I’m definitely familiar with the name and the artist, I just have no memory of it. It feels like it’s from that Maya / Christina Milian / Ashanti era that I‘ve chosen to forget about.
I had a very love / hate relationship with 00s R&B… i liked all the sparse hip hop and funk influenced stuff from the likes of Kelis and Beyoncé, and was really into the neo soul stuff, but there was a lot of poppy mass market stuff, a lot of which I ignored… I had a hard time letting go of the smoother 90s sound.