Friday, May 20, 2022

Brandy - Supreme (2009)

Immediately after the release of 'Human', Brandy began recording songs for a proposed sixth album, to be titled 'Supreme'. It would have been her second album to be released on the Epic Records label, with a release date of sometime in 2010 if she had finished the project, but due to the poor promotion and lackluster performance of 'Human', as well as it seeming as if no one shared her vision musically, she ended her management with Roc Nation in mid-2009 and went on to leave Epic Records. Despite the fact that a number of songs had been recorded with Tricky Stewart, Ne-Yo and StarGate, the album remained unfinished and consequently unreleased. In April 2010 she returned to the small screen in the VH1 reality series 'Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business', along with their parents, in a show which chronicled the backstage lives of both siblings, while taking on larger roles in their family's management and production company, R&B Productions. The season concluded after eleven episodes, and was renewed for a second season, which began broadcasting in late 2010, and a compilation album called 'A Family Business', which included previously unreleased content from the entire cast, was released on Saguaro Road Records in June 2011. While the second season of her TV show was airing, she also appeared as a contestant on season 11 of the ABC reality show 'Dancing With The Stars', partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. She ultimately placed fourth in the competition, which was a shock to the judges, viewers, studio audience, and other contestants that considered her one of the show's front-runners throughout the entire competition. In August 2011, it was confirmed that she had signed a joint record deal with RCA Records and producer Breyon Prescott's Chameleon Records, and she resumed her music career with the release of two albums, while carrying on her TV and film career, joining the comedy series 'The Game' in 2011, and starring in the sitcom 'Zoe Ever After' in 2016, as well as appearing in Tyler Perry's 2013 movie 'Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor'. After finishing the filming of the final season of 'The Game' in 2015 she made her Broadway debut in the musical 'Chicago', in which she played the lead role of Roxie Hart. Despite regaining a recording contract in 2011, she didn't re-visit the songs that she'd recorded for 'Supreme', instead recording new material for her 2012 album 'Two Eleven', so here is what could have been the follow-up to 'Human', had that album performed a little better, and she hadn't left Epic Records as a result of its poor sales.



Track listing

01 Good Night Good Morning 
02 Slow Love 
03 I Don't Really Care
04 Stupid In Love
05 Louboutins
06 Betcha Didn’t Know
07 Supreme 
08 I'm Right Here
09 This Song (I Can't Wait)
10 Decisions (feat. Ne-Yo)
11 Between Me And You
12 Romeo And Juliet
13 Too Little Too Late
14 Fear Of Flying

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