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MONICA GETS PERSONAL WITH NEW ALBUM: ‘Makings of Me’ deals with new maturity after hiatus filled with rumors, Young Buck and suicide.
*The three years between Monica’s last album “After the Storm” and her upcoming fourth studio LP were marked with a fair amount of pain, including the suicide of an ex-boyfriend, an emotional breakup and rumors of a pregnancy.
The 26-year-old says her recent time away from music and the drama she’s had to overcome have made her a different person – one whose newfound strength and determination is expressed in her new album “The Makings of Me,” due in stores Oct. 3.
"This album is very, very different from the other ones, because of me personally," Monica told MTV last week from the VMAs. "The first album, I was 13 years old. Now, at 26, the way I look at things, even relationships, I was really able to involve more of my life experiences in the album. …And that made for some crazy songs."
The Atlanta-born singer also spent her time away from music in a brief relationship with Young Buck, according to MTV. Whose to say if he’s the subject of a leaked track on her new album entitled, “Sideline Ho,” which sports the lyrics: "It don't matter if he spends the night, his home's somewhere else/ If you don't make his breakfast, you's a sideline ho!"
"That song has been shutting down a lot of Internet sites," Monica told MTV. "Because I talk about when I was with someone back in the day who cheated on me in the most malicious, deceptive ways. And when I referred to the chick, I always referred to her as the 'sideline ho,' because she was too comfortable with her position."
Other songs on “Makings” include the Jermaine Dupri-produced ballad "Get Away," which details Monica's 10-plus years in the industry; "Thanks for Tha Misery," written by Sean Garrett and the Missy Elliott-helmed "Dozen Roses" — slated to be the follow-up to her current single, "Everytime Tha Beat Drop." She calls the track, which samples Curtis Mayfield's "The Makings of You," her personal favorite on the album.
"I think the honesty of the record is what will hopefully help people gravitate to it," she said. "I don't want to do anything contrived. I want people to know I've been through the same situations as them and that's why I share so many of my personal experiences. In the process, I've still been able to live my dreams, and I want people to see that side of it.
"I look back over the past decade of my life," she added, "and I took everything — the good and the bad — and really made a musical diary."
