Mya plans to release her fourth album, Control Freak, this summer. "It's a combination of a Gwen Stefani, because it's energetic, and Lil Jon, very ghetto," she says.

The follow-up to 2003's Moodring, which hit Number Three on the Billboard Top 200, finds the twenty-five-year-old R&B singer reteaming with producer Dr. Dre, as well as songwriter Sean Garrett, who co-wrote Usher's "Yeah."

Among the new tracks are "Blame Myself," which Mya says has "very honest, empowering lyrics," and "Escape," which she describes as "grunge-y."

Mya and Dre will get to work in earnest next month. "March is my shutdown month -- nothing but recording," she says. "It will be out in July . . . or September, at the latest."