Ahead of its 20th anniversary, OfficialSisQo recounts the stories behind every track on UnleashTheDragon and explains how the record helped shape the current landscape of R&B
Along with his music, the singer's silver-dyed hair, provocative outfits and navel tattoo ignited Y2K fashion trends. "When you look at millennial artists, they're not afraid to be themselves and expressive,” he says. “I like to believe that myself, along with Missy Elliott, helped to bump the norm."Unleash The DragonThe whole dragon motif was something I brought from Dru Hill. We were in Chinatown for the photoshoot for our first album.
soundtrack. So I was flattered and honored that he was willing to work with me on my album. He first wanted to hear where the record was going so he could figure out where he wanted to be. He said, "You are on to something! This is nothing like what y'all have done before. I think you're about to hit the next level in your career."
Then everybody just started leaving the room -- it was like they were on a pilgrimage to find this thing called a thong. So I'm making the album, and producers [Tim Kelley and Bob Robinson] sent me a CD with like 20 songs. At the end, there was this sample of [The Beatles’ 1966 song “Eleanor Rigby”] that was about 30 seconds. I called them back saying I needed to stretch that sample into three minutes.
Originally, [critics] said "Thong Song" was a novelty song and that was the only reason why it worked. They literally dismissed the musicality of the record and saw it as a gimmick. I was trying to come up with something for the second verse, and I thought it would really dope to sing it exactly like the first, just in a different octave.
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