Sisqo forgets his gym bag at a basketball court and it somehow leads to his friend being killed in a Backdraft-style explosion after saving two children from a burning building. Similarly, “5 Steps” takes a pretty standard gospel tune and turns it into a very dramatic, very confusing tragedy-this one seemingly about coming of age, loyalty, love and martyrdom. And Sisqo brings a pet tiger to a backyard family picnic.
Borrowing notes from “ Janie’s Got a Gun” and The Cider House Rules or Eve’s Bayou, the milquetoast love song is depicted as a horrific story about alcoholism and incest. On the same album, their epynonomous debut, another song, “I Never Make a Promise,” fell far too far into Boyz II Men territory. I think of it like Ginuwine’s “ Pony” or Blackstreet’s “ No Diggity”-songs that rise above a genre that has too often seemed wilted beneath the dominant shadow cast by Kelly. As remixed by Jermaine Dupri, and featuring him and Da Brat, the So So Def remix of 1996’s “In My Bed” is one the great jams of R&B ’s bling era. To be honest, though, there is really only one other Dru Hill song that I like. I like it much more than I like most Dru Hill songs. I like the big organ chords that drive the melody and the guys’ voices sound gritty and strong. But, wow, bananas!ĭespite that, and despite the lyrics, I like the song. or the end of that wonderful new Erykah Badu video. And I don’t know whether it’s more like the Sistine Chapel or E.T. They have to really stretch, though, because they are at least four or five feet away from each other. Stopping about halfway there, he reaches out to her. He mouths the words, “I love you,” and begins to crawl across the floor, on his fists, to where she’s lying on the couch. Presumably the results of the bludgeoning with the golf club.Ĩ) The woman looks at the man. The man has a split lip and a sore jaw and is missing a tooth. He is a good dancer.ħ) The woman’s make-up is smeared. (He has maybe pushed her down?)Ĥ) Tao takes a bath in a tub surrounded by candles and rose petals, and gets a back massage from a different woman.Ħ) Sisqo does a crazy sort of Matrix-bullet-dodging-sequence version of the moonwalk. They argue and grapple and she falls down. She wakes up and throws a wine glass at him. Jazz summarizes the song’s meaning, though with words that seem to understate the seriousness of the situation: “Need an opinion, unbiased, someone to talk to/An outsider, someone who understands what we’re going through/Lack of communication’s breeding this separation/And I don’t wanna lose you!”ģ) The man creeps back into the house while his woman is sleeping. Having somehow survived the attack, the man runs out of the house.Ģ) Dru Hill dance and sing in the foyer. A video of the incident exists and the woman this man shares his mansion with watches it on his lap top while he’s sleeping on the couch. Here’s what happens:ġ) We learn in the intro, which is set to a different song, that a friend of the group has been at some sort of party where a stripper sat on his lap and fed him ice-cream. Kelly would lift to operatic new heights with the Trapped In the Closet series. State-of-the-art when it comes to the kind of over-the-top, they-can’t-be-serious, deep-schlock cheese that R. (If only to serve as a reminder that the folks who brought the world Sisqo’s monumental solo smash “ The Thong Song” haven’t lost their sense of the ridiculous.) But even better, they’ve made a video for a new single, “Love M.D.”Ī Dru Hill video is always worth repeated viewings. The album is called InDRUpendance Day, a title that would probably be worth a post of its own. Original members Sisqo, Nokio and Jazz are joined by a new member, Tao, who replaces Skola, who replaced original member Woody in 2000. The millions-selling Baltimore R&B quartet Dru Hill are set to return in April with their first new album in eight years.
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