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INOJ, American singer, songwriter and the whisper chanteuse of the late 90s!

Sometimes when I want to pretend it’s the late 90s again, I put on Old Navy khaki cargo pants and work on an old gumdrop iMac connected to AOL dial-up while listening to one of the 90s Apple radio stations. No, but I do listen to the 90s Apple radio stations and the other day they took me back to a gym full of high schoolers freak dancing while wearing tube tops and pleather pants when they played INOJ’S “Love You Down.” INOJ (born name: Ayanna Porter) still writes for other artists and puts out songs today, but those of us who were around in the 90s probably know her best for her cover of “Time After Time” and her cover of Ready for the World’s “Love You Down.”

“Love You Down” was a semi-hit in the US, but it was a major hit at my high school. They played that shit during lunch on a loop and I remember thinking to myself, “The HELL is she singing? Sing out, Louise!” She almost sounded like a stoned baby talking in her sleep. Not only was INOJ’s voice demure and modest, but so was her fashion sense. While many pop tricks of the 90s were showing their asses and chichis, INOJ kept it demure and modest in church outfits your auntie bought at Merry Go Round and Casual Corner. Get into INOJ stalking her crush while caressing her face behind a tree:

You know what else is going to take all night? Trying to figure out what she’s saying, because I can’t hear her. But you know, that’s her charm and what made her the whispering modest songstress queen of the late 90s!