Today's Pick

Brandy finds true love that's too good to be true in just released new music video for her heartfelt ballad, "Wildest Dreams," the second cut lifted from her latest sixth studio album, "Two Eleven." We're fully thrilled that the 32-year-old R&B songstress is back on the scene and adding fuel to the fire. She's first reemerged with her Chris Brown-assisted "Put It Down," and now she's let us into her inner-psyche via her latest jam, "Wildest Dreams."
"Wildest Dreams" is a mid-tempo classic R&B ballad with a laidback tone, which was inspired by R&B music from the 1990s and has lyrically which speak about the disbelief for finding love again. Brandy said that the song was inspired by newfound love with her real-life boyfriend Ryan Press. The song focuses on falling in love and it feeling better than one could have imagined. During the course of the song, vulnerable Brandy mentions herself several times, over the thwacking percussion and production.
"Wildest Dreams" is one of the album's highlights, and it manages to be both strong and vulnerable at the same time, something that could also be said about the album as a whole. The track kicking off with a hard-knocking throwback beat, the opening seconds pit two familiar Brandys against each other - an ethereal flurry of stacked harmonies against a robotic delivery reminiscent of her style on 2002's futuristic-sounding "Full Moon," with a raw, almost abrasive rasp in her lush vocals, complemented by a needle-on-vinyl crackle looped in the background.
The video was directed by Matthew Rolston, and did not really match the song as there was no concept to it whatsoever. And it shows as Brandy glows in her stylish. She brings a few friends along, struts around and shows off her new dances moves performing at an abandoned warehouse in L.A. with some of her fans in the audience. While Brandy clearly had fun shooting the visual, it would have been nice to see her channeling how happy she is in her new relationship and seeing how in love she is.

Brandy is well on her way back onto the music scene with her newly released sleek and futuristic clip for the catchy enough jam, "Put It Down," featuring fellow R&B singer Chris Brown, serve as the lead single off of her upcoming sixth studio album, "Two Eleven," set to be released October 16, and it is the first comeback album since 2008's "Human."
It is an up-tempo R&B song featuring tinny percussion and canned claps. Lyrically, it features Brandy complementing a prospective beau on his swag. Later, Brown adopts a Nicki Minaj-like vocal delivery and jumps on with a Hip-Hop-inspired verse. Brandy swaggers like we haven't heard her swagger before, matching the beats boldness with smooth yet forceful lines. She has always had a firework for a voice, and earned a killer single to put it to use. The single is straight out of the US R&B factory.
"It's called 'Put It Down,' but I like to call it 'Fall in Love,'" the 33-year-old told The Boombox. "But no one else likes that title. It's so new and so fresh. It's just a different vibe. It's R&B meets Hip-Hop and it's edgy and gritty, but it's about love, which is something we all want to experience and stay in love. I want to stay in love." The song is simple in its message, in the sense it is a bit of a love song, and Brandy does well, so we hope this comeback to relevancy works out for her.
Brandy takes it back to the old school, bringing modern art to the streets and rocking her signature braids from her "Sittin Up in My Room" days in this Hype Williams-directed vibrant video. The "Long Distance" songstress and Brown are seen flirting with each other while singing their respective vocal flavor on the hood of a white Ferrari, show off their moves together, get a little closer than expected and embrace their colorful surroundings switch from a dark night to a paint-splattered colorful wall.

Fourteen years after topping the charts with their Grammy-winning hit "The Boy Is Mine," Brandy and Monica are back and better than ever in the Chris Robinson-directed video for "It All Belongs to Me," is written and produced by Rico Love and will appear on Monica's upcoming seventh album "New Life," due April 10, and Brandy's RCA debut "Two Eleven," coming this June. The song shows the stronger and much more adult versions of them, with Brandy keeping the track measured and Monica hitting the high notes as always.
Musically, "It All Belongs to Me" is a midtempo R&B ballad that draws influences from pop music. Lyrically, the song is a female empowerment anthem in which both singers claims their belongings as they leave their abusive boyfriends behind. Rico Love told Rap-Up.com the collaboration was originally Monica's idea, and he set out to pen a hit single for the two R&B femmes. "It's a very soulful R&B song with pop sensibilities," he said. It marked the first pairing of the two '90s R&B hitmakers since the then-teenage duo's 1998 mammoth hit single "The Boy Is Mine."
The fierce females were back in black as they reclaimed their pricey possessions from their exes. But unlike the first time around, there was nothing but love between the co-stars. "This business is all about competition. They forgot about what is the most important, which is two talents coming together," said Brandy. "It's just great to come back and do something with [Monica]. This is definitely a blessing." "It is not anything like 'The Boy Is Mine,'" Monica added. "At this point, this is where you're taking your power back and we gon' come together. This is totally different than that era and I hope it speaks to all the people who are making diss tracks and going hard on each other. Come together and watch the numbers move."
Filmed at a luxurious house in the Los Angeles area, the two starlets are decked out in black leather in the new 'explosive' clip, dedicated to the memory of their mentor Whitney Houston, which was inspired by the films "Thelma & Louise" (1991) and "Waiting to Exhale" (1995), and portrays the singers in dysfunctional relationships and helping in both situations. They're no longer the feuding teenagers from the '90s. The divas join forces to kick their no-good men to the curb, reclaiming their pricey possessions including cars, clothes, and computers.

Brandy was born into a musical family in Mississippi on February 11, 1979. She is one of the most successful of the new breed of urban R&B female vocalists. "Long Distance" is a song from her 5th studio album, "Human" in 2008. The lyrics of the ballad deal with the protagonist's difficulties of a long-distance relationship.Although a music video for the song was actually expected to be shot by Norwegian director Ray Kay in the week October 20, a clip for "Long Distance" was eventually filmed by Chris "C-Rob" Robinson on November 6 in LA, who wants to depict his vision of taking Brandy "through the feeling of missing the person she's in love with." The music video premiered on Perez Hilton today.
My all time favorite: "Human", "Right Here Departed", "The Definition", "True" and "A Capella Somethings Missing". Check her Official Site and MySpace for more.