Album Review: Still Standing

Monica's 6th Album is Titled Still Standing.

  This album is the culmination of hours of hard work and personal sacrifice!

Production was handled by Dallas Austin, Johnta Austin, Babyface, Drumma Boy, Bryan-Michael Cox, Jermaine Dupri, Missy, J Ferrari, Sean Garrett, Jazze Pha, Ne-Yo, Pollow Da Don, Ester Dean and a few others.

Monica worked on hundreds of songs with these producers.

In an interview she stated:

"I am going back to where I started. The next album I would like people to get more songs like "Why I love you so much," "Angel of Mine," or the things they really, really love from me." And that she did!

Originally titled Lessons Learned Monica decided to change the project recently as she felt that Still Standing was more appropriate for the body of work that she and Bryan-Michael Cox pulled off.

Monica provides a new spin on an old school classic. Unlike the original, which finds a heartbroken and disheveled woman realizing her stupidity at the hands of an uninterested lover, “Everything to Me” illustrates the happiness in finding true love. Songs following the same pattern include “Love All Over Me,” and “Superman.”

The album continuously straddles the lines between the good, bad and ugly of relationships but isn’t sappy where one may expect that it would be. She admits wrongdoing in “One In A Lifetime,” but then flips over and resiliently steps out of a bad relationship by way of “Stay or Go” and “Here I Am.”

Track Listing 
1. Still Standing (Feat. Ludacris)
2. One in a lifetime
3. Stay or Go
4. Everything to me (Single)
5. If I were you're man
6. Mirror
7. Here I am
8. Superman
9. Love all over me
10. Believing in me


My Top Picks
"Everything To me," "If I were your Girl," "Love All Over Me" & "One in a Lifetime"


Source: iTUNES, Concrete Loop