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I always look at this video when I think of Amerie. When I first watched this years ago my eye was always on Rihanna and to this day it continues to be on her.
For some reason Amerie just didn't have "it".
YIt's blame Beyonce as to why Amerie didn't blow up? She had some cute songs but like everyone else said, there was no it factor and couldn't sing nor dance for sh!t. Same with Ashanti. Y'all just want to point the finger at Bey and her father like you always do.
She didn't have "it"
When you have a song that big, with the push that Sony gave her at the time(she was everywhere) you're not a superstar...... She had the same machine (at the time) as Beyoncé, Jlo and Shakira who all took the ball and ran with it. Her second single after "1 thing" was the Lil Jon produced "Touch" which rhymes with Sucks.....
2005? damn i was 6 when that song came out. don't even remember it, or her.
But. Beyonce didn't do the sound better lol, we can listen to the comparison ourselves. 1 Thing sh!ts on Crazy in Love
no she didn't. same label... different push/budget/promotion all together. Sony didn't believe in 1 Thing at all. JLo tried to strong arm it & Sony kept giving Bey priority. You can tell by the producer credits. 1 Thing was a runaway no one at the label understood except Amerie & Rich.
Same thing happened to those former JRecords artists when Alicia was King.
I feel personally offended on behalf of Amel and Goapele!she's in the same folder as amel larrieux and goapele for me.
ethereal voices that you listen to while relaxing.
Probably the same thing that happened to the negro nose she once had.She looks ashy.
What happened to endthat pretty complexion she once had?
Bahahaha add "Check Up on It" and you have the most mediocre songs of the early 2000s.
How did Sony give Bey priority when they told her to she needed to re-record her album cause she had no hits? They only started really backing her after CIL became a hit. Even after that, she had to fund the recording of b-day and the videos herself so they wouldn't tell her what to do.
Touch to my knowledge didn't even sell 500k (I know it's certified gold) and the one before that sold 600k in 2002. People just weren't checking for music before and after 1 thing.
I wish LSA (not you specifically) would stop with the revisionist history, especially while quoting "tea."
Amerie become my favorite female artist when 1 thing came out. Touch was the first album that i ever bought from an artist. Then she released that mixtape then added extra letters to her name it was hard to keep up.
She didn't become a superstar because she gave up more than anything or did not want it bad enough. I think she felt the industry was too cutthroat for her.
Why does everyone keep saying that Amerie didn't have the IT factor?? She definitely did. Does someone like Ed sheeran have an it factor or Taylor swift? Especially when they first came out ?i think not. Even in the beginning of rihanna's career , she didn't have an it factor , when SOS came out my friend dead ass said "why is she even trying , she's a one hit wonder." Can you believe that someone said that about Rihanna? smh Sometimes you can develop your it factor overtime .
Then you keep talking about Amerie's voice , is Jlo the greatest singer alive? nope, neither is Rihanna (who has gotten better over time), Britney spears or madonna. The thing that superstars all have in common is the drive , work ethic and persistence to achieve their ultimate goal of being a superstar. I guess talent also can help you sustain a good career. Having the greatest voice or being the greatest dancer isn't going to make you a music superstar , you just need work your ass off. And sometimes having the right people behind you can help as well. Form reading the comments sounds like she barely had anyone in the industry rooting for her.
That is why they say hard work beats talent.
Its funny that someone posted that destiny's child tribute with Rihanna , Tieara Marie and Amerie. Looking at their video you could say that career wise at that time seemed like the 3 girls were on the same level.
But then what happened ? Rihanna just kept on releasing music and never stopped. A lot of people don't know the sh!t Rihanna went through , I remember reading some interview from her manager about why she released an album every year. Her second album was basically self funded and I mean look at this cheap ass video from 2006 . Music of the sun was a hot ass mess.
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I mean y'all are seriously trying to play amerie though. Out of the three here she sounded the best and had the most stage presence to me.
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I mean she tried y'all she tried , she just got tired.
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The irony of this song and her music career
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She's boring...I mean as an entertainer, as singer, as a woman...in life, just complete snoozeville.
BUT, anyway, her and Columbia had a LOT of issues and they put some money behind her after "1Thing" and recommended that she follow up with another song off the album for the next single, but her and her team went with "Touch" Lil' Jon was so big at the time...and then I can't remember what happened after that. An acquaintance of mine worked urban promotion at Columbia for over 10 years.
But I'll tell y'all this, as much as Bey stans like to pretend sheer grit and talent got her where she is...it's simply not true and that's no shade against her, but there were a lot of behind-the-scenes things going on that frankly, I don't even feel comfortable spilling and this is 2nd-hand tea anyway. I'll tell you this: there ain't one superstar, alive or dead, who got there without some underhand/shifty sh!t happening, the industry is too much money to leave sh!t up to talent and hard work ONLY.
"I remember when I first did the beat," Harrison said, "I played it for a lot of my buddies, as I normally do, and they couldn't dig it. But that's when I knew I had something special," he laughed. "Sometimes people need to hear the whole record."Harrison sampled the old soul track long before he met up with Beyoncé. Armed with a sound so full of blaring fanfare, he knew almost immediately that he had something hot on his hands. He also knew he had to wait for the right artist to bring it to.
"Yeah, I had it in the chamber," he said. "I hadn't really shopped it much, because sometimes you don't want to come out of the bag before it's right. People don't really get it and you'll leave them with a foul taste in their mouth. So it was just something that I held on to until I got the call from B."
"From her face, she was kind of like, 'I don't know, but I'mma ride with you anyway,' " he remembered. "I knew I was going to have to sell it a little bit, because when it comes on it doesn't sound like anything that was being done at the time."
Beyoncé warmed up to the sample and then said something that, in his wildest dreams, Harrison would have never imagined, nor would he want to: "I love the idea," he recalled Beyoncé saying. "Now write the song. I'll be back in two hours."
Unpleasant reminders of the night before notwithstanding, Harrison stepped up and wrote the verses and the hook, leaving the bridge for Beyoncé. He wound up playing all the instruments on the track, too.
thank you. Matthew didn't some foul sh!t just like Barry & many others #Smokey. I'm certain some of what you heard, mirrors what I heard.
Amerie got dropped by Columbia because Beyonce/Matty had lotta power.
Amerie put out some shady record on a mixtape sneak dissing Bey around the time B'day came and they weren't having that. Obviously..
And not only was Rich Harrison stolen from Amerie- the songs CIL and Why Dont we Fall in Love both have the same melody in the verses and the video for CIL looks like the Why Dont we Fall in Love video (but better)
Crazy in Love was Amerie's song & sound. these girls don't know much about the politics and nature of this business & the things Matty did looking out for his pockets. Amerie was around longer than her debut year. How was she on Nas' album in '01.?... cause she was a label mate at least since 2000.
Baby Boy is a classic.Bahahaha add "Check Up on It" and you have the most mediocre songs of the early 2000s.
Beyonce was lead singer in a record breaking girl group. She got opportunity AFTER she sold records. A Gold album and top 40 from Amerie wasnt pushing major success/priority in 2000-2002.
Where's the proof that Amerie was getting ready to release CIL in 2002? Rich said he had it in the vault and filled in the lyrics when Bey asked?[/QUOTE]
According to LSA tea and second hand music knowledge, the all powerful Mathew and Beyonce paid and/or threatened Rich to say that :
I don't know who they're trying to convince with their posts in here. Amerie struggled to SELL 500k with Touch despite 1 thing being a top 10 hit. To put it into perspective, she sold 150k more than DIL opened with, after CIL was released, during Touch's entire run on the charts!
Amerie got dropped by Columbia because Beyonce/Matty had lotta power.
Amerie put out some shady record on a mixtape sneak dissing Bey around the time B'day came and they weren't having that. Obviously..
And not only was Rich Harrison stolen from Amerie- the songs CIL and Why Dont we Fall in Love both have the same melody in the verses and the video for CIL looks like the Why Dont we Fall in Love video (but better)
Beyonce was lead singer in a record breaking girl group. She got opportunity AFTER she sold records. A Gold album and top 40 from Amerie wasnt pushing major success/priority in 2000-2002.
Where's the proof that Amerie was getting ready to release CIL in 2002? Rich said he had it in the vault and filled in the lyrics when Bey asked?[/QUOTE]
According to LSA tea and second hand music knowledge, the all powerful Mathew and Beyonce paid and/or threatened Rich to say that :
I don't know who they're trying to convince with their posts in here. Amerie struggled to SELL 500k with Touch despite 1 thing being a top 10 hit. To put it into perspective, she sold 150k more than DIL opened with, after CIL was released, during Touch's entire run on the charts!
The top 5 in the 2000s were Beyonce, Ashanti, Alicia, Ciara and later down the line, Rihanna.
Those were black women who had Platinum albums and multiple top 10s in a single year at least.
They thought Sony was giving Amerie a huge budget cause Paradise went #36?
CIL was going to be a bigger hit with Amerie? Even after Rich said he couldnt find anyone who agreed with the song at the time?
THIS...
No young girl watching her videos wanted to be her. Her style was basic at best in the video, her hair was just there, etc
SIX?!?!?! sh!t i feel old.