So Plush was a female R&B group from Los Angeles, California that consisted of Rhonda Roussel, Raquel Campbell, Donielle Carter and T.J. Lottie, and who formed while they were still in high school. In 1998, their manager John Atterberry introduced them to music producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins who signed them to his record label, but before releasing any music for him they moved to Epic Records in 1999 and released their debut single 'Damn (Should've Treated U Right)' featuring rapper Ja Rule. The single peaked at #41 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart, staying on the chart for 19 weeks, and it was later included on the soundtrack to the 1999 Martin Lawrence film 'Blue Streak'. The band was also featured on the soundtrack to the 1998 film 'Pokémon: The First Movie', performing on 'It Was You' with Ashley Ballard, but a year later, their follow-up single 'Things I've Heard Before' failed to make any impact on the charts, and so their debut album was cancelled by Epic, even though advanced and promotional copies of it had already been circulated, and following this rejection, the band broke up. As so often happens in cases like this, where the intransigence of a record company can destroy a band, the album sounds perfectly fine to me, and given the right breaks it could have been a success, but I guess we'll never know. Instead we can listen to it now, 20 years later, and imagine what could have been had it come out in 2001.
Track listing
01 What You Do To Me
02 Things I Heard Before
03 It Ain't My Fault
04 Yes
05 He Loves Me
06 The Fact That You Lied
07 You Don't Know Me
08 Broke The Rules (feat. Da Brat)
09 Fire Burns (feat. Keith Sweat)
10 More Than Life
11 Time Is Up
12 No One Else
13 Skit
14 Hatin' On Me
15 Damn (Shoulda Treated You Right) (feat. Ja Rule)
16 It Was You (feat. Ashley Ballard)
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