"I didn't come here to get a such-and-such record, I came here to get an Amerie record that we're gonna create together." "I like to work with people who are willing to create something with me, versus just giving me just their off-the-rack track," Amerie says of her collaborators. Baby, you're no good for me, no!" Her vocal trills morph into growls as the beat threatens to boil over.
Unlike the chorus of "1 Thing," here our hero finds herself suspended in a different type of romantic disbelief: "Why are you the only thing that I care about?. You can hear it in lead single "Why R U" - a pining love song with a scrappy boom-bap track courtesy of the production team the Buchanans. In a world where uber-producers like The-Dream, Timbaland and Danja often play musical chairs with pop's A-list vocal cords, listening to the radio can have a particularly numbing effect - one that makes Amerie's grittiness feel all the more resonant. "They don't really sound like themselves - they just sound like the producer who did the record. "On the radio, you have a lot of artists sounding like each other," Amerie says between bites of bruschetta. Weaving urgent melodies through sandpapery beats, it's an album tailor-made to stand out in an era where R&B singers are often treated as interchangeable parts in the great American pop machine. release after a lengthy four-year absence. On Tuesday, Amerie will try to do it again with "In Love & War," her first U.S. "It's this one thing and I was so with it," she belts on the song's delirious refrain. Half diva, half brainiac, this is a Georgetown University graduate who likes to read science magazines while she prepares for her latest photo shoot, a team of handlers fussing over her hair.īut most know Amerie as the voice behind 2005's chart-topping R&B single "1 Thing." With its bursts of percussion and ribbons of insistent melody, the song remains one of our decade's most revelatory pieces of pop music. "It has the same pH balance as our tears," the 29-year-old singer explains. It's lunchtime at Seraphina in Midtown Manhattan and Amerie is ransacking her purse, searching for a shaker of Himalayan salt. Get locked in below.Despite receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews for her just-released CD,"In Love & War", the set sold an appalling 12,000 copies in its debut week.Īn interview she gave to the Washington Post on the eve of the album's debut gives us a hint of what to expect from her in the future:Īmerie Wants to be More Than A '1 Thing' Wonder As the collective explain, the playlist features current favourites – the kind they’d typically draw for during a set – along with “a couple of Girls Don’t Sync classics” and “ some music we love made by our mates and a handful of producers from all over the world who we have so much respect for.”įrom infectious R&B refixes ( “a Girl’s Don’t Sync playlist will always be peppered with guaranteed singalong vibes”) through to tracks by the likes of Anz, Yung Singh and KG (“ massive fans of them, what they stand for and what they represent within the industry”) it’s a club-ready collection that also spotlights several of GDS’s peers – L8 Night Sounds and Ell Murphy among them. Their Selections playlist brings together the party-starting inspirations informing their musical practice. From the bond between the collective’s members through to the connections they make with fans on the dancefloor, the four-piece view the project as an opportunity to give back, collaborate and inspire others. Formed during lockdown, Girls Don’t Sync (or GDS for short) have been making waves in the time since through their raucous sets at Printworks, EartH and Somerset House.įriendship, community and the celebration of such matters is at the heart of Girls Don’t Sync. Girls Don’t Sync, the all-female DJ collective comprised of friends Matty Chiabi, G33, Sophia Violet and Hannah Lynch, are the latest artists to provide us with a collection of tracks.
#AMERIE 1 THING DRUM COVER SERIES#
Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.
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