THis is the EXACT SAME BEAT that was on “One Thing.” Whatever happened to real musicians (like Maxwell, Sade, 3000, Seal, D’Angelo, etc)? Bitch get some talent.

And one more thing, Miss Amerie. You need to pay EVERY CENT you make from this song back to Sam and Dave (Circa 1968), you talentless hack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5TrWpdhRo

me again did not finish …

I am from europe, Belguim, ( waffles and near France) and in France she explosed with the song ” one phink” and then that was it , like a one hit wonder , french are like that, no taste in music !!! never heard about her before that in France !!! …and ” one phing” was not the best song of the album!!!
anyway.. the beginning of her new album is awful, I tried hard to listen to it but it just burn my ears!!! so I listen to the album from song 8 … I thought I never be disapointed with her albums but next time I will downlaod it instead of buy it …sorry amerie ..

take care k-reen from Belguim and thanks to CL for all the info, video… and sorry for my english … bye everyone..

k-reen

Looks just like the “One Thing” video
too much like it
even the wardrobe, the drummers, the song even

after 10 secs i couldn’t take it no more.

i miss the old, non screaming amerie.

Amerie is not relevant to me. When you got Rihanna, Beyonce, Ciara and Keyisha Cole etc. as your competition you gotta come harder then this. She sticks to the same formula all the time, and obviously its not as successful as it could be. This video looks like videos she’s done in the past, there is nothing new and fresh about it. I got Amerie’s first album and I dig it, but after that, she has just fallen off. She cannot compete. In addition, what the hell did the video have to do with the song? Dancing around lookin pretty is not gon to cut it. Not to mention she look awkward as hell when she was dancing. She needs to go back to the drawing board and try again. You can’t be a winner if you’re not even in the race.

Y’ALL NEED TO STOP WITH ALL THESE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT BEYONCE STEALING HER SOUND.AMERIE NEVA OWNED OR PATENTED THE GO GO SOUND.WHEN AMERIE DROPPED HER FIRST ALBUM, SHE WASN’T DOING THE AGRESSIVE, FAST PACE SONGS, SHE WAS ABOUT THE LAID BACK MID-TEMPO AND BALLADS SONGS. IT WASN’T UNTIL MS BEYONCE DROPPED ‘CRAZY IN LOVE’ , AND IT BECAME A GLOBAL SMASH HIT, THEN AMERIE SWITCHED HER STYLE, AND CAME OUT WITH ‘1 THING’, WHICH HAD SIMILAR MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS(FROM THE HORNS TO THE DRUMS) TO ‘CRAZY IN LOVE’. SO IN ACTUALITY AMERIE TOOK THE SOUND BEYONCE CREATED WITH RICH HARRISON FIRST, AND DECIDED TO EXPLORE IT FURTHER ON HER SECOND ALBUM, WHICH CAME OUT AFTER BEYONCE FIRST ALBUM. IT’S FUNNY NOBODY MENTION THE FACT THAT JLO(GET RIGHT) AND TONI BRAXTON(TAKE THE RING) BOTH EXPERIMENTS WITH THAT SOUND TOO, THEY BOTH WORKED WITH RICH HARRISON. AMERIE HAS NO REASON TO UPSET ABOUT RICH HARRISON GIVING OUT THAT SOUND TO OTHER ARTIST,COZ SHE WASN’T EVEN THE FIRST ARTIST TO USE THAT SOUND, SHE REALLY NEED TO SUCK IT UP AND GO BACK TO RICH HARRISON,BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SOUND SHE STARTED WITH COZ HER LATEST STUFF JUST PUTS HER IN BEYONCE’S SHADOW.

She did in fact get a nose job, but she was beautiful before as well. The finest RnB chick out there IMO.

If I ever saw her in person i would find some kind of way to impregnate her.
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hot legs!

Amerie forgot that she’s half asian. What a shame.

Great video! She is oh so sexy!! Tha video remind’s me of “1 THING”.I can’t wait untill tha album drop’s in tha U.S.

wow amerie i thought though out her life career she would pick up some type of creative thinking but oh well :0

no amerie, no no NO! I knew she was gonna release this song but im hella mad that she did. Im a huge amerie fan but this single doesnt show her growth at all. It sounds like one thing. I really wish she wouldve released crazy wonderful or crush. those songs are waaaay too addictive. And if those dont become hits then I dont know what will from her.

Of course nobody would really grasp into her material because she doesn’t ji-rate around the stage and booty popping like the rest of the high-paid strippers are doing.

I like her…I miss the whole Go Go thing. Amerie’s album Touch was hot from begining to end. This one is like Tweets first album - it takes you a minute to understand it….but once you do you love it.

I love amerie too thats why when ever she comes out with something i kid myself into thinking its a Hot Track. some of them are warm but seem incomplete i dont know what it is. The beats shes using are weak too. cant make a good song with out a good beat.im hoping she has at least one Summer Hit on her Album but from what ive heard so far it looks like this album is just gonna Fade to black when it drops

BRIAN WHY DO YOU HATE AMERIE SO MUCH??
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HATER.

Not a fan of Amerie, but like tha video…just tha song is just like tha last song she made and 1thing, she should try to come with sumthing different like she did with Touch ft. TI, now then she could be on2sumthing

She sucks in my opinion!!
She cannot sing at all but shes pretty so i guess she’ll sale some records!

I actually kinda like Amerie but WTF?
So did this bitch just go to the studio and remake ‘One Thing’ and then go and remake the ‘One Thing’ video.

She’s pretty as hell though!

Amerie is fine as hell, but this song in wack as hell, i know she can come better than that!

She is beautiful, I love her and her music, but she can come better than that. I hope she comes out with “Paint Me Over”, “When Loving You Was Easy”, or “That’s What U R”. Those are great songs.

Compton, Foxxy, Bill, Chante, and everybody!
What’s up?

She is a very pretty girl, this video looks like the ONE THING VIDEO… I don’t know what else to say she needs to go back in the studio and revamp herself. I feel like every female artist is trying to be Beyonce and there will never be another Bee… be orginal and that should be good enough for your FANS.

i love it and she looks fab in this video!

I am a huge Amerie fan, her first album was amazing. Her second album had a couple of great tracks … but this is not her best at all. I think she is just going through a phase and I hope she finds herself because all of her new material is too much for me … too much big band, shouting, sex kitten appeal … it just doesn’t seem like her to me. Seems like she is trying to hard. She has a great voice though.

even though her vocals sound faltering/strained or something strange to me occassionally on some of her tracks, i love this song. it does remind me of 1 thing, but oh well… she knows how to look fab for sure in her videos!

Also, everyone knows she has great legs but geez, she found like a million ways to show them off in every shot during this video. Am I the only one who noticed that?

Hey MJ!!! I’m good, what’s up?

Well, maybe my ears are different from yours, but I fail to see how “Gotta Work” is worse than songs like “Buy You a Drank”, “Get Me Bodied” and any other crap that’s popular now and days. This song actually shows talent and has a good meaning, but I guess America doesn’t like.

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“Amerie is not relevant to me. When you got Rihanna, Beyonce, Ciara and Keyisha Cole etc. as your competition you gotta come harder then this.”
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I disagree. Rihanna and Ciara are not good singers in the least, and listening to their paper-thin voices annoys me. Beyonce and Keyshia are good singers, but Keyshia Cole and Amerie sing different kind of songs, so I don’t see how they could be competition.

And for the love of God, Beyonce is NOT the ONLY female singer out right now. I am tired of seeing so many people compare just every female singer to Beyonce, and I ONLY see this online! This is not a “Beyonce vs. Amerie” battle. It is very possible to like BOTH artists. And I’m sorry, but Beyonce’s “B’Day” was crap. Beyonce is so much better than songs like “Upgrade U” and “Kitty Kat.”

she is beautiful i like in te first like 7 sec there is a part when it looks like she is gettin krumped lol but this video reminds me of 1 thing video

Good, Chante’!

I always liked Amerie. That first single, why dont we fall in love or something like that was my jam. I just think people cant relate to her right now. I mean come on, we are living in a time where chicken noodle soup won a soul train award. People just need to get real.

To everyone else who is dissing Amerie, you all need to quit it and stop bashing Amerie. You people on here are making me sick because half of you who are complaining about Amerie’s voice, are the same one’s who support that untalented island girl, and you all know who I’m talking about. Amerie is one of the fewest R&B singers of today who do real R&B music and who is really singing. When I read comments on here about that “5 headed alien” many of you say that it doesn’t matter that she can’t sing, get over it, this is how music is, she can’t sing but has hot songs and is pretty.

So why the hell when someone tries something different, puts out a positive message in songs, and is actually singing, many of you wanna clown her voice and her material? It’s one thing not to be feeling Amerie, but to all of you who support all these bubblegum artists, you don’t have the room to be complaining about how Amerie screams when she sings. Also, yes Amerie does have nice legs so why are ya’ll complaining about her showing them. It’s better than her shaking and showing her ass like that “boring and over exposed female singer” and getting naked in paint and spreading her coochie like that “island singer.”

Anyway, the video was hot. Amerie looked very classy and stylish. She is very beautiful but is also very talented. I must say that I can’t stand this song and tried to get into it, but couldn’t. Amerie can sang her ass off but these past years she’s been singing too damn high and yelling and screeching in songs. In her first album, her voice was so nice and low and her vocals were calm. I loved the production on Because I Love It. I liked what she was going for but some of the songs on the album needed to be replaced with something new and fresh. Paint Me Over aint no damn joke though. That song is simply beautiful and real R&B. I hope Amerie is reading comments from her true fans because if she wants to continue her music career over here, she needs to take the constructive criticism and come back stronger.

I know, I know, sorry bout the long paragraphs. LOL

Ummmm who said she was trying to be Beyonce’?There is more to life than “Beyonce.” I mean damn (Lord Forgive me) do any of you stop thinking about this chick for 0.03234 seconds of your life or is she the light of your life.

It’s alright. I like it.

I said it once and I’ll say it again. Chick is pretty but whatelse? The dance sequence looks like Crazy in love on crack, the black with the band and the half matrix move reminds me of Promise by Ciara and when the girls are on the chairs it looks identical to Check on it by Beyonce’. And people always say Bey be swagger jackin check these other chicks out too!!!! Everybody swagger jacks! The beat sounds better when she’s not singing too. I kind of love her but I jus cant. Im on some Amy Winehouse right now so, Im not diggin this at all!

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looks like the 1 thing video, sounds a little like it at times

this song sounds like it should be on a soundtrack though

yes..it looks exactly like the other videos..she looks kind of different. AND NOT A GOOD DIFFERENT…

NEXT!

Amerie is cool but like most have already said it could have been better.

i miss the old amerie. this song sounds like her last single,she’s screaming all over the place and the video is BLAH…I watched the first 10 seconds then i lost intrest.

I really like Amerie and she makes good music. I will pick up her album cause it’s different. But I do see a problem with ther formula and there are two things i would change.

The first being showcasing her beauty before the music all the time. We know she looks good, got killer legs and a nice figure, but sometimes all of that can be distracting from the music. There’s no need to bring it front and center all the time.

The second would be to lay off the horns and drums. She has a nice voice and sounds good live, but she tries too hard sometimes to bring out emotions in a song. Toni Braxton, Sade and Anita baker can emote and don’t need to rely on straining vocals,

I like the message

I’m a big fan of sexy ass Amerie. She s the only one who threw down for the tribute to Destiny Child(Rhianna and Tiarra were horrible). Her first two albums were hot.

The last two songs I’ve heard from her are terrible. This song songs like a jacked up version of “1 thing”. Please Amerie,if you want to save this album, don’t release thbis track.

i think that Amerie is focused on her European and Asian markets where she sells well andmakes a consistent buck. In this market (the USA) where everyone is screaming to beat beyonce and make money and are more concerned about fads images and their personal exploits and column inches in USWeekly or People magazine, Amerie just does enough to stay durrent here but enough to have relevance globally. If she did some very outrageous stuff and some skimpy dressing it would disrespect the more demure cultures she is appreciated in (ie Asian markets) and her grasp on the European markets where they appreciate more the talent than the “image” of the artist.

Not saying that in America we don’t recognize talent, but being on this post as you can read from previous posts is like trying to win over a packed crowd at the Apollo theatre in Harlem NYC

@22 too true brother.

I think Amerie is judged incrdibly harshly because she doesn’t shock, push the envelope and knows her “lane”. Kudos to her.

This song has a GREAT message!!!!! That’s Whats Up!!

She need to sit down wit this Bull, She tryin waaaayyyy too hard and her songs aint goin nowhere. I nevea liked her from da Get go(lol) but I did like that one song she had out earlier last year or this year I cant remember and thats her problem she is not rememberable ,she looks nice but I seen betta and I heard betta .

I have the album this song is from and I must agree with what a few other posters have said: Because I Love It is much more than rehashing “1 Thing” (of which I never got the memo that the song was “hot”–I merely found it pleasant and a nice relief from the 2 minute songs Rich Harrison usually did for her when first hearing it on the Hitch soundtrack). It’s very much an excellent 80s’ r&b album and I hate that her record company is doing her the way Kelis was done by releasing songs that either sound the same as their first mega-hit or releasing a song that capitalizes on the current music trend (Bossy=the hyphy movement of 2006) and then dropping the ball for the next singles, and in the end, turning off people from really good albums.

And can I co-sign on the constant Beyonce comparisons? For so many people to resent her take-over of the music industry, the fire is fueled when everyone compares every single female singer to the woman. You’ve bought into Mathew Knowles plan!

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I love this song. The message is so great and so her. And honestly i luv the video I dont care if its been done before cuz it looks hot and it wrks for her.

According to kevipod.blogspot.com this is her 2nd single in the UK. We probably won’t be hearing this much anyway.

Amerie is a very pretty girl, but I wonder how far she would have gotten if she was average looking (same goes for Rhianna) But in this video, she reminds me of alot of other people, Gabrielle Union and Ciara (when shes in the black) In my opinion, her voice is mediocre at best, and her manager/man seems like he is trying to kill her career. Not to mention the subpar dancing.

And she had a nose job awhile ago, but this one does look different

Reminds me of one thing. she is really pretty, but not much of a dancer.

I really like the song - it’s a little edgy, and it actually has a MESSAGE! Go Amerie!

*yawn*

she should really work w/ other producers besides rich harrison cuz a lot of his shyt sounds the same. this beat sounds just like one thing & crazy in love.

Amerie is purty as usual and i can actually see this bein on a car commercial…lol it might make it on commercial but mainstream idk…

I didn’t know it was possible to forget a video halfway through watching it……….

Amerie, beautiful but boring. Sound is not unique or refreshing. And luv, it is criminal to recycle your own song and expect people to go out and buy it again.

Her songs are so one dimensional and not thoroughly interesting, do you really need to hear this song three times, or is one just enough.

Also, her vocal range seems somewhat constrained, that does not mean she can’t sing, but she sounds the exact same, in the same damn key all the time.

The record companies are throwin’ these light skinned beauties at us left and right. Rihanna, smart ass girl took up where Britney Spears, no sing ass too!!! left off and threw in a little rocker Pink.

Amerie leave that tired as DC gogo beat alone, it’s dead. stop being so repetetive with the lyrics. If it’s good we’ll like it.

she looks tired. and this song is mediocre for me. i like “That’s What U R!!!”

I love Amerie and she is so underrrated. Leave her alone and stop comparing her to every other chick geesh!

DEAR AMERIE:

VOCAL TRAINING IS YOUR FRIEND!

SINCERLY,

YOUR VOCAL CHORDS

All Amerie has going for her are looks and a decent body. That’s it. If she wasn’t so gorgeous, we would not be discussing her at all, period. If she was looking like Whoopi Goldberg and sounding like she does, she wouldn’t be discussed. Although she’s stunning, that still isn’t enough to make her a big success, for some reason. Like someone said, she doesn’t push the envelope or do anything interesting to make people notice her, she’s not hooked up with a famous celebrity boyfriend, and she releases music that just isn’t all that relateable to the masses of people and I believe that’s a big part of the problem. I also notice that the nose surgery seems to have affected the quality of her voice. It seemed better and stronger on her first CD. Since she’s so determined to repeat herself, she should repeat the formula of her first effort, when she actually displayed some vocal ability because the uptempo songs just highlight everything that is wrong with her voice. She isn’t memorable and the songs she’s putting out now are very bland and forgettable, as well. And I think this might be her last chance. Three strikes you’re out!

Boy I have been in LOVE with her since “Why can’t we fall in love” She can get it for life!

Amerie a talentless hack? Hardly, what other artists in her feild write and co-produce their material? And when did a r&b pop musician try to uplift your spirit and not there own bank account.

What else are you going to suggest - that she strip down and wrap herself around a poll to get your attention.