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But there was much more to aaliyah than choreographed dance moves, movie roles, and a celebrated voice. She might be well known to many of my readers, but i had never listened to her music before watching the film today. Before beyonce and rihanna, selfproclaimed street but sweet aaliyah was poised to become a global icon. It was released on july 7, 2001, by blackground records and virgin records america aaliyah started to work on the album in 1998, but rescheduled its recording around her developing film career. After months of anticipation and a major cast shakeup, lifetime has released the very first trailer for the networks upcoming biopic aaliyah.

Ive not read the book, but i sincerely hope its more insightful than the movie. Having watched the recent biopic about the late singer aaliyah, miss o gives her impressions of the film and the reactions of other viewers. The biopic stars alexandra shipp as the young, ambitious singer and actress who spends her youth working toward stardom. The story of music and video star aaliyah, whose life ended tragically in a 2001 plane crash in the bahamas. The madefortv film was produced for the lifetime cable network and aired in 2015. More than a woman by christopher john farley, the film arrives on dvd and digital hd via lionsgate on march 10. So advance controversy about the casting, among other things, can only benefit aaliyah. Timbaland, fans blast lifetime for aaliyah biopic variety. With alexandra shipp, elise neal, lyriq bent, morgan kelly. The controversial tv movie finally gets its premiere.

After all, a lot of people idolized the rising star from her hometown of detroit to england. Like buddy holly decades earlier, aaliyah haughton perished in a plane crash at age 22. The film premiered on the lifetime channel on november 15, 2014 and was met with criticism in its early stages of production due to aaliyahs familys disapproval of lifetimes choice to create the film. Alexandra was only a young girl when aaliyah was tragically. The film was met with an immense amount of backlash by the fans, close associates of the songstress, and provided an endless string of memes.