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Amerie - "1 Thing"

Here's an odd one. This song really doesn't seem to do much of anything. It's certainly not the sound of someone trying to take over the world with a new career defining hit single. It's just this messy, directionless beat with a coldly professional vocal navigating the waters. While it's totally without pretense, it's also devoid of ambition, as if this kind of thing has been done a million times before, saturating the charts for God knows how long. The trick is, it hasn't been done a million times before. And unless it's 2010, there's a ways to go before we hit "YAWN I'm bored of this" critical mass. Genre exercise from the future.
- posted by Shane @ 11:31 PM
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