Monica voelt zich aan de kant gezet: “I’m really the most forgotten”

Rond de eeuwwisseling was Monica één van de grootste namen in de R&B muziek. Maar de zangeres heeft het gevoel dat niemand haar meer kent. “I’m really the most forgotten.”

Tijdens een gesprek met Uninterrupted’s The Shop, bespreekt ze haar gevoel. “What I learned in those moments is that there’s a plan for all of our lives,” zei ze. “It’s orchestrated by somebody bigger than every person in this room. What was meant to happen was for my life to change that day. And I was able to really enjoy my career because I didn’t have any expectations.”

Monica maakte zich in die tijd echter nooit druk om haar carriere. “I was not looking at stats, I was not worried about awards,” gaat ze verder. “I’m actually a person that, for all the records that I’ve broken, I really have never won any awards. I’m really the most forgotten. If you think about it, I’m pretty much the underdog, but I sit very comfortably in it. Because I can still go where I want, do what I want, live how I want.”

De zangeres had grote hits op haar naam staan, waaronder ‘The Boy Is Mine’ met Brandy uit 1998.

“But when I say that I am often forgotten, I was hosting the Soul Train Awards! Was nominated for five, three of my songs in one category, and still lost. But I went out to eat and kick my regular shit after! I was not bothered because that’s not what I do it for. That is really my point when I say that, often times, I’m forgotten in those spaces.”

Monica voelt zich aan de kant gezet: “I’m really the most forgotten”.