100 Reasons Why "Ignition - Remix" Is So Damned Great

btw: The "murder she wrote" line requires reference to the dancehall original. Chaka Demus and Pliers sing 'bout hot gal wit di angel face and di devil heart. Dem gal act "flirty flirty" when dem "character dutty."

I think this is the kind of chick Mr. Kelly is talkin' about.

Oh, and that lazy fall into the chorus. Heavenly.

I don't, however, really feel the dancehall here...it's WAY too slow and lazy. It's got more of that Club Med reggae vibe. If it was over something like the diwali (see Wayne Marshall's "No Letting Go"), I might be willing to agree. Even then, dancehall deejays are anything but lazy and that's the charm of this tune.

162. But the song holds up despite the bad parody.

164. Ain't/no/half/steppin'

Wait, we are talking about Dynamix II, right?

same chords/bassline

One Love.

----this is the sound of me backing out the thread slowly.

still great

359. this is the only song i listened to the year i graduated from high school and is inextricably tied up in my mind with weeks on end being drunk with high school friends and having the best time of my entire life smoking metric tons of weed in my garage

bump.i was just watching music videos on youtube and was reminded of this ,easily my favourite ever thread about music

This thread makes up for any Egyptian Lover-related beardiness twice over.

A few years ago, on his blog, the white folk rocker John Darnielle declared his admiration for R. Kelly’s new R. & B. single “Ignition.” Thirty years ago, Darnielle might have attempted to imitate R. Kelly’s perverse and feather-light soul. Now he’s just a fan.

^^^was gonna make this zing when i saw thread had been bumped

Probably has the best example in music of rhyming a word with itself, specifically "lobby".

This is gonna be a highlight of future VH1 'I Love the 00's!' shows in the future

bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce

still the ultimate weekend song

This is my favorite ILM thread.

28. The good grammar: "Food everywhere / as if the party was catered"

― amateurist (amateurist)

Good grammar would be "food everywhere/as if the party were catered".

like "hey ya" or "crazy" this is another song that i love but really don't want to hear ever again

also ruined by the amount of non-rap/r&b listeners who're all OMFG GREATEST SONG EVER R. KELLY LOVE THIS but don't want to dance to say.... "step in the name of love" - yeah it's an awesome song but let's move on

let's step on

seriously tho this is a music snob thing that always kind of annoys me... why so mad at crossover hits and the people who like them? not being a rap/r&b listener isn't a character flaw, isn't it good that people who like other kinds of music have also get exposed to r&b through songs like this?

it's a delicate balance between admitting that the strength of the crossover hit is that it just happens to be awesome & hating people who won't get down to the I Wish remix

but I didn't see a lotta ppl reppin for "You Saved Me" which was also awesome, so there are numerous circles of frontin to be unpacked

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lol forgot the "s"

jordan s4rgent, weren't you just a year and a half ago all like "I like r&b singles but never would think to listen albums"

genuine lol & genuine pride in having inspired this new screenname

360. this coming on shuffle when you haven't heard it in a year, and you're just walking to a bar on a summer evening

157. this thread made me download a whole bunch of R Kelley songs. the best part of all of them is in "I Wish" when he's talking about this guy who'll "always be his nigga" and he goes "radio don't take the 'nigga' out this song'

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, June 16, 2003 1:47 PM (6 years ago)

this thread made me put the 4 hours of R. Kelly shit in my iTunes library on shuffle and it's really putting me in a good mood

159. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqO5iiPoog

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