Amerie - 1 Thing

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.

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.

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

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.

Ha ha - spot on.

the Bobby Valentino song is hot too, so swoonsome.

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

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

-- 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.

This is really becoming my new happy fallback track.

dude, C2 is really terrible.

what are thumbscrews?

I totally didn't know he did "Can't Nobody", though, I love that one too!

I luv "Didn't You Know" as well.

I'm 22 and I haven't done anything a hundredth as productive.

"but buddenless version please "

What's wrong with the Budden verse exactly prima? I prefer him muchly on "Whatever You Want" true.

Juelz Santana
Royce da 5'9"
Fabolous
Peedi Crakk
Vic Damone

er by which i mean nas sounds refreshingly exciting on that tune as is

'didnt u know'! which i found eventually, but shd never have bothered; generally i do have a distaste for rap guest verses BUT i dont want to sound like these ninnies who automatically hate all men, (y'know like those gender-agenda divs who didnt want jay-z on 'crazy in love' or say 'gully' is better than 'singalong') so i shd qualify it's mostly because they are often stuck on as an needless afterthought vague stab at extra popularity, which is resentibly patronising, and also that often the verses are quite crassly rubbish in terms of providing any interesting dialogue with the song, which i find to be the case on 'didnt you know', besides it being a lame verse as is. 'didnt u know' is a song of one voice plainly addressing another

I told you babe so many times
I would never hurt you
So why you actin so surprised
All you got to do is…
Is show me that you feel the same way I do
Didn’t you know it’s bout me and you?

y'know? no place for joey budden

one variation i will accept tho is that joe buds does sound quite good and live on this beat! so for instance altho jadakiss is a total dumbass on teedra moses' 'you'll never find' i dont mind so much cos jada's throaty burnished bronze is texturally v nice on that golden beat

h8 this song

truly you are tripping

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

has it? this place is alright

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

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

guess she wasn't there when they called

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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

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 🔥

Otm

kinda the ‘countdown’ of the 00s