Ameriie on the Breakfast Club

[BXKingPin82]

im surprised so many people on here know about that All I Have piffery


for the young heads... maaaaaaaan play that "Nothing Like Loving You" joint when you alone with ya lil boo.

mmmmmm

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

Beyonce wasn't the one pulling the strings. She was the benefited from label politics as many artists do. Ameriie not being bigger has nothing to do with Beyonce. In fact, Beyonce's solo career wasn't even poppin' like that when Ameriie debuted. "Work It Out" produced by The Neptunes (when everything they produced was a hit) flopped. Jay Z's "Bonnie & Clyde" was the biggest thing Beyonce had going musically. Ameriie came out at a time when Ashanti/J.Lo dominated mainstream R&B. And then you still had women like Tweet who was killing it at the time. Brandy came back on the scene and there was still songs from Aaliyah's last album in rotation ("I Care 4 U" and "More Than A Woman"). That's not to mention that Alicia Keys was still the biggest artist in R&B at the time.

It wasn't like it was some orchestrated plot to steal Ameriie's sound. It was a matter of the same producer producing a song that launched a superstar.

I heard somebody say she tried to take credit for writing the song irreplaceable.

Too many times throughout the years where I heard something shady that involves Beyonce. I don't think it's always due to jealousy either.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Didn't stop Rihanna's career. Rihanna used to sound hands down just terrible live but she got better

Amerie could have worked on it, but as she said, it's partly timing, as well as the size of the machine behind you, and of course the "it" factor.

The things with Rihanna is that she went from more R&B sounds to Dance-Pop/EDM sounding stuff (this is right when EDM started getting big in the USA) where having great vocals aren't prioritized. She also changed her image to a more edgier type with almost, Madonna-like shock value. Amerie obviously didn't want to take that route.

 

[Forlife44]

like u had a chance if she was single

 

[Standing on business]

I heard somebody say she tried to take credit for writing the song irreplaceable.

She proudly gave Neyo credit for writing that, in fact everyone knew Neyo wrote it and it wasn't even a secrect, he was the hottest song writer at the time. So who did you hear say that. Beyoncé has always gave credit to where it's due. Everyone who's worked with her has nothing bad to ever say about her








Unlike drake

 

[daboywonder2002]

It's over. She does music for fun only and doesn't have the passion for it. She loves to read and write. Creative mind basically. she just seems happy and at piece with her life and no amount of money can change that.

 

[Alfred0Santana]

In the interview she only lightly glossed over how hard it was to get one thing released. That track was almost stolen by jlo. She had to freaking leak it to radio stations to get it released. Damn no wonder she left Sony.

Amerie's manager, Len Nicholson, felt the song was "the single" to release.[2] When executives at Amerie's label, Columbia/Sony Urban Music, heard "1 Thing", they felt that the song's choruses needed to be "bigger".[1] 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.[3] Harrison and Amerie returned to the studio several times to rework the track.[1] 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.[1][3] The label continued to refuse to release "1 Thing"; in Amerie's words, "People just weren't getting it".[1]

Later in 2004, six months after recording "1 Thing", Amerie and Harrison leaked it to U.S. radio stations in an attempt to get it released officially.[1][4] The response from DJs and listeners was positive, and it consequently received airplay across the country. Columbia Records attempted to suppress the song because it was an unofficial release, and because Jennifer Lopez (another artist on the label) had expressed interest in recording the song for her own album, Rebirth.[4] Radio stations refused to retract the song from their playlists, and Columbia eventually began promoting "1 Thing" as a single, making it a last-minute addition to the Hitch soundtrack.[1]Lopez settled on another Harrison-produced, funk-infused track, the Usher outtake "Get Right".[4]

Dirty game

 

[Budda]

I see what you're saying, but it's two separate issues really. Ameriie didn't write "Crazy In Love". It just happens to be produced by her producer. From my understanding, when Rich did "Crazy In Love", Beyoncé had left the studio and he had like an hour to come up with the record.

At most Ameriie is an influence that Beyoncé doesn't acknowledge, which is no surprise because Beyoncé's style is comprised of styles from many women across genres. Kelis is another influence that is unspoken of.

Kelis influence?

Explain pls.

 

[darealvelle]

Even ameriie know that Stephen Kings book "IT ain't no joke.

 

[JustCKing]

Kelis influence?

Explain pls.

Listen to Kelis's "Bossy" and compare it to "Diva". There's also similarities between "ring The Alarm" and "Caught Out There".

 

[Budda]

Listen to Kelis's "Bossy" and compare it to "Diva". There's also similarities between "ring The Alarm" and "Caught Out There".

Yeah i kind of got the jist of what you were saying and agree, just wanted it clarified.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

The things with Rihanna is that she went from more R&B sounds to Dance-Pop/EDM sounding stuff (this is right when EDM started getting big in the USA) where having great vocals aren't prioritized. She also changed her image to a more edgier type with almost, Madonna-like shock value. Amerie obviously didn't want to take that route.

All of that supports what I said, weaker vocals don't kill a career, timing, the machine, and "it" factor are drivers. Rihanna didn't build her career on r&b, SOS was very pop and pon de replay was dancehall/island...unfaithful was a huge pop ballad. Rih had the machine and Umbrella was the "it" factor that pushed her to true stardom, without the right team making sure she got that track after Britney, her career doesn't go the same way.

 

[Niqqa You Gay]

Where the new EP?

 

[Deltron]

Where the new EP?

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/ameriie-x-fabolous-every-time-single-drive-ep-stream.429189/

 

[jadillac]

I remember I was in college and I bought her first JUST for the cover.



But yeah she didn't have that "it" factor. Plus the game was crowded back then. Beyonce, Ashanti, Teiarra Marie, and several other random chicks.

Plus she was a little too classy