Release Date: July 14 1998
| Monica | Street Symphony |
| Monica | The Boy Is Mine |
| Monica | Ring Da Bell |
| Monica | The First Night |
| Monica | Misty Blue |
| Monica | Angel of Mine |
| Monica | Gone Be Fine |
| Monica | Inside |
| Monica | Take Him Back |
| Monica | Right Here Waiting (Feat. 112) |
| Monica | Cross The Room |
| Monica | I Keep To Myself |
| Monica | For You I Will |
Review
Monica -- whose cat fight with fellow high school
R&B diva Brandy, "The Boy Is Mine," hit Number One -- shuns the frightful
slow-jam genre so popular among her schoolmates. Instead the seventeen-year-old
music-biz veteran has chosen a more classic path, with help from the cool
hand of producer (and fellow Atlantan) Dallas Austin. The songs on her
titled-for-maximum-name-recognition The Boy Is Mine hearken back past hip-hop
songbirds like Mary J. Blige and adult-contemporary sirens like Toni Braxton
to someplace closer to soul's source. Starting with the baroque strings
of "Street Symphony" and continuing with the sweet "Angel of Mine" and
the discoish " 'Cross the Room," Monica uses her honey-dipped, church-worthy
voice to lift her radio-friendly tunes -- and, hopefully, the rest of contemporary
R&B -- to a higher plane.