It has also been revealed that the album will be in fact a concept album. Recently on her Twitter account, Ameriie revealed that she has been secretly recording new music in Atlanta, Georgia, and that a late summer July/August release date is confirmed, with a possible 1st single in late May, early June. In late 2007, was reported that Ameriie had left her label Columbia Records, and signed with the Island Def Jam Music Group, and is currently working on her next studio album, executively produced by Bryan Michael Cox. The album has sold a combined total of 310,000 copies worldwide and is her most critically acclaimed album. The second single "Gotta Work" did not fare as well in the charts, despite receiving heavy airplay on UK and European music video channels. The single "Take Control" was released, and enjoyed international success. Her third album 'Because I Love It' was released in the UK, Europe and Asia. The album sold an estimated 800,000 copies worldwide and went gold in the US and silver in the UK. It earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (the album "Touch" was also nominated for the "Best Contemporary R&B Album" Grammy ). "1 Thing" went to the top of the charts in various international markets, including the US, UK and others around the world.
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In 2005, Ameriie burst back onto the music scene with her fourth single "1 Thing", which was used as the theme song for the Will Smith movie "Hitch". Her 2002 debut album "All I Have" was highly acclaimed by critics as was her 2nd album "Touch". ET to hear the show broadcast live on Sirius XM’s Volume, channel 106.Amerie Rogers, known professionally as Amerie, is an African American-Korean international R&B star. We like it the way it is.”ĭownload and subscribe to Rolling Stone Music Now, hosted by Brian Hiatt , on iTunes or Spotify, and tune in Fridays at 1 p.m. After we got over our anger, we said please don’t send any more of these. The label sends you different versions of your song, with terrible hooks on them. I was like, don’t you just hear that it sounds cool? And there were different iterations that came. But it’s not really supposed to be your traditional song where it’s taking you here and then you go up there. And it kind of does kind of stay on one track, it doesn’t really have a bunch of changes. “ I remember one of the descriptions was, it’s so linear.
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As opposed to have someone polished singing it, because then it’s cemented already.” And that gave me room to do my own interpretation of things. He’s not a singer, so it’s kind of like more of the idea of what it should sound like. Later on, he was like, ‘Should I get a girl to sing on the demos?’ And I was like, no! Because it’s very raw when he sings it. You just know how you feel about it.”‘īeating the demo “Rich sings on the demos,” Amerie explains. But you never really know how everyone else is going to like it. I liked it right away.And when we recorded it we looked at each other like hm, this is something. I thought, ‘There’s a lot happening in this track.’ It sounded so different from what was on the radio.
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The bridge was kind of empty, if I remember correctly, so I went off and wrote the bridge on my own at another time. And at first I was like, ‘Whoa, this song is crazy.’ The way he samples the Meters, what he chose and the way he looped it, gave it this super go-go flavor, which was in him because he’s from D.C. Rich had most of the song already finished. He’s not a make-it-in-front-of-me-right-now, let’s-bounce-back-and-forth-as-we-go creator. “The way Rich works, he has to go into his hole, he creates and then he comes back and you can start tweaking things. Tapes N’ Tapes “Rich had it on a demo tape, actually on a tape,” says Amerie. The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know A lot of people are like, she’s saying ‘gobble gobble gobble gobble!’ Why would I say that?” Again!’ People still ask me what I’m saying in. He didn’t mean it in a rude way, but he’d go, ‘No. Also, it was kind of like my treat, because Rich was really tough in the studio… We would do take after take. “I was literally eating them between takes, because I’m kind of a glutton.
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To hear the episode, press play below or download and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.ĭoritos in the vocal booth “There were a lot of guacamole Doritos involved,” says Amerie. The 2005 song paved the way for the decade of pop that followed, combining a wildly syncopated drum loop from the Meters with hyper-rhythmic vocals that owed way more to hip-hop than traditional R&B. On a recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, R&B singer Amerie explained how she and “Crazy in Love” producer Rich Harrison made “1 Thing,” which landed at number 90 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far).