If all you knew about Lopes was what was contained on Supernova, you'd be staggered at the breadth of her talent, the scale of her ambition, the depth of her apparently boundless empathy. To say the 30-year-old Atlanta-based artist had a complex relationship with her drill-sergeant dad would be putting it mildly, but she chose to close the LP with a song constructed as an open letter to him, and which found her clearly articulating her belief – apparently fused from equal parts science, tradition and wishful thinking – that energy is never lost to the universe, and that when someone dies, a new star is born. It was the anniversary of her grandfather's death, and would have been her father's birthday, had he not been killed ten years earlier. She'd settled upon it as the release date for her first solo LP for reasons that went beyond the commercial and scheduling considerations most artists have to juggle. August 16, 2001, was supposed to be a big day for Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.
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