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The Name Is Omarion Not Omicron
The forgotten singer’s quest for clarity and attention, in these perilous times.
The R&B boy bands in the 90s had us completely spoiled for choice; we had Boyz II Men, Jodeci, Backstreet boys, New Kids on the block, Guy, Blackstreet and New Edition. These guys were telegenic, they could sing, they had the ladies swooning and guys like me wanted to be like them.
The generation of boy bands which emerged in the 00s weren’t quite as memorable and qualitative. Among them were the ones that had Justin Timberlake and from the black side — B2K and Pretty Ricky.
Compared to their forebears in the 1990s, B2K was as distinctly mediocre as it got; and it certainly didn’t help that the biggest star of the group had neither the pipes nor the presence to match the Bobby Browns, Johnny Gills, Ralph Tresvants, Aaron Halls and Wanya Morrises of this world.
What is his name?
Omarion.
As with every one of the middling acts of the noughties, B2K disappeared as quickly as they came and Omarion’s solo career failed to make any dent whatsoever in the world of music, despite working with some of the finest producers in the game.
And so it came as a bit of a surprise this week, when our man released a video claiming that he has been on the receiving end of…