9. Ciara
How you remember her: Ciara, after breaking apart from her band Hearsay, had a hot streak with her 2004 debut Goodies and her 2006 follow-up Ciara: The Evolution. Both albums were full of singles, like “Goodies”, “1, 2 Step”, “Oh,”, “Like A Boy”, “Get Up.” Gradually, in the mid-2010s, she started gravitating towards acting. Then she met Future and seemed to become a family woman by 2014, when she gave birth to her son Future Zahir Wilburn.
How you don’t want to remember her: Motherhood is great and all, but clearly Ciara felt the call of showbiz once more, so she decided to release an album in 2015 called Jackie. Even though the album was inspired by the birth of her child, which she claims changed her life, and expands on the balance she found on her previous album, “urban pop-slash-R&B-hip-hop record”, it sold badly — only about 20,000 copies.
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