Lead singer Coko was even quoted as calling the Puff Daddy-produced “Someone,” the first official loosie from the project, "a half-a**ed single.” In truth, it did feel like a song that Mariah Carey passed on. “Love Like This” featuring Lil Cease, which used the same beat as “Crush On You,” and “Give It Up” featuring Lil Kim felt derivative instead of innovative. However, a number of tracks followed the tried, true and, at this point, tired New York mafioso hip-hop sound. Even the Timbaland and Missy copycat track "Come and Get Some" featuring E-40 wasn't unwelcome on the tracklist. Songs like “Lose My Cool” featuring the grimy Redman and “Can We” featuring Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, originally a hit off of the Sprung soundtrack, were welcome surprises from the divas. Release Some Tension took the girls even further out of their comfort zone, for better and for worse. They had experimented with breakout success with their first two albums but still kept the sound that made the ladies a household name.
For their third album, Release Some Tension, they decided to change up the writers and producers who previously brought them hits, going for the biggest names of the day.
They shocked, awed and serenaded audiences with songs like the ode to oral pleasure, "Downtown," man-stealing anthems like "You're the One" and Quiet Storm staples like "Weak." Times had changed and the ladies were just trying to keep up. Debuting during the New Jack Swing era, SWV were no longer fresh voices in 1997.
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