What albums bring you back over and over?

Farrah’s vocals are featured on the group’s single “Independent Women Part I” which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart following her departure.

I also think it's crazy how everything worked out with Farrah leaving the group because Charlie's Angels only featured three angels and it was perfect for Destiny's Child becoming three after Farrah leaving for the music video. I wonder what they would have done hadn't she left.

Mýa just released her 10th studio album after 8 years, Retrospect. Where Smoove Jones took on the 90s with its Quiet Storm R&B radio format and T.K.O. was more in step with contemporary R&B at the time, Retrospect looks back by drawing on Funk and Soul of the 70s with Hip-Hop flourishes (she features 5 rappers on the album).

I have played the album a few times since its release and I have a few thoughts. Firstly, everyone talks about how gorgeously Mýa’s physical beauty has aged but so has her voice. It’s richer and she deploys greater skill as heard on the record. She sounds like a grown woman and the material reflects that.

However, I found the album to be a little too, idk, beholden to the past. She does the songs well but it also makes me wonder how OLD they really are. Mýa’s always recording and has a huge vault of songs. I wonder if these are as fresh as they could have been.

Second issue: the feature list. I don’t know what’s up with R&B albums these days with EXCESSIVE features. She had good chemistry with most of them but when you get to the 5th rapper, I am like “damn, can we get another type of artist on here??” Lastly, the tracklist structure. 16 tracks, 7 features and then 3 of the last songs are solo cuts of some of the songs with features. Her last two albums were so cohesive and gave us more of HER so why bloat the new one album with all these rappers and then not include “fresh” tracks after 8 years?! For someone whose last two albums were arguably her best bodies of work (a rare feat for an artist nearly 30 years in), this follow up was a little disappointing. Not a complete one just a little meh.

I wanna know everyone’s thoughts though. I love Mýa but I have been listening to her single drops over the years and they’ve been a little dated.

The Best Male and Female Vocal Performance Grammy category is one of my favorites and I love revisiting past winners to see how well those wins have aged. Unfortunately, the category was discontinued in 2011 after the Recording Academy reshuffled the categories to reduce the number of awards handed out per year.

Though this category often boasted top shelf talent and songs, it’s limited by only 5 nominations, which meant some artists get snubbed from competing altogether. Case in point: Ginuwine with his 2001 hit, “Differences”. Written by Ginuwine and produced by Troy Oliver, it reached the summit of the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Chart in October 2001 becoming his second single to do so. It also reached an impressive position of #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It remains Ginuwine’s highest peak on this chart.

Now, on to the actual song itself. Differences is a heartfelt yet ballad dedicated to Ginwuine’s wife at the time, Solé. One thing I always loved about this song was how it was soft, fiery and hip at the same time. Women obviously loved it and men could rock to it and dedicate it to their loved ones. Ginuwine sang his face off on this track.

It was a well crafted and well received hit. So this begs the question: why wasn’t he nominated for the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Grammy for the 2002 awards? The 5 men nominated that year were:

Usher - U Remind Me (Winner)
Maxwell - Lifetime
Musiq Soulchild - Love
Brian McKnight - Love of My Life
Case - Missing You

Based on these nominees, how do you think Ginuwine stacked up against these men? Was it because of a label submission issue? Was his single released to close to the deadline? Differences came out in early August 2001. The deadline was September 30, 2001. Sound off below!

Throughout the history of the Emmy Awards, the Grammy Awards, the giving of the “Oscar” at the Academy Awards, and the Tony Awards, there have been a total of twenty-two public figures in the industries of acting, producing, directing, and composing to have won all four awards. Of those twenty-two victors, Jennifer Hudson and John Legend stand out today as the only honorees to be aligned primarily with R&B/Soul music (as of May 2026). Here is a complete timeline of all of the individual EGOT awards that both artists have won:

JENNIFER HUDSON

Jennifer Hudson became the third Black competitive EGOT winner overall in 2022, after Whoopi Goldberg (2002) and John Legend (2018), and not counting Quincy Jones after his honorary 2016 Oscar win. (It’s important to distinguish between honorary and competitive awards. Counting Quincy, Jennifer became the fourth overall Black EGOT winner.) She became the second Black woman to achieve EGOT status, and she completed it within roughly 15 years from her Oscar win to her Tony win. With her Oscar win, she also became the youngest African-American at the time to win an Academy Award in a supporting category. Jennifer Hudson’s journey to EGOT status was marked by a combination of acting, music performance, and producing.

• YEARS OF AWARD WINS ⤵️

— Emmy Awards: 2021 (Daytime)

— Grammy Awards: 2009, 2017

— Oscar (Academy) Awards: 2007

— Tony Awards: 2022

(2007) — Jennifer Hudson won her first and only Oscar at the Academy Awards. She won “Best Supporting Actress” for her debut film role as Effie White in the musical Dreamgirls.

(2009) — Jennifer Hudson won her first Grammy Award. She won “Best R&B Album” for her self-titled debut album Jennifer Hudson. The award was presented by Whitney Houston, whom is known to be one of Jennifer’s greatest idols.

(2017) — Jennifer Hudson won her second Grammy Award. She won “Best Musical Theater Album” for The Color Purple.

(2021) — Jennifer Hudson won her first and only Emmy Award. It was a Daytime Emmy in the category of “Outstanding Interactive Media for a Daytime Program”, which she won for Baba Yaga.

(2022) — Jennifer Hudson won her first and only Tony Award. She received this award in the category of “Best Musical” for A Strange Loop.

• TOTAL AWARD COUNTS ⤵️

— Emmy Awards: 1 (Daytime)

— Grammy Awards: 2

— Oscar (Academy) Awards: 1

— Tony Awards: 1

JOHN LEGEND

John Legend became the second Black competitive EGOT winner overall in 2018, after Whoopi Goldberg (2002), and not counting Quincy Jones after his honorary 2016 Oscar win. (It’s important to distinguish between honorary and competitive awards. Counting Quincy, John became the third overall Black EGOT winner.) He became the second Black man to achieve EGOT status overall—after Quincy Jones—and the first Black man to achieve EGOT status competitively. He completed the status within roughly 12 years from his first Grammy win to his first Emmy win. John Legend’s journey to EGOT status was marked by a combination of music performance, songwriting, television production, and theater production.

• YEARS OF AWARD WINS ⤵️

— Emmy Awards: 2018 (Primetime), 2019 (Daytime), 2022 (two Daytime wins this year), 2023 (Children’s and Family)

— Grammy Awards: 2006 (three wins), 2007 (two wins), 2009, 2010 (two wins), 2011, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2025

— Oscar (Academy) Awards: 2015

— Tony Awards: 2017

(2006) — John Legend won his first, second, and third Grammy Awards. He won three awards that year for “Best New Artist”, “Best R&B Album” (Get Lifted), and “Best Male R&B Vocal Performance” (“Ordinary People”).

(2007) — John Legend won his fourth and fifth Grammy Awards. He won two Grammy Awards for “Best Male R&B Vocal Performance” (“Heaven”) and “Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” (“Family Affair” with Joss Stone & Van Hunt).

(2009) — John Legend won his sixth Grammy Award. He won “Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” for “Stay with Me (By the Sea)” with Al Green.

(2010) — John Legend won his seventh and eighth Grammy Awards. He won two awards that year for “Best R&B Song” (“Shine”) and “Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance” (“Hang On In There” with The Roots).

(2011) — John Legend won his ninth Grammy Award for “Best R&B Album” for his album with The Roots, Wake Up!

(2015) — John Legend won his first and only Oscar at the Academy Awards. He won “Best Original Song” for “Glory” (with Common).

(2016) — John Legend won his tenth Grammy Award for “Best Song Written for Visual Media” (“Glory” with Common).

(2017) — John Legend won his first and only Tony Award for “Best Revival of a Play”. He won for Jitney.

(2018) — John Legend won his first and only Primetime Emmy Award. He won “Outstanding Variety Special (Live)” for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.

(2019) — John Legend won his first Daytime Emmy Award. He won “Outstanding Interactive Media for a Daytime Program” for Crow: The Legend.

(2020) — John Legend won his eleventh Grammy Award. He won “Best Rap/Sung Performance” for “Higher” with DJ Khaled & Nipsey Hussle.

(2021) — John Legend won his twelfth Grammy Award. He won “Best R&B Album” for Bigger Love.

(2022) — John Legend won his second and third Daytime Emmy Awards. He won two awards that year for “Outstanding Daytime Special” (Shelter Me: Soul Awakened) and “Outstanding Short Form Daytime Program” (Cornerstones: Founding Voices of the Black Church).

(2023) — John Legend won his first and only Children’s and Family Emmy Award. He won “Outstanding Non-Fiction Program” for 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed.

(2025) — John Legend won his thirteenth Grammy Award. He won “Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella” for “Bridge Over Troubled Water” with Jacob Collier & Tori Kelly.

• TOTAL AWARD COUNTS ⤵️

— Emmy Awards: 5 … Children’s and Family (1), Daytime (3), Primetime (1)

— Grammy Awards: 13

— Oscar (Academy) Awards: 1

— Tony Awards: 1

It was Sunday May 17th 2026 at the Antwerp, Belgium AFAS arena during "Nights Like This" tour.

He has lots of listeners and followers on Spotify and stuff, but I've never met or saw any Jason Derulo fan in real life