Aaliyah—“One in a Million”

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Rob explores R&B sensation Aaliyah’s hit single “One in a Million” by discussing her meteoric rise to pop stardom at an early age, her innovative musical style, and her legacy. This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Kelefa Sanneh Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The less we know, the better sometimes.
0:03.3	It's better for us.
0:04.7	And so let's indulge ourselves by imagining that we can see her for the first time the way Jet Lee saw her for the first time.
0:14.7	In the movie, in the movie, Romeo Must Die.
0:17.0	Came out in 2000 action movie.
0:19.4	Stars Jet Lee.
0:20.2	He doesn't die. Spoiler alert. Sorry. That's obnoxious. I don't know why I... I'm taking my frivolity where I can get it here. Sorry. He doesn't die. 21 year old movie. Spoiler alert. Okay. So imagine your Jet Lee, who lives in Romeo Must Die.
0:38.3	Action movie, Shakespearean framework to warring crime families in Fair Oakland, where we lay our scene, mostly filmed in San Francisco.
0:48.5	Damn it.
0:48.9	Lots of guns, lots of kicking ass.
0:50.6	You're Jetli who's in prison in China, and you hear that your brother got murders, so you kick a bunch of ass and break out of prison and zoot out to quote unquote Oakland to seek revenge?
0:57.8	You got this cool special effect going where when you kick dudes asses, it zooms in on x-rays of their
1:04.8	skeletons as you break their arms and whatnot is pretty rad for the year 2000, I saw this movie in the theater. I thought it was
1:11.8	dope. So now you're in Oakland. You hotwire a cab. You're about to go seek revenge. But before you
1:16.4	can drive off, she hops into the backseat of the cab. Total stranger. Never seen her before.
1:22.8	No context. Blank slate. So this being an action movie, you flirt with her, and she flirts with you.
1:30.3	You must be a very dangerous man.
1:33.3	Are you scared?
1:35.3	Nah, I don't take this personal, but I've been around a lot more dangerous guys than you.
1:41.3	It's Aaliyah.
1:43.3	Alia is in your cap.
1:45.1	Jet Lee's character isn't named Jet Lee, and Alia's character isn't named Alia, although
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