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The response from DJs and listeners was positive, and it consequently received airplay across the country. Later in 2004, six months after recording '1 Thing', Amerie and Harrison leaked it to US radio stations in an attempt to get it released officially. The label continued to refuse to release '1 Thing' in Amerie's words, 'People just weren't getting it'. Each time they submitted a new version to the label, Columbia told them that the song sounded unfinished, but was unable to specify what should be changed. Harrison and Amerie returned to the studio several times to rework the track. They recommended that more music be added to the percussion-focused beat, but Harrison and Amerie replied that adding more to the beat would overpower the song. When executives at Amerie's label, Columbia/ Sony Urban Music, heard '1 Thing', they felt that the song's choruses needed to be 'bigger'. Īmerie's manager, Len Nicholson, felt the song was ' the single' to release.

According to Harrison, they wrote and finished the song in two to three hours. Harrison said he loved the work of the Meters, especially Modeliste, commenting, 'Ziggy, he's crazy.' He processed the way the breakdown could be 'flipped', added a bongo drum, a cowbell, and a ride cymbal, and sent it to Amerie. In May 2004, Harrison heard 'Oh, Calcutta!' for the first time and began working on the beat accompanying the ten-second back-and-forth breakdown between Meters drummer Ziggy Modeliste and guitarist Leo Nocentelli. In 2004, when working on her second album, Amerie enlisted the services of producer Rich Harrison, who had helped produce and write her first album. It was later named the 22nd and 25th best song of the 2000s decade by Rolling Stone and Robert Christgau, respectively. The song earned Amerie a nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 2006 Grammy Awards, and was also nominated for Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Track at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards. A remix of '1 Thing' features rapper Eve.

#Amerie 1 thing fabolous download#

Its digital download and ringtone releases were each certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). '1 Thing' received acclaim from critics, and peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number four in the United Kingdom, becoming Amerie's first top-10 single and her biggest singles to date, also peaking at number one on the US R&B singles chart. The song was released as the album's lead single on January 18, 2005, and is the only single from the soundtrack to the 2005 romantic comedy film Hitch. Its lyrics focus on an unidentified 'thing' that fuels a romantic attraction.

Written by Amerie and Rich Harrison and produced by the latter, the song is influenced by go-go rhythms and features a prominent sample of the Meters' 1970 funk recording of 'Oh, Calcutta!', written by Stanley Walden. ' 1 Thing' is a song by American singer Amerie from her second studio album, Touch (2005). Night Flight, Fort Washington, Maryland.

Stream Drive in its entirety here, and make sure to check out our Behind the Beat profile of Focus. It's definitely a refreshing change from the dark and moody R&B that's so popular these days. He lends a backdrop of dizzying synths and extra tight snares. 'Every Time' is produced by Focus, Aftermath's in-house producer who played a major role on Dre's Compton. For Drive, though, the song has been remastered and given a new verse from Fabolous, who appeared on Amerie's last album, 2009's In Love & War, on the track 'More Than Love.' The album opens with a new version of 'Every Time,' a track that she put out in 2012. She appeared on The Breakfast Club yesterday, and today, Ameriie has come out with a brand new EP, Drive, released through her independent label Feeniix Rising Ent. Remember Amerie? Responsible for classics like '1 Thing.' Well, the R&B singer has returned from a lengthy hiatus, and she's taken a page from Desiigner's book and added an extra 'i' to her name. 1 MAKE IT STOP Ameriie returns with her new 'Drive' EP and gets Fabolous to guest on the track 'Every Time.