Aaliyah reworked: 10 mashups to celebrate her birthday

From: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/">http://www.latimes.com</a><br /><img alt="Aaliyah" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-50f71998/turbine/la-et-ms-aaliyah-reworked-10-mashups-to-celebr-001/600" /><br /><br /><div class="small" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px;">The singer Aaliyah would have been 34 on Wednesday. <span class="credit">(<span class="photographer">Jim Cooper / Associated Press</span>)</span></div><div></div><br /><br /><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #292727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">By Randall Roberts</span><br /><div class="byline" style="color: #292727; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit"><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: -50px; margin-top: 6px; width: 335px;"><span class="titleline" style="display: block;">Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic</span><span class="titleline" style="display: block;"><span class="dateString" style="color: #930000; display: inline; font-style: italic;">January 16, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="color: #930000; display: inline; font-style: italic; text-transform: lowercase;">1:14 p.m.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43;">You know the songs, tragically frozen in time after R&B singer </span><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/aaliyah-PECLB000001.topic" id="PECLB000001" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; text-decoration: none;" title="Aaliyah">Aaliyah</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43;">'s untimely death: "Try Again," "Are You That Somebody" and "We Need a Resolution." We've heard them, sung them aloud while cruising the city, romanced to them, danced to them. And we've also adapted them. By reworking those </span><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/timbaland-PECLB004718.topic" id="PECLB004718" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; text-decoration: none;" title="Timbaland">Timbaland</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43;">-produced jams, their sheen and joy pops in new ways. The singer would have been 34 on Wednesday.</span><br /><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit">Below are a few inspired Aaliyah reworkings that have popped up on <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/computer-networking-internet/social-media/youtube-ORCRP00000211004.topic" id="ORCRP00000211004" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>, which, combined, not only push the singer's work in new directions but also confirm her influence on the generation of singers who followed. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit">Kendrick Lamar versus Aaliyah: Lamar's killer "Swimming Pools (Drank)" combined with Aaliyah's "We Need a Resolution." Writes mashup artist Raheem D: "These two tracks were similar BPM's and had similar themes to do with drink so I decided to make it seem as if Aaliyah was fed up with Kendrick's alcohol intake during his party going which leads her to ask 'Where you were last night' and 'Where'd you go instead?' </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.43;">Aaliyah's "Rock the Boat" mixed with </span><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/rihanna-PECLB005404.topic" id="PECLB005404" style="color: #666666; line-height: 1.43; text-decoration: none;" title="Rihanna">Rihanna</a><span style="line-height: 1.43;">'s "Rude Boy," all mashed with the killer Enur rhythm for "Calabria." </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit">Rihanna is an Aaliyah inheritor, as evidenced by this killer combo of RiRi's "Umbrella" with the rhythm and a cappella of Aaliyah's "More Than a Woman."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit">Drake's "Marvin's Room" versus Aaliyah's "If Your Girl Only Knew." Aaliyah's tough track tempers Drake's boasts, killer combo ensues. (Note, because of Drake's potty mouth, we can't embed this -- and it's not safe for jamming at work. But <a href="http://youtu.be/4v2t1pFHr88" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">click to listen</a>.)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit">Frank Ocean "Thinkin' Bout You" versus Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody." </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit">Miguel's "Sure Thing" versus  Aaliyah's "One in a Million."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="credit">Yes, Aaliyah can rock too. This would be the Disturbed backing Aaliyah.</span></div></div><span class="credit"></span></div>

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From:  http://www.latimes.com The singer Aaliyah would have been 34 on Wednesday.  ( Jim Cooper / Associated Press ) By Randall Roberts Los ...

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