Talk:After the Storm (Monica album)

Soundscan sales past 1 million

 * Please do not change this page. The album has scanned over a million in the states according to this source. Please lets keep reputable sources here.LAUGH90 (talk) 05:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This source is totally unreliable. Yes, it has sold nearly 1,000,000 million copies - but it has not been confirmned to be gold yet. Noboyo

Chicago Sun-Times review
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"(STAR)(STAR)(STAR). MONICA, "AFTER THE STORM" (J RECORDS). Five years after her fake Grammy-winning catfight with Brandy ("The Boy Is Mine"), Monica works through some real personal travails in the cathartic "After the Storm." Her pain and confusion over a good friend's suicide come through in "I Wrote This Song," and she ably serenades us through other relationship joys and pains. While solid mid-tempo ballads are well- repped here, the project's outstanding party joint, "Get It Off," produced by Missy Elliott, could have used some company. Hot, hot, hot are the collaboration with DMX, "Don't Gotta Go Home," and the CD's hit first single, "So Gone," including the remix with Busta Rhymes. "Should've Known Better," the old-school feeling "Breaks My Heart" and "Hurts the Most" score, but surprisingly, her duet with Tyrese, "Go to Bed Mad," falls flat. Four slammin' bonus tracks (I really liked the inspirational "Searchin") round out a comeback disc that's worth the wait."

- Angela Myers

The Washington Post review
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"The most enduring legacy of "After the Storm," the third CD by the 22-year-old singer Monica, may be its "instant remix." The third song on the disc, the radio hit "So Gone," is a jilted lover's fulmination ("What she do / I do better") abetted by the platinum production touch of Missy Elliott. Ten tracks later -- on "Outro," the disc's best, and final, song -- Elliott takes a second shot at "So Gone," with one of her patented playful raps providing more sonic sauce to refresh and improve on the groove of the original.

The rest of "Storm" plays on the premise of Monica as a good girl who loves bad boys -- a resonant theme given her checkered romance with rapper C-Murder. On "U Should've Known Better," she's a steadfast soul mate visiting her man in prison, with guitarist William Odum wailing away like Ernie Isley. On "I Wrote This Song," neatly set off by a Shuggie Otis sample, she succumbs to the travails of thug love and breaks it off. Duets with rugged rapper DMX and model-cum-vocalist Tyrese fail to generate potent chemistry, and Monica's voice lacks the range and firepower to pull off power ballads like "Breaks My Heart" and "Hurts the Most."

But the "bonus disc" scores with the catchy "Too Hood" and the video for "So Gone," which reinforces the notion that Monica's real talent may be on the screen. In other words, the substance of "Storm" is in the supposed "extras," which give fans the feeling they've stumbled on to a hidden cache -- and distract them from the formulaic, mediocre material that dominates the rest of the package."

- Britt Robson

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