Frank Ocean workednon a song onnhis first mixtape Lonny Breaux called Suprise Ending it's an enitre bop, but Brandy is and will forever be the vocal bible!!!!!!
It's always the tone of a vocalist that draws me in, and Brandy has the best of them all. You won't know her but you should check out Mutya Buena. Another female with a tone that will make you drool
People always mention her first as her best. I'm like did you even listen to the WHOLE album?. She had a lot of growing up to do(voice wise). Even one song on Never Say Never called Tomorrow. I can hear that kiddie Brandy voice(still a good song). Young artist like London Arrington is younger then 1994 Brandy. Still, I don't hear that child like voice from her album Trip To Paris. She sounded real mature on that masterpiece 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
@@jknumber5138 Never Say Never was probably her best not just for vocals but the writing was very good and Brandy wrote many of the songs on that album and is an excellent song writer. I love all her albums though. She's the one artist whose songs I know well not just the singles.
And this is why her and Rodney have unfinished business. Her Never say Never album is why I say this. I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS BRANDY NORWOOD.
Sheryl Lee Ralph's comment speaks more to how great she is, not Brandy. And dismissing (and ignoring) the accomplishments of her contemporaries is as problematic as how Brandy used to get treated. While one can appreciate how well formatted and planned this video is, as a POC who grew up in that era, a number of the "reasons" given for her being special are rather dubious and her actual accomplishments get glossed over. Great overall production value, though.
Thank you for watching! I respect your comment. I absolutely adore Brandy, so I would never want to diminish her any kind of way. I really wanted to celebrate her and hopefully encourage others to learn more about her. If you want to list out some of her accomplishments, I would be more than happy to pin the comment so that others can see that there are more concrete facts that reflect her greatness 🤎
Watch #Brandy's new video #Borderline here >> ua-cam.com/video/vr2r3H477uY/v-deo.html Off of her highly anticipated album #b7 stream here >> lnk.to/BRANDYB7
These are sum of my unpopular Brandy opinions. I really feel like she should’ve spent more time either working on music or self-care. I know what you did last summer 2, Zoe ever After, The Game, Double Platinum, and Moesha are pretty forgettable (to me). The only reason Moesha and Double Platinum are getting more hype now is bc they’re both on Netflix and we’re in a pandemic. I mean if we’re being honest with ourselves, nobody was going out of their way to watch either of these pre-Netflix. I’m not exactly a huge fan of Brandy’s acting skill either. She’s not horrible but she’s just “ok”. But it’s whatever tho
Her visibility increased in 2020 period. She put more effort than she normally does into making it that way. I actually think that ppl watched her shows on Netflix because her overall visibility increased.The pandemic is not causing ppl to watch things they have no interest in at all. The pandemic may have helped a tiny bit, but ppl have been talking about “Moesha” ever since they’ve talked about a potential reboot, anyways.
@@greatsweetnice she started talking about a reboot in 2020. At the beginning of this pandemic. And Bc ppl have shit else to do, ofc more shows are going to be watched. And what better show to binge watch than the show that u forgot even existed? Let’s just be real wasn’t nobody talking abt this show pre-pandemic.
@@tim-tbone5513 no people been asking to get ahold of moesha back when DVDs were hot. And they started talking about the reboot in 2016 when the cast reunited on the real
@@OurMusicIsOurs Yes of course, and I kinda didnt do Brandy justice with my comment, vocally, she did inspire alot of girls with the vocal stacking (Full Moon) which changed how alot of singers, rappers too even recorded their music. But I think she & monica are definitely getting recognition for alot of things Aaliyah did first, just because her music isn't on streaming services & theirs are. I would love to hear a video from you surrounding that topic.
@@bipolardrama-queen2671 Good point about Aaliyah's music not being avail on streaming, which is a total shame. I will def consider doing a video on that
Girl , it was all 3 of them . Brandy took the cake for the 90s she literally was everywhere. No one gave Aaliyah her props until she passed away . All of them bought their own thing but brandy was the princess 👑
Lets be real... she CHANGED ALL OF R&B with Full Moon!
I think to me never say never but full moon went all out
Period!!
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A L L U H V I T ‼️‼️
Brandy is most definitely a vocal powerhouse in most/certain aspects.
Right....I didn't agree with that open statement.
Brandy will forever have a special place in my heart from her acting alone! It touched me deeply when she did cinderella
Me too SOO so much fr
I absolutely LOVE Brandy!
She's amazing!
Brandy is & always will be my forever favorite singer. 👑👑👑👑
You are spot on about her being a game changer, and not getting much credit for it. Thank you for posting this, she is one of my favs just from her talent alone, and all the innovative moves she made was the icing on the cake!🙌🏾 She is a technical beast, she truly uses her voice as an instrument and is one of the few artist who has only gotten better vocally over time. She most likely is your favorite’s favorite.
N R Yeah I've been rewatching "Moesha".
I was watching this last season of Masked Singer, and one of the contestants was JoJo. In the finale, she hit a run, and my 15 year old said, "Ooo, that's a Brandy note". She's still changing the game, and influencing, all these years later. I love me some Brandy.
I love her too. She's influenced all the girls. She's your favorite singer's favorite singer.
Brandy is DEFINITELY a vocal powerhouse. Love the video 😘 beautiful editing ❤️
Full moon (the entire album) is EVERYTHING
Yep, I stan it!
Brandy is a living legend. #iconsOnly.
Brandy is consistent. Always slays vocals and stays true to herself. Plus she is legitimately talented. She doesn’t try to be who she isn’t. I’ve always rocked with her and supported all her music. I’m still blasting “Drum Life “ on the regular. Oh and she is a vocal powerhouse. Let’s get that straight lol. Fans know this.
Lol I respect it. She's def a vocal beast!
Brandy has a very magnetic energy.
She’s literally a living legend! When it’s all said and done I hope she does get the credit she deserves (especially for her voice I feel like it get even less credit than her music) . I can hear so much of her in a lot of these new artist male and female. She’s one of my biggest idols I LOVE her she was TRULY ahead of her time❤️.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head, Brandy is a game changer and was one of the people who made a lane for young black singers crossing over into television & film, she was a Covergirl, she had a Barbie doll. Her artistry is crazy...the intricacy of her background vocals though!!!! She has a lovely voice that legit gets better with age. She's able to encompass some many different emotions with the textures and colors of her voice ugh this woman has been my fave for YEARS. I appreciate that some are finally giving her her flowers these days but I hope for more amazing art musically and acting wise in the future.
This is very well executed. Thank you for giving Brandy her flowers! 👸🏾❤
I grew up on Brandy, and I have many fond memories of watching her show and listening to her albums. She will a musical black fairy to me.
She's so amazing!
I absolutely love Brandy. I think she has done so much and has worked so hard for many years even with the tragedies that had happened in her life, she still continues to make good music and touch souls. I really hope Brandy gets all the respect that she is due because she deserves it.
Brandy IS actually a vocal powerhouse and technically perfect with an incredibly unique tone.
Very distinctive tone
Brandy is far from being “technically perfect” and has never been known for having a powerful voice. It’s her tone, lower register, vocal agility with riffs and runs, and her amazing harmonies that are her bread and butter.
@@rydercdaniels4475 How has she never been known for having a powerful voice? You sound like a low key hater… a person who doesn’t have a powerful voice would be a Ciara or a Cassie. Check her bathroom covers of "A Change is Gone Come" & "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". Definitely a powerhouse vocalist, stop dry hating.
Love this and love her!!!! Give Brandy her flowers. Love this!!!!!
Brandy music is so good they made a liquor out of it 🥃🎙🎼🎵🎶
Loved your description of her vocals as a "surround-sound experience"- it truly does feel that way!
She creates her own surround sound with the way she records by placing some vocals forward, some in the back, some a faint whisper, others a strong belt..throw in some harmony ....she created 3 dimensional vocals.
@@nicim3730 YES! The layering she does with her vocals imparts her sound w/ a complexity that is truly unmatched.
Thank you for making this, great highlights. Brandy is simply the best
Since 1994 and will continue to the end of time - Love Love B-Rocka ❤️❤️
love brandy, love this take on Brandy. bless!!!
Thank you for watching. I love her too 😊🤎
Where there's Brandy, there's MAGIC!!!
Brandy is just so amazing
Never rediscovering. ..She never left my radar. Literally my fav. She IS ____!
I love Brandy❤ like I just adore her😍
The best!
Thank you for this! Brandy is an absolute ICON whose vocal tone and ability cannot be matched. Although some may not like her different sounds, true music listeners appreciate her risk taking!
I love how u give details to appreciate the artist more 💝
Brandy is a perfectionist just at 15 she is multitalented and has earned a Grammy!
My favorite album by her never say never
Thank you for sharing!
Brandy is the best female vocalist of my time.
Thank you for this, i could listen to people acknowledge Brandys greatness all day 🥰🥰
Aww thank you for watching!
Love Love Love Brandy 💕
Me too!
Full moon is a masterpiece
I love brandy I’m 21 but she’s a big part of my teenage years. I love her.
Same. She's amazing!
I admire Brandy. She is like no one; no one is like her.
Facts all day!
Full moon did that work! It’s here magna opus…. I play it straight through. Brandy is a legend singer, actress, and rapper too.
Big facts!
Brandy will always be the best for me 💯
Beautiful video! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your extensive research. I had no idea that Brandy did the background vocals on Nature Feels, one of my favorite songs ever. She's the first person that I ever idolized after seeing her star in Cinderella and her discography is incredible. Long live the vocal bible queen. ❤️
Jlo was able to handle both music and acting because someone else was doing the singing for her. She's cannot be compared to Brandy.
Welp, you got me there!
LMFAOOOOO
Thank you!!!!! U just reminded me of my song Quickly!!!! That song is Everything!!!!!!!!
Brandy's 2/11 album was slept on but it was such a masterpiece. Definitely had some hits. ❤
I love 2/11 too!
I love Brandy & I'm grateful for my human experience to be able to hear her. "Never Say Never" was my introduction to her. Now that I'm older I really mess with 2/11. I think she became a vocal powerhouse & in her prime between the ages of 28-35. There was always constant progression in her voice. I've been binge watching those live peformances from 2/11 era & omg 🤯 Effortless belts. Acrobatic adlibs & riffs. Plus the type of confidence she exuded on stage as grown woman vs when she was a teen on stage is night & day. The amount of unreleased records she has is astonishing to me. It's like 3 to 4 albums worth of material. "Like It Was Yesterday" being one of my faves 💖 All these features too that I've never heard before! I am truly immersed into Brandy's musical journey. I wish I was Brandy fanatic sooner but I was young & depressed 2000s kid bumpin' SZA & Oddfuture🤣
Not a powerhouse? I beg to differ
Yeah ‘Beggin and Pleadin’ has entered the CHAT.
You have a very calm voice. Love it!
I love this woman!
Me too! 🤎
One word QUEEN 👑
Word!!!!!!
All That!!!!
Brandy was My obsession!!!
The Hardest Working
PERFECT AQUARIAN QUEEN !!!!
Nobody has done it better, you mad ♒️ us so proud!!!
Stay focused on YOU...just be BRANDY
Love this! Brandy is my Top number female vocalist. Far as top female artist. Her, Chloe x Halle, and Janet.
Glad you enjoyed this video!
thank u for this
B-Rocka will be my fav 4ever (see what I did there 😅). Been loving her since I discovered her. I had 2 crushes growing up Brandy & Raven Symoné. Thanks for the video.
I love brandy. She's having a deserved and overdue career resurgence. Cinderella is streaming on Disney plus, Moesha on Netflix, her versus with Monica. The new generation is getting to know her work. Another artist that I wish people would give more credit to is Janelle Monae. Can you make a video about her please?? She has great music.
And now has a new hip-hopera(Queens).
I love Brandy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel the same way about Bey...Bey doesnt have a vocal powerhouse vocal, but her voice is so good and like Brandy they use it to the best of what they have. Those runs, riffs are unmatched
Beyoncé def is a power house vocalist and one of the best
Brandy and Frank Ocean workednon a song onnhis first mixtape Lonny Breaux called Suprise Ending it's an enitre bop, but Brandy is and will forever be the vocal bible!!!!!!
I hope they'll collab again.
It's always the tone of a vocalist that draws me in, and Brandy has the best of them all.
You won't know her but you should check out Mutya Buena. Another female with a tone that will make you drool
Love her tone too. I need to check Mutya's music out!
Can you do Fantasia/ Ruben Studdard
You didn't mention her 2nd best album(Human). 1st & Love is my jam
I loved it on the first listen(Torn Down Piano Man Something Is Missing Title Song...amazing album🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙)
People always mention her first as her best. I'm like did you even listen to the WHOLE album?. She had a lot of growing up to do(voice wise). Even one song on Never Say Never called Tomorrow. I can hear that kiddie Brandy voice(still a good song). Young artist like London Arrington is younger then 1994 Brandy. Still, I don't hear that child like voice from her album Trip To Paris. She sounded real mature on that masterpiece 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Afrodisiac Never Say Never and Full Moon are all classics. Human not really
Two Eleven Human Afrodisiac B7 Full Moon Never Say Never Family Business(2011) and Self Title(1994) are my favorite Brandy albums(in order)
@@jknumber5138 Never Say Never was probably her best not just for vocals but the writing was very good and Brandy wrote many of the songs on that album and is an excellent song writer. I love all her albums though. She's the one artist whose songs I know well not just the singles.
Brandy is the standard
Big facts!
Vocal Bible!
FACTS!
How do you do your cut outs in your editing ?
Finally 😍 someone talked about the
👁con
I had to do it!
@@OurMusicIsOurs 😭😭😭😭 i’m so happy you did i live for this queen 👑
Love your channel 🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️
@@nenonxo1951 Aww thank you!!
@@OurMusicIsOurs 🥰🥰🥰😁 always girl
YESSS!💯💖
Brandy is not a powerhouse? Girl...
That shouldn’t even be a question
First black covergirl too, right?
Always knew! Crush day 1
I wish she worked more with Kanye around Aphrodisiac era
And this is why her and Rodney have unfinished business. Her Never say Never album is why I say this. I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS BRANDY NORWOOD.
Full moon says hi
I dont trust him after the Human album.
Ray J was right. Rodney just gave her his leftover crap and did minimal production
@@natsohigh5552 He even gave away some of her signature sound away from Full moon😒😒
@@natsohigh5552 SHE WASN'T FOCUSED, THEY BOTH AGREED ON THAT!!!!!!!!!!
Not a vocal powerhouse??? Then why is she called the vocal bible?
💯💯💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Like the video BUT I disagree w/ u on What About Us that song DID INDEED age well
Thanks! I respect it. I don't remember what I said, but I don't think I'd say anything bad about the song, but rather the video
Sheryl Lee Ralph's comment speaks more to how great she is, not Brandy. And dismissing (and ignoring) the accomplishments of her contemporaries is as problematic as how Brandy used to get treated. While one can appreciate how well formatted and planned this video is, as a POC who grew up in that era, a number of the "reasons" given for her being special are rather dubious and her actual accomplishments get glossed over. Great overall production value, though.
Thank you for watching! I respect your comment. I absolutely adore Brandy, so I would never want to diminish her any kind of way. I really wanted to celebrate her and hopefully encourage others to learn more about her. If you want to list out some of her accomplishments, I would be more than happy to pin the comment so that others can see that there are more concrete facts that reflect her greatness 🤎
Watch #Brandy's new video #Borderline here >> ua-cam.com/video/vr2r3H477uY/v-deo.html
Off of her highly anticipated album #b7 stream here >> lnk.to/BRANDYB7
No you didn't play ANYBODY!!!! YOU ARE MY PEOPLE!!!!
Because we know it’s not looks
These are sum of my unpopular Brandy opinions. I really feel like she should’ve spent more time either working on music or self-care. I know what you did last summer 2, Zoe ever After, The Game, Double Platinum, and Moesha are pretty forgettable (to me). The only reason Moesha and Double Platinum are getting more hype now is bc they’re both on Netflix and we’re in a pandemic. I mean if we’re being honest with ourselves, nobody was going out of their way to watch either of these pre-Netflix. I’m not exactly a huge fan of Brandy’s acting skill either. She’s not horrible but she’s just “ok”. But it’s whatever tho
This was a nice vid and she is a very underrated artist. And I say that knowing how loosely the word “underrated” is thrown around.
Her visibility increased in 2020 period. She put more effort than she normally does into making it that way. I actually think that ppl watched her shows on Netflix because her overall visibility increased.The pandemic is not causing ppl to watch things they have no interest in at all. The pandemic may have helped a tiny bit, but ppl have been talking about “Moesha” ever since they’ve talked about a potential reboot, anyways.
@@greatsweetnice she started talking about a reboot in 2020. At the beginning of this pandemic. And Bc ppl have shit else to do, ofc more shows are going to be watched. And what better show to binge watch than the show that u forgot even existed? Let’s just be real wasn’t nobody talking abt this show pre-pandemic.
@@tim-tbone5513 no people been asking to get ahold of moesha back when
DVDs were hot. And they started talking about the reboot in 2016 when the cast reunited on the real
im sorry she really wasn't a game changer musically. that was aaliyah & she just followed.
Respect your opinion. I'm of the mindset that they can all be celebrated.
@@OurMusicIsOurs Yes of course, and I kinda didnt do Brandy justice with my comment, vocally, she did inspire alot of girls with the vocal stacking (Full Moon) which changed how alot of singers, rappers too even recorded their music. But I think she & monica are definitely getting recognition for alot of things Aaliyah did first, just because her music isn't on streaming services & theirs are. I would love to hear a video from you surrounding that topic.
@@bipolardrama-queen2671 Good point about Aaliyah's music not being avail on streaming, which is a total shame. I will def consider doing a video on that
Girl , it was all 3 of them . Brandy took the cake for the 90s she literally was everywhere. No one gave Aaliyah her props until she passed away . All of them bought their own thing but brandy was the princess 👑
@@OurMusicIsOurs I agree . They ALL can