MYA. - Review - sound recording review

Interview, April, 2000 by Evelyn Mcdonnell

Fear of Flying (Interscope)

For her second album, Mya's Midas touch lured a bevy of hit-making producers, who dig through their bag of tricks in a fifteen-track display of bigwillie virtuosity. Picks: her girls-night-out celebration with TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, "Takin' Me Over" (produced by Robin Thicke); the bumping Destiny's Child--esque "Ride and Shake" (Dent); and the sweet-sounding but sista-hating "Girls Like That" (Swizz Beatz). Still, beyond all the beats and beeps, is there any there there? Tired infidelity laments don't live up to the album title's literary promise, and while Mya can be Minnie Ripperton, she often ends up mini-dwarfed by her surroundings.