The album has a careful balance between mature ballads (which bar the over the top I Refuse never get too melodramatic) and more up tempo tracks (like the Latin flavoured Read Between The Lines). The only complaint I can think of is that Aaliyah should be allowed to space out a bit more, the brilliant It's Whatever is the kind of song she should sing more of, with it's blissful jazzy piano sample moving things forward. Or even more radical: the intro of I Can Be which consists of Aaliyah's multi-tracked sighs and murmurs but is frustratingly cut off. One hopes Aaliyah on her next album goes full-out into the future with more of these wordless washes, a heaven of voices. Until then Aaliyah is the way forward for 21st century soul music, where sensuality, innovation and style meet.