"1 Thing" was written by Amerie and Rich Harrison and is built around a sample of The Meters' 1970 version of the same-titled theme song from Oh! Calcutta!, written by Samuel Walden. "1 Thing" was recently certified Gold by the RIAA for selling 500,000 in ring tones. The single was certified Platinum (200,000+ copies) by the RIAA and earned Amerie a Grammy Award nomination for " Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" in 2006. The first single from Amerie's second album, Touch, and the only single from the soundtrack to the 2005 romantic comedy film Hitch, "1 Thing" peaked at number eight in the United States and number four in the United Kingdom, becoming Amerie's first top ten single and her biggest hit to date. They know what it is." 1 Thing" is a 2005 single by American R&B singer Amerie. So it's a fresh sound for everybody but people in the D.C./ Maryland/ Virginia area. I was like, 'We have to do it in an up-tempo way because when you hear it on the radio in D.C., it's fast.'. "We did it the first time on Need You Tonight, which was a song on the last album, but we slowed it down a lot. In an unrelated statement, Amerie said that "you don't hear go-go outside of D.C." She was discussing her journey in getting people in the industry to go for her go-go sound. RELATED: Beyoncé’s Dad Claims That Destiny’s Child Isn’t Planning A Comeback But Fans Don’t Buy It So it was just something that I held on to until I got the call from B." People don't really get it and you'll leave them with a foul taste in their mouth. "I hadn't really shopped it much, because sometimes you don't want to come out of the bag before it's right. "Yeah, I had it in the chamber," he said about finding the right artist for the track. They also think that in this statement made by Harrison regarding Crazy in Love, he might have been referring to Amerie's sound: Though the Beyhive maintains that speculators are overreaching, many agree that it is "fishy" how Harrison first worked with Amerie but was later "brought" by Matthew Knowles to Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland. I wasn't sure if people were going to get it." Fans argue that it was all Amerie's signature. In an interview with MTV in 2004, the former Destiny's Child member said that what made Crazy in Love a hit was "the horn hook." She explained that "it has this go-go feel to it, this old-school feel. Some internet detectives began to trace the origins of Beyoncé's 2003 hit Crazy in Love to Amerie's 1 Thing and Why Don't We Fall in Love. RELATED: Fans Can’t Believe Teyana Taylor Was Just 15 When She Helped Choreograph This Beyoncé Video The Let's Get Loud hitmaker ended up doing Get Right, another song produced by Harrison. With radio stations refusing to pull out 1 Thing from their playlists, Amerie got the official release she deserved. But apparently, Columbia was trying to kill off the single since JLo was about to record her own album, Rebirth. The singer said that "people just weren't getting it." At last, after six months of recording the final output, they decided to leak it to radio stations instead. The label kept rejecting every version they turned in. Amerie and Harrison quickly got back to work, trying to improve the song as asked. Everyone felt good about the track that it was immediately sent to Amerie's label, Columbia. The producer and his team finished the lead single for the second album, 1 Thing, in only two to three hours.
He's previously helped Amerie in her first album, All I Have. When she was working on her second album in 2004, she sought the help of producer Rich Harrison who's known for working with both JLo and Beyoncé. How Amerie's Producer 'Gave Her Sound' AwayĪmerie struggled with getting her music out there.
RELATED: Why Fans Are Still Talking About This Exchange Between Beyoncé and Johnny Knoxville 20 Years Later The 28-time Grammy winner didn't steal the vocals of the Why R U singer, but fans allege her of "copying" Amerie's melodies and music video ideas. But in her case, Beyoncé is involved as well. Recently, with rumors spreading that Jennifer Lopez "stole" other artists' vocals for her breakout hits, Amerie's name was brought up again. In 2011, she became an independent artist and has never stepped back into mainstream music since. But after a few years, her career started to dwindle. It earned her multiple prestigious award nominations like the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 2006. She rose to fame with her 2005 single, 1 Thing. Before her name was attached to Kourtney Kardashian for being her lookalike, Amerie was known for her short-lived music career in the mid-2000s.
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