Album: Dru Hill (Island)
Songwriters: Darryl Simmons
Hit #1: August 9th, 1997 (4 Weeks)
Sisqo may have been the Dru Hill member that eyes gravitated to the most, what with his ever-changing 'do, neck-tightening cries and one-handed cartwheels, but the quartet carried another fine vocalist in the husky Jazz (still not sure what requisite pretty-boy Nokio really did), who took lead duties for the group's second #1, "Never Make A Promise".
Contemporary R&B at it's most slickest, "Never Make A Promise" registered as a wide-eyed love ballad in which Jazz discovers true love for the first time. Light on musical flashiness, the track was ideal talent show fodder, stating it's purpose and little else. Jazz' performance can be considered a bit colorless and predictable, but had Sisqo (over-)performed it, it would've morphed into this needlessly gritty testimonial that would have completely ignored the song's tender sincerity.
The track might not have been that heavy, but Dru Hill made up for it with a father/ daughter sexual abuse-focused music video.
DL: "Never Make A Promise" (YFH)
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