She Got That Right

I’m not a big fan of Miss Big Fanny, but Her Tushness has got me shaking my tush every time I hear her latest song, Get Right. This dance hit has one of the most infectious samples I’ve ever heard, an insistent horn that lodges in one’s mind and refuses to leave. (It’s on the same level as Usher’s Yeah! and Beyonce’s Crazy In Love.) The accompanying music video, alas, has a very trite concept—multiple Jennies in one block. Still, it’s a joy to watch her dance up a storm in high heels. And thanks to that unrelenting bleating, her music video becomes eminently more watchable. Nowadays she insists to media that she doesn’t want to be called “J. Lo” anymore. Looks like she’s trying to shake off her colorful past. Her personal life has always threatened to overshadow her musical career. Maybe with this song, she just might get it right this time.

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My gulay. The saxophone riff for Get Right was sampled from a James Brown song. No wonder it sounds sooo funkieee! Panalo!

And true enough, I’ve proven that I’m not a fan of Miss Ex-Half Of Bennifer. I only like two tracks in her album, and they’re both the Get Right cuts (the second version has the prerequisite “added rap part” featuring rapper Fabolous grafted unto the song’s intro and instrumental break). If it weren’t for the additional DVD (with videos for both Get Right tracks and a boring—as in, really—“making of” feature), I wouldn’t have bought her latest album Rebirth.