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Just in case you haven't heard it yet, it's almost undoubtedly the single of the year thusfar.

Tweet - "Turn Off Da Lights"

and

"Turn Off Da Lights" (Remix f/ 50 Cent)

If the Amerie thread got 100 replies, I expect this to get 300 by the end of the week.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 11 March 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Amerie >>>>>>>>>>> Tweet

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 11 March 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

between this and "On Fire", Kwame is godlike in my eyes right now

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

KWame as in polka dots Kwame?

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Amerie >>>>>>>>>>> Tweet
-- The Brainwasher (OpenUpYourSkul...), March 11th, 2005.

In this case, I guess so. Not impressed by 'TODL' at ALL.

― BARMS, Friday, 11 March 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

KWAME SO HOT RIGHT NOW

― monia.l (monia.l), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Tweet's OK, but not really doing much for me. Amerie for me, plz.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah polka dots Kwame.

let's please not make this a Tweet/Amerie fite thing, there's room for more than one good new R&B single (by my count there's at least 8 right now).

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

But "Mr. Brightside" isn't r'n'b. *flees*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Name 'em, Al! Tweet & Amerie, but then what? Mario? Ciara? (Plz don't say Omarion.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

John Legend should be on the list. As should Mario, though radio overkill has hit that one in a BIG way.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Amerie - One Thing
Bobby Valentino - Slow Down
Usher - Caught Up
JLo - Get Right
Ashanti - Only Yo
Ciara f. Ludacris - Oh

― djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

r kelly - sex in the kitchen

― djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Brooke Valentine - Girlfight
Nivea - Okay

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

djdee you forgot tori

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Tori Alamaze - Dont cha

― djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

only ones I had in mind that haven't been mentioned yet:
Tyra - "Country Boy"
and maybe "Lovers & Friends"

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

and maybe the new Mario single. I wasn't wild about it at first, but for chrissakes, he talks about "the ghetto Kama Sutra" in the chorus.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that Tyra song, it sounds like something that would have come out when i was in high school (4 years ago)

There's that "Let Me Love You" remix but the beat is scott storch in banger mode and it has MCs on it so I guess its not really R&B as such.

― djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You had me until SHORRDAY.

Whoa whoa "the ghetto Kama Sutra"!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

also I haven't heard it yet but I saw a new Lil Mo 12" in the store the other day!

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this year is going to be like '03 in that good R&B singles are going to far outnumber good mainstream hip hop.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know why, but I have not heard "Oh!" on the radio (in CT) - they're still boombangin' the hell out of the first 2 singles, tho. & I really wish they'd stop playing the Fabolous remix of "Get Right" - the version from the video is a LOT better.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I just started hearing "Oh!" on the radio this week. the station here plays a version of "Get Right" with the original sax loop beat w/ the Fab verses on it, which is the best of both worlds really.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Why's Missy doing the Puffy "I'm about to lose my voice I'm yelling so specially and pointlessly over the beat" at the beginning? I really do expect her to say "Bad Boy" or "And we won't stop, cause we can't stop" or something.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Tweet and I like this.

Still not heard Amerie but why don't one of yous gmail me something something.

― Milo Smiley (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah actually I would like to hear Amerie too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The thread for "1 Thing" has a link to the video.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the nicest thing i can say about this is that it's interesting. unfortunately i'm not really feeling it.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I must confess that I identify with Missy in that whenever I hear it I want to yell "WICKED!" and run it back to the beginning over and over.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny because it's like Missy and Lady Sov switched for their Current prospective releases.

― Milo Smiley (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

270 to go.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

haha good luck. I'm afraid your bringing up Amerie as a point of comparison in the very first post insured a lot of wet blanket responses.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

" Why's Missy doing the Puffy 'I'm about to lose my voice I'm yelling so specially and pointlessly over the beat' at the beginning? I really do expect her to say 'Bad Boy' or 'And we won't stop, cause we can't stop' or something. "

DITTO x100.
missy, shut up.

― reo, Friday, 11 March 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

haha good luck. I'm afraid your bringing up Amerie as a point of comparison in the very first post insured a lot of wet blanket responses.

EXACTLY

For the record, Missy is fucking fabulous on this song.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ori Alamaze - Dont cha

On dissensus I read this as Tori Amos. hah. THen I realized this was the song that had been stuck in my head the past day. It's great, but not sth I like having stuck in my head as I can only remember the nervous delivery.

Tweet's single is pretty good.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone heard Rjd2's Tweet remix?

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to.

― djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The album is completely bonkers and WONDERFUL. Tweet is a great singer and an even better -- weirder -- songwriter: "You must be sort of deranged / Your worth is less than small change / To cry that to me is sort of insane"....

And let's just list samples here: "Sports, Sex, and Food" is insane Missy production with a Meters sample; "Cab Ride" is a bittersweet song over Bob James' "Taxi" theme; Missy uses Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust".

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 24 March 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

are there any noise/prince ballads like "drunk"? keep talking about this; this probably won't hit NZ for months.

― etc, Friday, 25 March 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

rolling stone gave this ONE star!!

so it must be good, obv..

― special guest appearance, Friday, 25 March 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There are no guest appearances by Mick Jagger.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides the (great) single, I only like "Sports, Sex & Food". Very tedious, unfortunately.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Very wrong, unfortunately.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This is still single of the year, for the record.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it, not really in my top twenty or anything right now tho.

― deej., Friday, 25 March 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Anyone who doesn't rate this as single of the year so far is simply wrong. The first five seconds (with the sped-up Marvin Gaye sample) are simply blissful, and Missy is fabulous as always.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 9 April 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

every time i hear this i'm like, huh why does missy like this so much if it's not doing much for me; later on in the song i feel the beat more, but it hasn't yet taken over enough to where missy's enthusiasm seems unforced. i mean, it's good, but it doesn't do it for me yet. (missy's verse here is great, despite her almost falling asleep during!)

there's some really sophisticated songwriting-production-arranging (hard to separate them with the particular things they're up to here) on the album.

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 10 June 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Each time I listen
I hear something excellent
that I missed before

This could be the best
ten dollars I ever spent
at evil Wal-Mart

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

from her myspace, if anyone's interested:

UPDATE ON ALBUM ETC!!!!!
HELLO EVERYONE.....

I JUST WANTED TO WRITE A FEW LINES TO GET U UPDATED ON WHATS GOING ON WITH THE ALBUM. FIRST, I'M SORRY TO SAY BUT IM NOT SURE WHEN ITS COMING OUT BECAUSE IM IN THE MIDDLE OF ANOTHER MERGER. SECONDLY IM TRYING MY HARDEST TO DO WHATEVER I CAN TO MAKE IT HAPPEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THIS BUSINESS IS A MESS RIGHT NOW BUT IM DETERMINED TO PULL THROUGH AND DELIVER A AWESOME ALBUM TO YALL!!!!!! STAY TUNED BECAUSE ILL BE DOING A DAILY YOUTUBE DIARY OR BLOG SO YOU CAN SEE THE PROCESS AND BE HANDS ON WITH IT....THAT WILL BE VERY SOON.....UNTIL THEN

LOVE TWEET

― anger is an allergy (braveclub), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

does tweet tweet?

― the toxic Internet art of constant callous one upsmanship (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

simply because the weather is so nice today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcwh6zNf7tY

― breastcrawl, Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:27 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

Sending prayers up for my sis @MS_HUMMINGBIRD who has blood clots in both lungs... We are asking for your prayers for healing...Amen🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/ui4WxRN6Qg
— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) August 30, 2017

― j., Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:32 (eight years ago)

Saw that earlier -- any update?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 August 2017 02:01 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

She has a new song out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8R8jv0lbQ

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 27 June 2020 12:35 (five years ago)

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