666 Watch: Aaliyah (1979-2001)

I'm well aware that the young R&B songstress Aaliyah left the mortal plane over two decades ago.  More specifically, she died in 2001 at the too-soon age of 22.  But in the entertainment field and the music industry especially, it can take people an indefinite amount of time to move on from an unexpected death.

Aaliyah was also one of, if not the first (and only?) pure-R&B singer to fully break into Hollywood, i.e. the mainstream movie industry.  It's somewhat common for rappers to successfully take up acting, but not so much R&B singers.

A musician being featured in a movie is one thing.  But actually starring in one that's mainstream denotes that said individual has actual acting talent and is not there just because of their celebrity.  And so it was with Aaliyah.  It isn't unrealistic to speculate that if she had lived on, her all-around career would have at least been on par with what Jennifer Lopez has become.

THE "QUEEN OF THE DAMNED"

Around the time Aaliyah died, she was concurrently in the process of filming what proved to be her last movie, Queen of the Damned (2002).  Therein, she portrays a character, "Akasha", whom Wikipedia describes as "the progenitor of all vampires".

I've never seen the film and likely never will.  But I think it's safe to presume that Aaliyah probably thought she had a lot more time on this Earth before taking on that role.  That's to say that, if you believe in the immortal soul, you probably wouldn't want to die at the time you're employed in portraying a wicked, demonic character.

FICTION CAN SPIRITUALLY TRANSLATE INTO REAL LIFE(?)

I once met this Jamaican lady who was a personal friend of Bob Marley.  She told me she objected, to him personally and directly, with the way he chose to be portrayed on the cover of Uprising (1980), appearing as if Bob is bursting from the earth, as if he were dead and buried.

This lady is old school, i.e. being born circa the early-to-mid 20th century.  And I know that some people from that generation, especially Black people if you will, don't play around when it comes to portraying yourself dead and things of the such.  They believe that toying with such matters can result in associated real-life consequences, like actually cursing yourself dead.

I don't necessarily believe that.  But again, it's messed up, or perhaps some would say ironic or karmic, the way Aaliyah unexpectedly died shortly after taking on that role.  It was shocking at the time to see her star in a graphic, erotic horror movie as the antagonist/demon to begin with.  That's not the type of role usually reserved for a woman in her early 20s.  And by the way, Uprising did in fact prove the be the last album Bob Marley dropped while he was still alive, as he indeed proceeded to pass away the following year.

AALIYAH GET HER OWN (POSTHUMOUS) BARBIE DOLL

With that in mind, take a look at the picture of Aaliyah above.  It's the featured image from an article Billboard posted about a week ago, announcing that the songstress, some 25 years after her death, is getting her own Barbie doll, i.e. one made in her likeness.  And the first question that comes to mind is, out of all the pictures of Aaliyah out there, why did Billboard use that one, where she's holding up the 666 hand sign?  Perhaps they want to reiterate that she did in fact choose her allegiance, so to speak, before leaving the mortal plane.

Secondly, why is the "Barbie Signature Aaliyah Collectible Doll" dressed in all black?  Isn't that the symbolic color of death anyway?  And look at the doll's packaging.  It almost appears as if there are images of trapped souls if you will, in the reddish, i.e. hellish, background. Perhaps Billboard and Barbie and co. also want to remind us that the songstress was/is the "queen of the damned".

Indeed, one must beg the question as to why they chose to make an Aaliyah doll to begin with.  It isn't common for a Barbie to be fashioned after the likeness of an actual person, and a celebrity getting her own doll is considered to be an utmost honor, like having your own signature McDonald's meal or something.  There are other female celebrities who are more famous than Aaliyah ever was, yet they haven't gotten their own dolls.  A Nicki Minaj Barbie came out a few years ago, but that was when she was at the peak of her fame, not like dead and gone.

CONCLUSION

One conspiracy theory, so to speak, that I have concerning the music industry is that it takes care of its own.  The top Luciferians are not only given a favored position in life but also after they pass away.  That's one of the reasons I believe Hollywood recently had that trend of featuring old, obsolete songs in popular movies.

To note, the Aaliyah doll is part of the "Barbie Music Collector Series", in which they fashioned dolls out of the respective likenesses of a number of famous musicians.  A couple of others who made the list, such as Tina Turner and Elvis Presley, are also dead.  I didn't know that when I started writing this post, but that does not negate the queries highlighted above. 

Understandably, Aaliyah was less accomplished than any of the other musicians on the list.  And I'm not trying to diss her legacy or what she's accomplished.  Aaliyah was one of my favorite musicians back when she was alive.  I still dig a couple of the action movies she co-starred in, and Are You That Somebody (1998) is one of the illest music videos ever.  But I'm not exactly sure what type of message is being sent with this particular posthumous honor and depiction.