Re: Donell Jones Where I Wanna Be Album Download Zip
Rivka Licklider
"That's another one that was produced by myself and Sheldon Goode, and also, it was co-written by a guy named Jolyon Skinner. We just wanted to write something where a female could sing it, but we singing it from a male's perspective. And basically, it was about this chick, she's in a relationship with somebody else, but you wanna know and she ain't really giving you no answers about what she's going through with this other relationship. Most guys, we really don't talk about that kind of stuff 'cause it's like, 'I don't care, if you hooking me up, I'm good.' But it was basically to sing a song from a male's perspective, but it's really something that females go through. So, it was like, maybe if a female hears this song, maybe she might be going through this. And that's what we were gearing towards, more like a female audience but singing it from a male's perspective."
"That record was more about just giving your love to a woman and letting her know that she's the reason why everything's going great for your life. You wanna spend the rest of your life with her and nothing can come between that. And on that particular record I just went all out, I went and hired live strings, I got live congas, one of the first records where I actually just went all the way. It cost a hell of a lot of money to do it, but we hired a whole string ensemble, guitars, the whole record was pretty much live. We went there with that record. Unfortunately, it wasn't a single but it's one of the records a lot of people love still today."
"The reason why I did that record was on my first album, I had a lot of samples, it was sample-heavy. So I didn't wanna lose that element cause I know people would say 'Damn, what happened to that Donell?' I wanted to have at least one sample record on the album and the Curtis Mayfield record just fit perfectly. And the song is about 'you wasn't there for me, so I'm out. I wanna do something different.'"
"I really appreciated the fact that she jumped on that record. And it didn't just boost my career, but hers as well, 'cause now people are looking at her like she could drop a solo album 'cause at that time, I really don't think she had done anything outside of TLC. It was a beautiful thing when that record came out. I was still a little nervous because my first single, 'Shorty Got Her Eyes On Me,' didn't really take off. But the funny thing about it is, once 'You Know What's Up' came out and took off, it was like 'S---, I can't go nowhere without performing 'Shorty Got Her Eyes On Me too' [laughs]. I guess people fell in love with the song all over again after 'You Know What's Up' came out. But when that record went No. 1 [on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop charts], I couldn't believe it, and it stayed No. 1 for eight weeks, man, going into 2000. It was the last No. 1 R&B record of the century. So it was just a beautiful thing, it was just meant to be and I just really appreciated that girl for jumping on that record, man. Left Eye, man, she really put her foot in it."
\"That's another one that was produced by myself and Sheldon Goode, and also, it was co-written by a guy named Jolyon Skinner. We just wanted to write something where a female could sing it, but we singing it from a male's perspective. And basically, it was about this chick, she's in a relationship with somebody else, but you wanna know and she ain't really giving you no answers about what she's going through with this other relationship. Most guys, we really don't talk about that kind of stuff 'cause it's like, 'I don't care, if you hooking me up, I'm good.' But it was basically to sing a song from a male's perspective, but it's really something that females go through. So, it was like, maybe if a female hears this song, maybe she might be going through this. And that's what we were gearing towards, more like a female audience but singing it from a male's perspective.\"
\"That record was more about just giving your love to a woman and letting her know that she's the reason why everything's going great for your life. You wanna spend the rest of your life with her and nothing can come between that. And on that particular record I just went all out, I went and hired live strings, I got live congas, one of the first records where I actually just went all the way. It cost a hell of a lot of money to do it, but we hired a whole string ensemble, guitars, the whole record was pretty much live. We went there with that record. Unfortunately, it wasn't a single but it's one of the records a lot of people love still today.\"
\"The reason why I did that record was on my first album, I had a lot of samples, it was sample-heavy. So I didn't wanna lose that element cause I know people would say 'Damn, what happened to that Donell?' I wanted to have at least one sample record on the album and the Curtis Mayfield record just fit perfectly. And the song is about 'you wasn't there for me, so I'm out. I wanna do something different.'\"
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