You have got to be over twenty-five to remember this sista. Adina Howard burst onto the R n’ B scene in the mid nineties as a sexed up version of Janet Jackson. Complete with hot pants and the sexiest group of female back up dancers you have ever scene, Adina dominated the summer on 95′ with hits like My Up And Down and Freak Like Me. Adina’s first album Do You Wanna Ride was a certified hit and has sold 1.3 million copies to date. Unfortunately, like a lot of nineties acts, (En Vogue, Jade, Monifah) Adina’s career was short lived. Her second album, Welcome To Fantasy Island was shelved by her record label after they decided it contained no radio friendly singles. Undeterred, Adina has continued to record music and even collaborated with Jamie Foxx on his first CD.
Today, Adina is still looking to break back into the business and last I heard had an album titled The Private Show scheduled to be released sometime this year. And though Adina’s sexed up image didn’t quite fit my tastes then or now, I find her honesty refreshing. Not much has changed about her over years as she continues to sing the same type of songs and project the same type of image. She is a real artist- real to herself that is and that is a rarity today within the female music scene.
With so many female acts being pre-packaged, corporate backed Barbie dolls, I find myself longing for when sistas could just be who they were- good or bad, sexy or innocent. Adina was a bad girl and she was so good at it. Check the sista out below doing what she did best.
Freak Like Me
Here is Adina’s last known music video, Nasty Grind .
Adina was so nasty. I couldn’t watch her videos without cringing. I do remember the year this song came out though and it was the jam.I miss those feel good times :dance2:
Adina didn’t sing about anything of importance but at least she could sing. That right there puts her above a lot of singer today.Oh and her body in Nasty Grind is like whoa!
There was no pretense with her. She was a freak who didn’t pretend to be anything else. I loved Nasty Grind but by the time it was released her time had come and gone. I remember BET playing the video early in the morning but never heard it on the radio.At the time the video was being compared to D-Angelo’s How Does It Feel.Adina has clearly been working out and her body was beautiful.Her stage shows were crazy and yep she could sing.I prefer her to Ashanti, Rihanna and even Beyonce.She just let it all out when she performed :booty:
Adina Howard was as nasty as they came. How can you all be against the girls of today but back this woman who used her microphone as a penis on stage? How is she better than Rihanna or Beyonce? They don’t do that on stage and Rihanna is for sure a better role model to young girls.You all really contradict yourselves sometimes.
“Freak Like Me” and “T-Shirt and Panties” were my jams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yes, they are not under-18, age-friendly, but that’s all good ‘coz I wasn’t under 18 when she was out. LOL. She did have a good voice and I enjoyed her slow jams….sure, they were kinda racey, but she sang for grown folks, not chillens. :wink:
Yep, I remember Adina – and yes I remember her lyrics. That girl took ‘freak’ to a whole different level. But I agree she did her own thing and set herself apart from the others in the industry at that time.
That girl was filthy. She probably messed with Jamie Foxx :lol:
Liyah – you know ‘freak like me’ was the jam back in 1995! :lol:, I was loving that song on the dance floor! :dance2:
Freak Like Me and T-shirt and Panties was my joint back in the day. I still jam to it when it comes on the radio and it wasn’t that long ago when it they were out. Adina Howard was indeed the Bonafide Freak and Lil Kim said that’s who ahe got her inspriration from. What a role model and she is not to be compared to Rihanna or Beyonce.
she was so nasty and obscene. All she promoted was sex, sex, sex. And no she is not better than the females that are out today.
What exactly is Beyonce promoting? She is known for sex she just tries to distance herself from it by claiming it isn’t really her but some other woman named Sasha who is gyration on stage and giving us crotch shots and if the beautiful liar video isn’t all about sex I don’t know what is.
Adina was all types of wrong :lol:
She was a nasty little thing but I still loved her music. Her songs were definitely for the adults which she was and I was.
She put her cards on the table and I definitely prefer that to fakes out here today who use sex to their advantage, all nekkid up in the magazines and in the videos but claim to be little angels.
She sings and look better than Rihanna and Cassie put together and definitely made better songs. I wish we had more sisters like her than those on the radio now.
Adina’s music is definitely for the grown and unabashed. That’s the s*** you listen to behind closed doors. She’s a beautiful sista with a beautiful body :brownsista:
thank you lord adina’s back!
^^^Look how ya’ll contradict yourselves. Don’t even start talking about how some music can be poisonous and demoralizing. Or how hip hop’s rappers downgrade women in their videos when you have women that portray themselves as sex objects and sex symbols. Oh yes the perfect role model for young girls. When you are in the spotlight and you have the power to influence masses of people through the medium of art you have to be responsible and tasetful, yes music is a reflection of artistic expression, but some take it to the extreme.
[quote comment="6404"]^^^Look how ya’ll contradict yourselves. Don’t even start talking about how some music can be poisonous and demoralizing. Or how hip hop’s rappers downgrade women in their videos when you have women that portray themselves as sex objects and sex symbols. Oh yes the perfect role model for young girls. When you are in the spotlight and you have the power to influence masses of people through the medium of art you have to be responsible and tasetful, yes music is a reflection of artistic expression, but some take it to the extreme.[/quote]
Everything ain’t about the kids.Every piece of music made shouldn’t have to be kid friendly. Adina was a grown woman making grown woman music.I also think her frankness is what some also find refreshing.Artists today are selling sex like never before with their skimpy putfits, naked vieos and magazine spreads.I’m sure Adina would be doing the same but she wouldn’t be hopping and skipping around it.She wouldn’t be claiming it was her alter ego or some other force of nature that made her do it.Adina was Adina like Millie Jackson was Millie Jackson.Freaky and all I still prefer them to many of the vapid acts out today.
EN VOGUE WAS NOT A WASHED UP GROUP. IN FACT, THEY ARE STILL PERFORMING TOGETHER.
Who said En Vogue was washed up? People need to read before they start blasting folks.
I hope she don’t have any diseases. After all that sexin she talkin bout…
That is one od the dumbest comments ever made on this blog. Have you even known anyone to have a disease from talking or singing about erotica? Why must Black women always sink to the lowest level to degrade another woman?