Aaliyah

She described the relationship between her and Kelly as "rather close." In December 1994, she told the Chicago Sun-Times that whenever she was asked about being married to Kelly, she urged them not to believe "all that mess" and that she and Kelly were "close" but that "people took it the wrong way".

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== Personal life == In a 1995 interview with Honey, Aaliyah stated that she was Catholic and attended church whenever she was at home.

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The marriage was annulled by her parents in February 1995, but the pair denied the allegations, saying that neither was married and that the certificate was a forgery.

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The only time she had a hand in writing was on the song "Death of a Playa" from the 1997 single "Hot Like Fire".

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In May 1997, she filed suit in Cook County seeking to have all records of the marriage expunged because she was not old enough under state law to get married without her parents' consent.

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Jay-Z mentioned Aaliyah and Dash in a remix of her song "Miss You", released in 2003.

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Also in 2003, the Entertainment Industry Foundation created the Aaliyah Memorial Fund in her memory to donate money raised to charities she supported.

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Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times called her "a digital diva who wove a spell with ones and zeroes", and writes that her songs comprised "simple vocal riffs, repeated and refracted to echo the manipulated loops that create digital rhythm", as Timbaland's "computer-programmed beats fitted perfectly with her cool, breathy voice to create a new kind of electronic music." In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Keith Harris said of Aaliyah's lyrical content that "when it came to sexual availability, she was between En Vogue maliciously taunting 'You're never gonna get it' and Tweet blankly cooing 'Oops, there goes my shirt.'" Lyrically, "her first two albums carefully toed the line between adolescence and adulthood, displaying a woman exploring the terrain of love, trust, and lust; one who exuded a playful innocence while hinting at a more sultry side." She did not usually write her own lyrics.

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=== 2015–present: Merchandise, catalog rerelease, and Unstoppable === In May 2015, Aaliyah was featured on the Tink track "Million", which contained samples from her song "One in a Million".

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