In the end, Monica came up with nine songs for her third album which she declared as " quite serious" because of its more adult subject-matter and moreover called her " coming of age' record" with the view to "establish the kind of fans who will be with me for the next ten years and more. " I didn't have one concept in mind: I just thought about the situations and that they might be worth sharing." Throughout the process, Monica primarily focused on working with her usual stable of producers which also included Dallas Austin, production team Soulshock & Karlin, Bryan-Michael Cox and Rodney Jerkins & his Darkchild crew.Įven though Monica " had never thought about writing much" by then, her producers encouraged her to intensify her work on the album and to write and contribute own lyrics and ideas to the songs. Over the course of the sessions Clive Davis (who had taken Monica with him from his former label, Arista Records) to his latest venture, J Records emerged as her new mentor replacing producer Dallas Austin while longtime contributor Jermaine Dupri served as the album's executive producer. Monica eventually decided to return to the recording studio to prepare the release of her third album in the fall of 2001. I'm hoping to be an inspiration to a lot of young women." It was very difficult to juggle all of those things and then try to be a family for his kids at the same time. Monica noted that the song didn't " pertain to the stage in my life I'm in, so I'm really waiting and looking for material that will take you to some of the depths in my soul. In the first quarter of 2001, her single "Just Another Girl" (which was taken from the soundtrack of the 2001 film "Down to Earth") was released. I'm not ashamed to say that I decided to step back and get the help I needed to really come from within."
I was not able I was working all these hours after it happened, I realized in the midst of everything, I couldn't handle it. " Jarvis' death had everything to do with me not working. In 2001, Monica said about her boyfriend's death: He left behind a daughter from a previous relationship who Monica took into care after going into hiatus. In July of 2000, Monica and Jarvis were together at the graveside of Jarvis' brother (who had died in an automobile accident in 1998 at the age of 25) when Jarvis without warning, put a gun to his head and shot himself to death. The following month, personal tribulations put a temporary halt on the album's production when her former boyfriend Jarvis "Knot" Weems committed suicide. In an interview with MTV News in June of 2000, Monica revealed that she was planning to start work on a follow-up to her 1998 album " The Boy Is Mine" throughout the summer season with a first single to be released by October of the same year.Įxpressing her interest in reteaming with the core musicians she had worked with on her second album, including frequent collaborators Dallas Austin, Rodney Jerkins, David Foster, Daryl Simmons, and Jermaine Dupri, Monica expected the album to be released in the first quarter of 2001 following her involvement with Oscar Mayer's "Jingle Jam Talent Search" contest and the filming of her first major motion picture, the 2001 MTV Films production "Love Song."
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