Amerie - Why R U

Random Lyric:

Wasted all my time

And here I am still crying over you

Over you

This one is confusing. Amerie is singing sweet lyrics to a man who is the only guy she's caring about. It's a love song in the tradition of the lyrics she wrote when she was being nominated for Grammys.

So why did her producers handicap her with an old beat from the Ultramagnetic MCs? That's the confusing part. Here's an artist who has a recognizable voice and some accolades and some producer puts a big 808 sound on it? Remember how disappointed you were when you heard Alicia Keys sing "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore" and about half way through a potential torch song classic, somebody decided you needed some big beats? You get the same effect here. A song full of pining love for a man that Amerie considers the only one is destroyed because someone had cleared a sample and couldn't wait to use it rather than trying to find the right music for the song.

So here is a potential winner that sounds like it's a patchwork of disparate elements masqurading as the come back song for Amerie. The original song was called "Ego Trippin'." That's exactly what the producers were doing here. It sounds like they tried to recreate the Mary J. Blige sound from the early 90s, but forgot that Puff Daddy is nothing more than a talent thief, not a real producer.

Banger or booty: booty (with apologies to the talented Amerie - it's not her fault)