Even before Soundgarden wrote a song about him, Artis was the most famous spoon player of all time. "[5] Erlewine picked "Let Me Show You The Way (Out)", "Hit the Freeway" and "Tell Me" as the album's best tracks. English thesaurus is mainly derived from The Integral Dictionary (TID). The eighth track "Do You Remember When" is the only song produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins and it harks back to the smooth R&B of Braxton's self-titled debut. More Than a Woman is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Toni Braxton. [7], The official first single released from the album was "Hit the Freeway" featuring rapper Loon. The singular “woman” probably gets mixed up with the plural “women” because although both are spelled with an O in the first syllable, only the pronunciation of the O really differentiates them.Just remember that this word is treated no differently than “man” (one person) and “men” (more than one person). Most of the songs were written by Braxton, her husband Keri Lewis, and her sister Tamar Braxton. "[1] While discussing the album's hip-hop songs, Chris Willman from Entertainment Weekly wrote that "she has sudden hip-hop pretensions, it's low-key hip-hop, the electronic throbs provides a surprisingly suitable bed for her controlled boudoir cooing. Official Charts Company, "More Than a Woman" is Aaliyah's second best-selling single in the UK behind "Try Again". The budget for the "More than a woman" video was very expensive which made Myers nervous. | Last modifications, Copyright © 2012 sensagent Corporation: Online Encyclopedia, Thesaurus, Dictionary definitions and more. Lyrically, the track expresses a female's promise to be "more than a woman" to her love interest. It was written by Static Major and Timbaland, who produced the song for her self-titled 2001 album. [11] In a review of Aaliyah's eponymous album, Luke McManus from the Irish publication RTE compared "More Than a Woman" to the work of French electronic music duo Daft Punk and praised her voice on the song as well. [4] It was described as "a quintessential Neptunes track - melodic synthesiser, staged handclaps and funky drum patterns - later transpires into an impressive slice of pop R&B. She was pulling tears out of magazines and sharing those with me, it was a little bit more of how she wanted to present herself and I built the world around her with the motorcycle and the lights and the dance". It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in late 2002. The men of Sparks on their album Hippopotamus, and how Morrissey handled it when they suggested he lighten up. But after its completion, she and several crew members who were returning to the US, died in a plane crash on August 25. [46], The video starts with a shot of West 4th Street in Los Angeles, looking towards the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Aaliyah riding a 2001 model Triumph Speed Triple in the wrong direction when the camera zooms inside the exhaust pipe and shows Aaliyah dancing in a white Chanel catsuit with other female dancers between the pistons. "More Than A Woman" is a diverse blend of danceable club numbers, trademark Braxton ballads and experimental tracks which borrow from the genres of rock and jazz. Meanwhile, in Germany the song peaked within the top 40 at number 34. [17] Joshua Clover from Spin praised the song saying, "'More Than a Woman' isn't the Bee Gees song but pushes the jumpy tune until, finally, it meets you in the doorway (or is that the dance floor or the bed room?)". The lyrics for "Mary, Did You Know?" Cinquemani stated, "If the beyond-burgeoning actress was ever approached to play a cartoon superhero, the synth-heavy “More Than a Woman,” with its millennium-ready empowerment and sensitive vocals, would make the perfect theme song for the fictional vixen (“You go, I go/’Cause we share pillows”)".