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it's just about to crack the top 40 (at 45 last I checked), which makes me so happy. it was a white label at first, like 3 months ago, and the label tried to supress it because J.Lo wanted this track to be her first single (which is why she ended up with one of Usher's leftovers). I'm glad Amerie prevailed, J.Lo woulda ruined it.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

also apparently the drums are sampled from "Oh, Calcutta" by the Meters, which surprised me -- RH is from DC and has played in Go-Go bands, so I almost assumed it was just a sped-up Go-Go track (which is what it sounds like, esp. w/ that woodblock).

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Why is the internet (or me) so crap when it comes to finding out when a record is going to be released (in the UK)? I know I don't really need to know, but I want to now.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Ridiculously good. Must be number one for months.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it possible we'll all hate it by the end of the summer?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

The bast part is that vocal loop. Oh-oH Oh-Oh OH (Oh Oh Oh)

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Al: great info there! I LOVE Get Right, but it would greatly benefit from a lack of Jello.

I also love the subtle vibes at the tracks end and the slight scratchy quality of the vocals at the start that begins to loosen as the song continues.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah Brainwasher. That part you're talking about is great. I'm sitting here seriously racking my brain trying to think of ANY other song I've heard where the vocals were produced in such a kick-ass fashion. And produced is the key word there of course. I'm blown away by this song. I'm not usually BLOWN AWAY by new songs that often either.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

amerie is the best thing to happen to the world. 'I just died'!!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Accoring the this site (http://www.puregroove.co.uk/Default.asp?CategoryID=1&Quantity=0&ContextID=9467&Record=9569) the 12''Single has been out since January 5th. I wonder if it's out in the US...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a white label, not a proper release.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

(oh, and 1/3/2005 means 1st March 2005 in UK date format!)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm such an idiot.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Nah.

There's a lo-fi mp3 of another new Amerie track 'Talkin' About' at http://www.ohamerie.com/

They also say they have a hi-res video of '1 Thing' at http://www.ohamerie.com/video/, but I haven't tried it yet (and the lo-res wmv one has no picture on my player).

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link

this is easily my single of the year so far, btw. it's ridiculously fantastic, it deserves to own the world. better than "crazy in love" or all of j-lo's stuff combined.

and forksclovetofu = otm about the gushy ending.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

also, it makes me really happy to know that j-lo wanted this and didn't get it.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link

This song could not have happened with J-Lo. You couldn't do those kinds of things with her voice. Jennifer Lopez and her dumb fat ass can fuck off.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Even for a movie tie-in, that video is seaux haute.

― Matt Chesnut, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

"also, it makes me really happy to know that j-lo wanted this and didn't get it."

Is this true? Amerie's voice is so pretty, and J-Lo's voice is fucking nails on a chalkboard. Give her ALL of J-Lo's songs from now on.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm afraid that this song will not sit well with me after overexposure. But for now, I adore "1 Thing."

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

"also, it makes me really happy to know that j-lo wanted this and didn't get it."

Is this true? Amerie's voice is so pretty, and J-Lo's voice is fucking nails on a chalkboard. Give her ALL of J-Lo's songs from now on.

-- billstevejim (billsteveji...), March 8th, 2005.

I heard Amerie say so in an interview, so yeah, it's true.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I just say, while I Love 1 Thing, I still think Get Right is pretty fantastic - especially for the extended breakdown.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope all of this "1 Thing" love will spill over into people checking out Amerie's ridiculously slept on first album.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim OTM

Have y'all heard this Bobby Valentino joint yet tho? Oh man.

― djdee (djdee2005), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ok here you go. I'm being lazy with the writing because I'm tired but check it out, its a really good song.

― djdee (djdee2005), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

(I think Tim will love this)

― djdee (djdee2005), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Yr description makes it sound great dee but I'll have to wait until I visit my parents next to check it out...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Single of the year. I love this song so much - the little guitar stabs and the "DING DONG DING DONG DING!"

I can't quite put my finger on what makes it so great - maybe how it seems like there's a Jay-Z-style guest verse right around the corner, but it never actually comes? (The Juelz Santana remix isn't bad, but I'll take the original every time.)

Amerie is so good. I have no problems with a scenario in which this song is "Crazy in Love"-level inescapable.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't quite put my finger on what makes it so great - maybe how it seems like there's a Jay-Z-style guest verse right around the corner, but it never actually comes?

Ha ha - spot on.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link

in a shock move I adore this song! The mid point between "Get Right" and "Crazy In Love" (it's remarkable how much it sounds like "Get Right", actually, and while I love "Get Right" it also makes me realise how much better it would be if Amerie had sung it instead of J-Lo). Is there a consensus on how to pronounce Amerie yet? AAH-merie? AY-merie? A-merie?

the Bobby Valentino song is hot too, so swoonsome.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link

AM-erie (rhymes with scam), if Juelz is to be believed in the intro to the remix.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

BTW, the song is on the Hitch sundtrack that has been out for almost a month in the US and is getting a Euro release next week.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, "Slow Down" is great. I like how it has the same drums that were on Timbo & Magoo's "Cop That Shit" and the Britney/Ying Yang song (way better than either of those, though). I think the song was big in ATL before Luda signed him to DTP.

the official word is that Eve will be on the "1 Thing" remix.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

there's an unofficial 1 thing remix that's been floating around for months with jigga on it. it's taken from some other track -- i haven't heard it in so long i can't remember what song it was. encore, maybe?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I kept reading the damn thread title as Amelie and thinking you were all a bunch of sick fucks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I am considering going to see Hitch just for this song.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

One word: DON'T.
It undoubtedly plays over the credits or some such shit.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah-ha! So you haven't actually seen it?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw hitch on the weekend and didnt notice this song, and i've been loving it for a couple weeks now.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

> Is there a consensus on how to pronounce Amerie yet? AAH-merie? AY-merie? A-merie?

Rhymes with "mammary." Which I wholly thought Luda would've made note of by now.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, thanks to mark p I have now heard the goodness and good it is. I definitely did NOT expect that opening drum break and that pleases me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah-ha! So you haven't actually seen it?

-- Alba (albab...), March 8th, 2005.

No, I haven't.
I haven't tried that new C2 coke or man-on-man sex or thumbscrews either.
I just have a feeling it's not for me.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

shit, it's been 20 minutes, i should probably listen to this.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Popping it in Now!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link

as pissed as I am that my computer just crashed three times, just hearing that surface noisy start and the vicious drum breakdown and then NANANANANA OH!

This is really becoming my new happy fallback track.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

One Thing made me go back and blast Crazy in Love. Are there any other hot Rich Harrison tracks (besides Get Right)? Is Amerie's whole album produced by him?

― Wookie Rookie, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't tried that new C2 coke or man-on-man sex or thumbscrews either.
I just have a feeling it's not for me.

dude, C2 is really terrible.

what are thumbscrews?

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Have you seen Roots?

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.firstfoot.com/Great%20Scot/images/thumbscrew.jpg

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Wookie Rookie - check out Kelly Rowland's "Can't Nobody" - how Rich Harrison got the "Crazy In Love" job.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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yeah love it. i wish theo did more cheesy stuff like that, hes so good at balancing it w/ real skill & um ... weirdness? aggressiveness?

― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link

BIG FUCK OFF DRUMS

― flopson, Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brzxkb5lx_Q

― BringTheAuBonPain, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:15 (eleven years ago) link

yup

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:32 (eleven years ago) link

great tracks

― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link

i kind of wish the sample was actually in tune with the track

― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link

six years pass...

ILX should be all over this already, amirite

https://www.stereogum.com/2019471/stream-ameries-2-new-surprise-albums-4am-mulholland-after-4am/music/album-stream/

― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 20 October 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

Blimey

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0eJX_fBpOIM

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link

Pretty good! (Ridiculous video, but whatever.)

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link

Love it... I nominated / voted for the double EP in the albums poll (think it was my #2!); but I don't expect to see it place, due to apparent lack of interest here.

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Monday, 4 February 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link

It's just, like, perfect modern R&B to me... somehow it hits dead-center of a sweet spot

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Monday, 4 February 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link

The EPs felt like terrible joyless trend chasing to me :(

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link

:( is right!

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 02:50 (five years ago) link

not just trend-chasing but devoid of anything that made her seem like such a unique and singular presence when she was first releasing music

she looks great in that video though

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link

i've been listening to Because I Love It a lot lately and that's just emphasised how disappointing those EPs were

― ufo, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link

I can’t believe you guys are listening to the same EPs as me!!

(but I’ve gathered that my tastes don’t necessarily jibe with too many others on here, esp. when it comes to pop/R&B, so I won’t trip...)

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link

eight months pass...

h8 this song

― plax (ico), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link

truly you are tripping

― maffew12, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link

"truly you are tripping" -- me at ilm every time this song wins a ballot poll

― dyl, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link

has it? this place is alright

― maffew12, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link

won the 05-09 poll and the 00s decade poll

― dyl, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link

it's fun to think about how much less appreciated this song would be if jennifer lopez had successfully pilfered it

― dyl, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link

guess she wasn't there when they called

― maffew12, Saturday, 19 October 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link

I fn hate that cheap tinny sounding sample and the song has the bossy joylessness of enforced fun. The other terrible song of this era I hate is that one with Kelly Rowland and Nellie.

― plax (ico), Sunday, 20 October 2019 07:35 (four years ago) link

I’m pretty ILX hivemind-ey but ngl I struggle to get into this one? The beat’s amazing but the chorus is a little too annoying.. “shrill” is the word that comes to mind

I will hear no bad words about nelly and kelly rowland’s dilemma though

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 20 October 2019 08:14 (four years ago) link

ooh I just remembered the Eve remix is a thing. Her verse is lots of fun

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 20 October 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link

“Dilemma” is cool because they tried to send a text using Microsoft Excel in the video. People were really really stupid with technology back in the day.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 October 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link

I figured that's just how things were done in Nellyville.

But I just Googled this and found that it almost started a class war. https://www.buzzfeed.com/ikrd/nelly-kelly-rowland-excel

― maffew12, Sunday, 20 October 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link

I find it shrill and clattery and ugly in a bad way. maybe it'll grow on me

― frame casual (dog latin), Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link

This song is good & iconic but not my favorite of the rich Harrison x Amelie songs or rich Harrison songs proper .... as a song “get right” by jlo is better to me even if Amerie is obv >>>>

“Rollin down my face” by amerie is 🔥

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link

Otm

kinda the ‘countdown’ of the 00s

― flopson, Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link

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