Monica - "After The Storm" (2003)

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

"New Monica!" lol, It's been 15 years since After The Storm came out. What are your memories of this album? What are your fave tracks? Please share! My faves are "Hurts The Most", "Knock Knock", "So Gone", "U Should've Known Better".

So Gone: #10 Hot 100, #1 Dance, #1 R&B

Knock Knock: #75 Hot 100, #24 R&B

U Should've Known Better: #19 Hot 100, #6 R&B

[Zinc.]

Great follow-up album.

[Leigh]

I love Breaks My Heart from this album 😍😍😍 such a great ballad

[Glove Slap]

Oct 3, 2018 20:05:54 GMT -5 Leigh said:

I love Breaks My Heart from this album 😍😍😍 such a great ballad

I LOVE that song! My instant favorite from the first listen.

[Leigh]

Oct 3, 2018 20:08:31 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

Oct 3, 2018 20:05:54 GMT -5 Leigh said:

I love Breaks My Heart from this album 😍😍😍 such a great ballad

I LOVE that song! My instant favorite from the first listen.

Same!! I just recently rediscovered it and fell in love with it anew.

[bat1990]

Oct 3, 2018 20:05:54 GMT -5 Leigh said:

I love Breaks My Heart from this album 😍😍😍 such a great ballad

It was one of the songs salvaged from the scrapped All Eyez on Me

[B-Boy]

Besides the singles, some of my favorite tracks are “Don’t Gotta Go Home” (with DMX) and “That’s My Man”.

“Knock Knock” was obviously single material when the radio DJs premiered it that summer. It resurfaced as a single later on, but it didn’t smash like “So Gone”. “Get It Off” is such a banger. I remember hearing it on the radio for a few weeks.

[Deleted]

Great album with stellar singles, and the last Monica album I really got into.

[Deleted]

I liked this more at the time than I do now. "So Gone" is still one of my favorites by her, and I like a handful of the album tracks, but I don't listen to the rest much anymore.

[Ky]

This is my favorite album of hers. I wish "Knock Knock" would've smashed, and I think "Go To Bed Mad" should've been a single after the surprise success of "U Should've Known Better".

[Ginger Spice]

There was a point where I considered this my favorite Monica album, but I listen to The Boy Is Mine more nowadays. "So Gone" is probably the only one I revisit semi-often.

Monica had great moments, but she never had a truly great album.

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[bat1990]

I enjoy this album and have always had a soft spot for the cancelled All Eyez on Me so I'm glad about half of that album came over. I loooooooooooooove the aesthetic of this era - album art, videos, styling. Monica just seemed so cool and grown. I only wish they'd have kept "I'm Back" because Monica sounds so good over the "Hypnotize" sample.

[divasummer]

I purchased this cd back in the day.
The version I got had a 2nd bonus cd with I believe 4 tracks on it.
Unfortunately my favorite song off it isn’t on streaming services. “Searching”.
It’s actually in my top two or three favorites off the whole cd….
At the time I wasn’t really into “So Gone”, but eventually got into it. I know I was completely in the minority with that one.
I was never into “Knock Knock” and was annoyed when it was released when the stunning “Breaks My Heart” which I still listen to till this day was right there…. I still get the same feeling today as I did then when I listen to it.
“Ain’t Gonna Cry No More” was a favorite of mine. I was always up for a typical Rodney Jerkins production.
I loved “U Should Have Known Better” and was into “Get It Off” too.
I really liked 90 percent of the cd.
I still listen to a decent amount of it.
I also saw her at a Free concert in Boston at the end of the era.
It was strange because it was for a dance station so when Monica came on the audience changed. Lol
She was good, but dressed very casually if I remember correctly with very minimal makeup. Certainly not like she performs now, but it was during the day so I didn’t care.