That experience informed the soothingly therapeutic, dusty-grooved sound and new-leaf narratives of 2003’s After the Storm, where her old-school influences received a 21st-century future-soul makeover from a team of producers that included Missy Elliott and a budding Kanye West. Oh baby You mean the world and everything that I want for Since Ive been your girl Oh my whole life has been much better than ever before You got a tender sweet love, yes you do That weakens me and takes over me whenever we touch Baby thats just, why I love you so much Baby thats just, why I cant get enough Baby thats just why I love you so much I love only you. So in love with you like a drug habit get. But at the height of her success, Monica was waylaid by tragedy, when she bore witness to the gunshot suicide of an ex-boyfriend in 2000. Lyrics and video for the song So Gone by Monica - Songfacts. Monica’s soulful poise made her the perfect femme fatale to square off against Brandy’s woman scorned on the pre-eminent R&B cage match of 1998, “The Boy Is Mine,” and Monica’s multiplatinum album of the same name further mined the song’s tension between emotionally charged lyrics and sophisticated symphonic production. But even as her 1995 debut, Miss Thing, heralded the Atlanta native’s graduation from the church to the club-making her the youngest artist ever to top the Billboard R&B charts with two consecutive singles-those gospel roots were never far from the surface.
Like her peers Brandy and Aaliyah, Monica (born Monica Denise Arnold in 1980) was a former choir kid who blossomed into a bona fide R&B teen queen.