"It's About Time" (1992): SWV - Era Review | Diva Discography {Part 2}

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English - August 03, 2022 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
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Welcome back to PART 2 of our SWV “It’s About Time” journey. In this episode, Angie and Steffi break down the era!

In our Era Breakdown episodes, we touch on so many topics like career context, controversies/scandals of the era, marketing, music videos, live performances, album stats, and the album & era’s ultimate impact and legacy. For this episode, we discuss SWV’s faulty contract and (yet again) how one particular member was more or less pushed as the lead of the group which caused major tension within SWV. We also talk about Michael Jackson’s generosity, the confusing chaos of SWV’s music videos, and two of our favorite live performances. And as per usual, we end the episode reflecting on the ultimate impact that the SWV’s’ “It’s About Time” had in music and the girl group pantheon.

Again, this is part 2 of the conversation! So make sure you listen to part 1 where we discussed the album track by track.

We hope you enjoyed our SWV “It’s About Time” journey!

Album Info: It's About Time is the debut studio album by American female R&B trio SWV. It was released by RCA Records on October 27, 1992, in the United States. It earned 11 Billboard Music Award nominations and became the 16th best-selling album of 1993 in the United States, with 2,100,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. It also earned SWV a nomination for Best New Artist at the 36th Grammy Awards. In 1996, It's About Time was certified 3× platinum, for shipping over 3,000,000 albums in the US alone. The album spawned five hit singles with "I'm So into You", "Downtown", "Weak", a remixed version of "Right Here/Human Nature" (the latter two reached number one on the R&B singles chart, with "Weak" being their biggest and only number-one pop hit), and "You're Always on My Mind" (shortened to "Always on My Mind" for single release). A remixed version of "Anything" appeared on the soundtrack of the film Above the Rim in 1994 and was released as the final single from It's About Time.

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