The debut album from 19 year old sensation Mya Harrison is much like an empty pizza box delivered fresh and hot to your doorstep -- filled with promising aromas and excellent ideas but ultimately unsatisfying. The airy alto voice of this curvy University of Maryland dropout is the one that kept you movin' on one of the summer's hottest singles, "Ghetto Superstar" with the Fugees' Pras and Wu Tang's ODB, but somehow most of her own material fails to capture that kind of energy or resonance.

Take, for example, the current single "Movin' On," which is currently burning up the charts with a remix featuring No Limit Soldier Silkk the Shocker. The song is a fluffy pop minded creation targeted directly at "crossover" radio, with no real emotional content nor flavor. It hearkens the sugary Black pop of the 80s (Five Star, early New Edition) or the cookie cutter girl acts of the 50s, and serves as great entertainment for dance floors, but little more. Honestly, how many teenagers, still living at home, know about "your stroke ain't strokin' no more?" If they do, they'd sing it with more conviction (i.e. Aaliyah, PJ Harvey, et cetera). Even guest shots by Dru Hill's Sisqo and one of pop's best spin doctors, Missy Elliott, can't save songs like "It's All About Me" and "Bye Bye."

Mya looks good on paper -- she favors short skirts (while performing in the Smoking Grooves concert in Los Angeles, she spent almost as much time pulling her lycra dress down as singing), she's pretty in a harmless kind of way, she can pull off enough vibrato and volume to have people saying "she can sang!" But behind it her writing skills (she wrote much of her debut album) are lackluster at best due to a sheltered home life and no real life experience. Her production, likewise, could have been ordered off a box of lucky charms (on "Keep On Lovin' Me" the same Love Unlimited Orchestra sample that propelled "It's All About The Benjamins" to the top of the chart is used with much less effect) and lends itself to drippy ballads that scream "junior high."

In five or ten years, Mya may develop into a viable artist of worth and value. However, with the fickle nature of music and her frankly mediocre debut, having the luxury of that kind of development time may not be an option, as audiences keep movin' on ...