Wrong era….thats been done before…Next song

Wow, I didn’t know Solange had it in her. This joint is straight up fire!! Love the video also.

She broke her foot because a metal crane from the door as she was walking to the stage fell on it and she still performed live and sounded pretty good live (video on youtube) Go head solange! Use the haters as motivation. Like my mama says haters are like toliet paper let them do their job(hate and motivate) them flush and keep extra on the side for another day. Hell it’s better then most videos in the past year including all of beyonce’s b-day videos. It’s creative and grown and less junior high like big sister. Solange if you read this I enjoy your blog and laughed my ass off at the childbirth comment. Funny. I like your personality.

that is the cutest video,so creative,and she looks so pretty. Go Solange….im def gettin that album

wow. im surprised! i actually liked it

Love the song, and even the remix… watched the making of the video and she gave me a lost tease… ummmm

Solange keep doing your thang. I just read the article she did with Clutch and I can see why she said the following: EFF misconceptions, pardon my French. I like a good laugh every once in a while. I stopped trying to “prove” and “undo” misconceptions a while ago. I’m unexplainable. Most Humans are.

Forget what people say about you and do your own thing. Cause if you listen to other people you would be somewhere holed up going out of your mind. Do what YOU want to do and whatever your heart desires. It’s your life and only you can live it. Keep it pushing girl!!

Amy Whinehouse anyone?? Perhaps dreamgirls?? naw..its totally orginal!!

@ MooveandGroove

Though I like this song, I’m glad you too see that Solange’s style IS NOT original. The flashback to the past type of music is big on the radar these days (largely due to Amy Winehouse to be honest) and she’s (Solange) simply jumping on the paddy wagon. You know, like she did with her first album a few years ago when dancehall/raggae was the big thing thanks to Sean Paul.

In the words of her bro in law:
You only know what you see,
You dont understand what it takes to be me
You only know what you see,
You dont understand what it takes to be me

Go head Solo. Do you girl. And to the people saying she’s not original….newsflash NOBODY IS TRULY ORIGINAL. This world has been here for billions of years so of course something is going to be done again. Any to the person who talked about her being this and dat when she was a teenager…it’s called growth and we all have the god given right to change our minds and be something at some point and different at another point. SMH

Sweetie, sweetie, you misunderstand. I’m criticizing Solange for following trends (hence, “jumping on the paddywagon”) not for changing styles. The point is quite obvious in my previous posting. It requires no high order thinking skills to understand.

SOLANGE I SEE YOU. now this is a video.

I love this song!
I wasn’t gonna listen to it because im not a fan of solange’s singing but i finally listened to it and im impressed.

I’m Feelin’ it, I had it on my Ipod then deleted it but the video made me put it back.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this song more and more everytime I hear it. The video is just ok… Solange is doing her thing, she definitely has her own vibe, and it’s pretty different than not only her sister, but any other R&B chicks out there right now.

Nice job Solange…do your thing girl!!!!

#136
You are obviously just a Beyonce hater. You think Solange looks better and that B c.d was garbage? LMFAO Well 7 million people bought Beyonce c.d and she has been on over a 100 magazine covers so obviously millions of people disagree with you. You are very delusional. Solange doesn’t even come close.

#136 you a hater. You think Solange looks betta than Bee and that Bee c.d was garbage? ROTFLMAO!!! Well 7 million ppl bought Bee c.d and she has been on over a hundred magazine covers so obviously millions of ppl disagree with you. Stop drinking that haterade. I like Solange but she dont even come close to Bee. You are definitely in the minority.LMAO

Go Solo! I love her and Bey! They are so beautiful and talented!

SOLANGE TO THE F-ING WOOORRRRLLLLLLD!!!!!

GO SOLANGE!!!!!!!

Solange Video and new single is hot!!!!!!!! A really good look! REFRESHING VOTE FOR HER AND SUPPORT HER! SHE HAS SOMETHING HERE!…..

@ Sweetie

Baby, this isn’t growth. This is TRULY, the PADDYWAGON….

GOOD LUCK TO HER IM REALLY FEELING HER WHOLE VIBE THEN THE FACT THAT SHE NOT BITING OFF HER SIS YEA THATS WASSUP

I HOPE SHE MAKE GOD GIVEN NAME HER NEXT SINGLE

ON AA DIFFERENT PAGE BE SURE TO GO GET ASHANTI NEW ALBUM ITS FIRE MATTER OF FACT IN ASHANTI WORDS “ITS BANANAS”

me gusta! wasn’t anything that i expected from her. you better work!

This is a really tough audience to please we would do better supporting each other

I thought it was just……Well….Ok. Nothing more. Nothing less. Just ok.
Maybe it just has to grow on me. Both the song and the video.Hmmm…IDK.

WOW.
She looks so much like B in that future scene.
I like it.

Not buying it, this will not even get radio play. The song is ok and that’s it. The video sucks.

i’m so shocked but i REALLY like this song. you go solange!!

@ 5
I thought the same thing. sounds like the songs aren’t mixed. I think they did it puposely though, to give it tha “old school” recording sound.

The songs i’v heard from her album reminds me of the direction Amy Winehouse went in on her album…

Nice though. And she looked pretty

I got bored.I wonder what is the next bandwagon people going to jump on because I would to see it.

If it seems Dreamgirls to you, Solange has said that her and Beyonce’ were making the choreography for this video.

But like someone who said about Amy Winehouse, she did on a maintstream level.But I think Teedra bought the sound back because For A Lifetime was like 2004..and everybody hopped around 2005 and 2006.

I LOVE THE SONG, ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE STOOD OUT AS A DIFFERENT KIND OF ARTIST THAT HER BIG SIS, THEY LOOK SO MUCH ALIKE, BLINK REALLY FAST AND YOU SEE BEYONCE, BUT IM GLAD SHE HAS HER OWN SOUND, SOUNDS REALLY GOOD, I’LL GIVE IT A THUMBS UP.

I really like the song, it’s got a nice groove to it. Like the video, it’s so different from the B.S. that is out there. Gon girl, do ya thang!

Loved it the video looks, her, and of course the song…im so proud she isn’t in B’s shadow….go girl

To those sayin she’s just jumpin on the Amy bandwagon she said she was gonna do this sound for her second album before she got pregnant back in 2004, of course her pregnacy made her have to put her album on hold, but she had the concept back then. Peep the song “Freedom” she did for the Johnson Family Vacation soundtrack in 04, it’s very similar to her newer stuff.

Anyways love the song and the video, Solange is doing big thangs and the haters can’t take.

Love the Song.. but the video looks cheap to me…. the song is a fun song, but video has nothing to do with the song, maybe too much was going on in it. it’s fun girly song, she was taking the song too serious.

for me and my imagination.. i picture solange, at a slumber party waiting for her boyfriend, singing into a hairbrush to her girl friends, while they flip channels on a old tv, , on that tv, should have the scenes in the video… and her boyfriend could come across all kinds of obstacles trying to get to her.. solange could be singing to teddy bear that her boyfriend won for her as some street fair … and the video ends with the boyfriend coming to the door with flowers.

now that would be fun, something that people can relate to.. ya know .

blkpoetx

I loved it! I think I might buy her album if the rest of it sounds like this!

I’m SO loving this video. Unlike the Gnarls vid that everyone was on… this actually had substantial plot/conclusion/substance and I’m so feeling it. If her album has as much power and substance as this video did, she may give something that Beyonce couldn’t. To me, B was always the independent yet prototype trophy wife. They always played up her beauty and her songs always played up on how open she got for a guy while being “independent.” Solange lets her music speak for her and she’s is def. doing things diff. than B. I like this and I love this song and I LOVE LOVE the vid even more. I can’t wait to see what she brings to this lifeless period of R&B music.

Also don’t bitch about me comparing her to B. B and Mary is the only successful MAINSTREAM females WHO ACTUALLY CAN SING doing things in he R&B world. So in otherwords… its a compliment.

UB YOU HAVE LOST YOUR MIND THINKING AMY CRACKHOUSE BROUGHT BACK THE “BACK IN THE DAY” VIBE. SHE IS A COPY OF SO MANY BLACK BLUES SINGERS ITS RIDICULOUS…

SOLANGE PERFORMED AT THE HOB IN LA AND WAS AWESOME. HER STAGE PRESENCE AND HER VOICE WERE GREAT. SHE DEFINITELY IS A PERFORMER IN HER OWN RIGHT… AND SO WHAT IF SHE IS BEYS LIL SIS..LOOK AT MOST PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY..ACTORS, SINGERS..MOST ARE RELATED TO SOMEONE! I MEAN LOOK AT RUMOR WILLIS, ZOE KRAVITZ…AT LEAST SOLANGE HAS SOME TYPE OF TALENT.

GLAD SHE ISNT GOING THE POPPY R&B RAP VIBE THAT LETOYA LUCKETT AND ALL THESE SO CALLED SINGERS TRY TO GO. SHE IS DIFFRENTIATING HERSELF AND DOING A GREAT JOB. I LOVE THE VIDEO AND LOVED HER PERFORMANCE. YALL CAN SAY SHE WILL BE IN BEYS BACKGROUND BUT SAY WHAT YOU WANT….MOST ENTERTAINERS IN THE GAME HAD SOMEONE HELP THEM GET THEIR FOOT IN THE DOOR..SOLANGE HAS TALENT LIKE HER SIS AND I COMMEND AND WILL SUPPORT HER!

SOLANGE CAN SING..IF YOU HAVENT SEEN HER LIVE THEN DONT COMMENT

Lol at #33.
I like this video though, it’s cool.
at the end, in the ‘future’ part, she looks exactly like Bey at some moments…

I watched solange sing live and was shocked at how great her vocals are, she has a really really good voice. The live performance was better vocally than the record

Girl is doing her thing. I’ve loved this song since I first heard it. It takes a brave person to do something totally different (from what’s out now) and I’m glad Solange took that chance. I love it! Solange needs to bring this song (and album, cos I’ve liked what I’ve heard so far) over to the UK

Now everybody is’nt celeb. The history part is decent but she isn’t hot. No STAR power to me…………….sorry Solange

Solange is talented. She choreographed this video and even came up with the treatment for it as she usually does. She’s a writer and producer. I heard her sing live minutes after breaking her foot and she killed it - even did little dance moves. Can’t hate on her talent. Looking forward to her album - Sandcastle Disco is fire.

She must have gotten singing/vocal lessons. She sounds pretty good on this single. Singing LIVE is the real test though!! As for the video…

A BABY BEYONCE! the whole thing reminds me of past BEYONCE videos.

What does the song have to do with the video?

I like that she’s conscious, no doubt, but I would also like some focus.

I am just interested to see what she has to say on that doggone blog. I read her stuff on her myspace so i don’ imagine that this will be much different? Or will it? Maybe she just needed space to say whatever she wanted to say without being in the confines of another person’s webpage? I don’t know. But she is popping up everywhere within the last couple of days. I hope that she does well and I hope that the album lives up to the hype.

NO HATE HERE! I liked the video and I like the song,too.

Aesthetically the video was great……the song though I’ve tried to like it and I don’t.

Thats VIDEO IS FIYA!! Never thought she had it in her! Very impressive. Its actually better than Michelle’s VIdeo. But thats because Solange was a smart woman and moved away from Beyo..I mean Music World Music. Very smart and savy girl.

I’m sorry but I just don’t think it’s as unique as everyone else is saying. Seen it all before.
Is it me or does it seem like Beyonce and Solange are the only ones from Music World entitled to decent budgets for their videos?
Kelly and Michelle got played!
Where’s Sunshine Anderson, Trinitee 5:7 and the like?

What the hell was that?

SOLANGE IS A THEIF!!!

it’s too similar to be just a random coincidence. ‘you decide’!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V8s1EbxEjY

Cute song AND video! I actually like both, wow! lol

Damn JAMMMMMS

You’re right. Her video is identical to the one you posted. I’m not surprised though. This chick is clearly a wannabe. I don’t buy for one second that she’s eclectic and profound. Her “image” is a straight up gimmick! The jig is up.

I absolutely, positively loved the video and I am crazy about the song and the video concept. Solange looked so beautiful. She really did her thing. Cant wait for the album to come out. I will be at the store the day it comes out. Until then I’ll be purchasing the single. Keep it up Solonge, loved the voice. Now is your time, go for it. You and the video are completely hot, good luck, proud of you!

Well do y’all know that Solange is gonna be on TV this week? Everyone should check her out!

106 & Park Thursday June 12, 2008 6pm ET on BET
TRL June 11, 2008 3:30-4:30 PM ET on MTV.

i love solange so i decided to put her lyrics here

I Decided

I was a little different
I didn’t do what the best girls do
You studied my rhythm
Now you can speed me up when you want to

They were to cool to run my race
You kept the pace with a smile on ya face
Go head baby
Then I knew he was you

But first you took me around
Introduced me to your family and friends
And told them how that once we met that
We would never lose
Oh boy

I decided that you are the him for me
Oh boy
I decided that you are the him for me
Oh boy

How’s it feel to win it
Where ain’t no mountains that you can’t move
Your mind is like a prism
For god’s light to shine throw

They were to cool to run my race
You kept the pace with a smile on ya face
Go head baby
Then I knew he was you

But first you took me around
Introduced me to your family and friends
And told them how that once we met that
We would never lose
Oh boy

I decided that you are the him for me
Oh boy
I decided that you are the him for me
Oh boy

You were running me running me down
Telling me telling me wait
Running me down and telling me you were never gonna let go
Is the way you got me

You were running me running me down
Telling me telling me wait
Running me down and telling you were never gonna let go
Is the way you got me

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
Don’t break my heart
Let me take it from you
Cause were on and the closer I get
To you the more fearful I become
That would break me in two Honey

I decided that you are the him for me
Oh boy
I decided that you are the him for me
Oh boy

You were running me running me down
Telling me telling me wait
Running me down and telling you were never gonna let go
Is the way you got me

You were running me running me down
Telling me telling me wait
Running me down and telling you were never gonna let go
Is the way you got me

i really like the song. she looks a lot like beyonce in the future scenes. but she will never ever be Beyonce.

[...] recently released her new video for “I Decided” and is currently on tour with Chrisette Michele and Raheem DeVaughn. Her new album, SoL-Angel [...]

@ 54 what the hell r u talking about! Ashley SImpson is way bigger than jessica! both of her records have hit number 1…she makes more money at her concerts….plz jessica has yet 2 do any of that….her records have yet 2 hit the top 5!

LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!! GO SOLO….I’M HAPPY SHE IS DOING HER OWN THING AND IS DOING WELL AT IT…KEEP IT UP! I KNOW I’M GETTING THAT ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i luv dis song
some people might not like but i do

that back up dancer was sira from college hill…do ya thang africa..lol
this is a very cute video…probably the best solange has ever done. very eclectic and unique.shes finally coming out of beyonces shadow.