This Moment Is Mine is the third album by American singer Chanté Moore. The album was released on May 25, 1999, through Silas Records and MCA Records. It was Moore's first album release in four and a half years after her previous album, A Love Supreme. The album featured production from Rodney Jerkins, Simon Law, Moore, Robin Thicke, Jermaine Dupri, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, among others.
The album was preceded by the release of two singles — "Chanté's Got a Man" and "I See You in a Different Light". The album peaked at number thirty-one on the Billboard 200 and number seven on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart on June 12, 1999.
Background and release
"If I Gave Love" was intended to be released as the second single from her album This Moment Is Mine after "Chanté's Got a Man", but was ultimately scrapped. Rodney Jerkins had rewritten a "nearly identical song" for singer Jennifer Lopez entitled "If You Had My Love." Jerkins rewrote "If I Gave Love" with the same arrangement for Lopez and just changed the title to "If You Had My Love" after it was requested by Sean Combs, Lopez's boyfriend and one of On the 6s producers. Moore said: "He wrote the same song for her. I heard that it was because Puff Daddy walked in and heard my song and said 'I want that song,' and he [Rodney] was like 'Well that's already taken. We wrote that for Chante,' and he was like 'I want that song.' So Rodney wrote, really, the same song.".
Critical reception
This Moment Is Mine was met with a positive response from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic stated the album finds "Moore at the top of her game, crafting an alluring contemporary soul album that manages to avoid most of the cliches of the genre." He further noted: "Moore never shouts or engages in histrionic caterwauls – she keeps her focus on the song at hand, delivering each line as if she has lived it. That, combined with the sublime production and an excellent selection of songs, makes This Moment Is Mine a first-rate urban soul album. It may not be perfect – it does have some filler – but it's certainly more alluring than most of its peers."
In his review for Vibe, editor Marc Weingarlen remarked that "instead of performing melodramatic calisthenics, Moore lets her throaty, understated phrasing glide over the album's gentle groove [...] and let's the rest take care of itself. This songbird prefers subtlety to brashness [...] Here's hoping Moore's album title proves prophetic." Cheo Tyehimba of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B rating and wrote: "Most of the songs will go over great with the R&B thirtysomething crowd by adroitly mixing Moore’s feathery vocal caress with a lyrical commitment to old-school lovin'. Though not collectively transcendent, there’s an intimacy akin to a butterscotch candy shared between lovers."
Singles
"Chanté's Got a Man" was released as the album's lead single on May 4, 1999. The song became Moore's first top 10 hit charting at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
"I See You in a Different Light" featuring JoJo Hailey was released as the second single from the album on September 14, 1999. The song charted at number sixty-one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart on October 9, 1999.
Track listing
Notes
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Sample credits
"Chanté's Got a Man" contains elements of "One Bad Apple," written by George Jackson. "Love and the Woman" contains elements of "Love's Lines, Angles And Rhymes," written by Dorothea Joyce.