This is around the time that record companies were starting to become 100% focused on looks and "personality" rather than talent. I was told that Amerie didn't have that sex appeal that folks were looking for. After that Beyoncé had filled up the middle eight, she came up with the catchphrase - "Uh-oh, uh-oh, you know" - alongside Harrison. The bridge was written by Beyoncé, who was inspired by looking at herself in the mirror as she was not wearing matching clothes and her hair was untidy, she kept saying, "I'm looking so crazy right now." Harrison sang back to her and said, "That's the hook." It also inspired the title of the song. Harrison had also made provision for a backing track he played all the instruments on the track. But two hours later, he had written the verses, and the hook, in spite of being hung over. Harrison confessed that it was not easy for him to come up with the lyrics to "Crazy in Love" in that length of time. Nevertheless, Beyoncé became friendlier to the sample, much to Harrison's delight, and gave him two hours to write and compose the song while she went out.
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When Harrison played the sample to Beyoncé in the studio, the singer initially had doubts about the "sound so full of blaring fanfare " it seemed too retro and according to her, no one used horn riffs in the 21st century. However, things did not turn up according to his plans the following day as he was late and was still suffering the effects of a hangover. Harrison was pleasantly surprised when he got a call from Beyoncé, who was working on one of the most anticipated albums of the year. People do not really get it and you will leave them with a foul taste in their mouth." Harrison decided not to market the selection, and instead, he waited for the right artist to record it: "I had it in the chamber, I had not really shopped it much, because sometimes you do not want to come out of the bag before it's right. When Harrison first played the beat to his friends, they could not "dig it," and this made him realize that he had conceived something special, which people would appreciate better after hearing the whole record. He sampled the hook's instrumentation from the 1970 song "Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)," originally written and composed by Eugene Record, frontman of the Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites. Playing the blame game on Beyonce for all the failures of these R&B chicks is old.īefore meeting Beyoncé, Rich Harrison had conceptualized the beat of the song. The facts & receipts are out s yall relying on revisionist history & LSA tea.
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"Crazy In Love" is not "Crazy In Love" WITHOUT beyonce.the hook & the title came directly from her.
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how can a song that wasnt even existing be "hers" in 2002? he said he didnt even shop the song b/c the few friends he played it for all gave it a thumbs down so he locked it down in the vault until Bey came. Now i'll wait for the Amerie stans to explain this.all he had was just a horn sample.no lyrics, no hook, no title. Why dont we ask these questions of Christina Milian? "Dip It Low" was a bigger hit than "1 Thing".ĮXCELLENT question! Also, are ANY of them going to post the actual song CIL supposedly jacked BEFORE 1 thing was released 2 YEARS later? yet folks act like Amerie was really ever dominating and that she was nothing more than 1 hit wonder & demise was such a shocker.
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lots of females have not sustained.even some of Beyonce's peers who were 15x more successful than Amerie. and decided to get on the sound herself and couldn't sustain. There will never be a comparison between those 2 songs besides the fact that Amerie saw the sound that worked between Beyonce & Rich. In 2016 ALONE."Crazy In Love" was streamed 70 million times compared to "1 Thing" which doesn't even have 20 million streams in its TOTAL streaming history. We can go down the list of CIL's accolades down through the years since 2003ĬIL is still being featured in soundtracks & is being used in commercials 14 years later.