Some of you people are so simple. I'm a Beyonce fan, but the way her name infests every fucking post on this blog is ridiculous. Beyonce didn't kill anyone's career (and Rihanna sure as hell didn't.) If someone wasn't able to maintain their career, it's their own fault.

As for Mya...

The truth is that she was never "necessary" to begin with. Everything about Mya: the music, the videos, the promotion always felt "cheap". I saw the scene as being Aaliyah-Brandy-Monica. Mya was always 1 too many. She can dance her ass off, but her singing voice was bad and her songs were -- again -- cheap. She got the little bit of shine that she did because she came out with Sisqo/Dru Hill (who were popular at the time) and then rode the wave of that late 90s teen R&B girl scene. But she was never at the top of her game, was never amongst the most notable, and always had paltry management. She, like I said, just rode a wave of the times...but when that wave eventually died, that was it for her. Plain and simple.

Had nothing to do with "product" vs. "promotion" or Beyonce. Mya was never a star in her own rite; she was just "another one."