Blog Buddy Sam over at That Grape Juice recently caught up with R&B singer Monica and she discussed everything from her relationship with baby daddy Rocko, working with Brandy, her thoughts on Rihanna, Twitter as well as her upcoming album “Still Standing”.
Check out a few experts from that interview below:
Monica On Her New Single “Everything To Me” and The power of Twitter:
Monica: I have to be honest with you and tell you that, the song ‘Success’ didn’t take me as much by surprise as peoples response to a 40 second clip of the song on the television show. The way I was able to fight for this record was actually through my Twitter page (http://twitter.com/monicamylife) and that is just unbelievable to me.
On the Tuesday night, when the eighth episode aired, I played the song for some other producers and I got hundreds of messages about ‘I want to hear the rest of that song,’ ‘that song feels right,’ ‘that song is about love,’ ‘that song is real R&B’. It just really was a great reality check for me; to follow your heart to, follow what it is that you’re placed here to do. I’m an R&B singer first and foremost, so I’m more surprised about the way people just stepped up and said ‘look this is what we want.’
Monica on her relationship & marriage plans to fiancé Rocko:
Ludacris always tells me I’m like one of the guys. I don’t think there should be any pressure applied in that area we have a committed loving relationship and we don’t cross the boundaries. We very much like a marriage. But the rest I’ll let him make the decisions on
Monica on working with Recording Artist Brandy In the future:
That’s a hard one, I want to be honest with you really quickly. I wouldn’t try to duplicate that record nor would I try to duplicate that moment, I heard Jay-Z say something the other day, that something’s are better left untouched and they remain great that way. And that is how I feel with that record. I love the fact that she could me for that record, her and Rodney Jerkins put it together and I’m very fortunate to have been a part of it and with us being grown women now, and talking and looking back….. that’s just a moment I wouldn’t touch because I wouldn’t want to change it.
Monica on speaking to Rihanna:
Monica: I was really surprised, Rihanna and I use the same makeup artist sometimes, and I called her phone the other day and I was talking to Myla and she said ‘Oh my God we’re listening to you’ and I said who, and I heard somebody with an accent say [does an accent] ‘who are you talking to, that can’t be Monica…. I love her, oh my God’ and we talked and it was heart-warming for one to see someone that’s a of a superstar status enjoy my music and is not afraid to say ‘look, I love your work, I love what you do, I love your voice’. I think it’s important for all of us to stay humble enough to pay respect to those who came before us in any way and that was very heart warming for me.
Still Standing is due in stores March 23rd make sure you go out and pick up your copy.
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