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Amerie's Because I Love It, which was collecting dust on the shelves at Sony BMG for a really, really long time despite being a pretty good slice of R & B-tinged pop with two fine singles (one of them sampled Tom Ze, people!), is finally getting a Stateside release. And that release date is this Tuesday! No, really! [Circuit City]

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gonna work

Amerie Signs To Def Jam, Will Maybe Get To Release An Album

Rebounding from rumors of being dropped by Columbia after the blog love for her last album, Because I Love It, failed to inspire the label to release it Stateside, Amerie has signed to Def Jam and is already hard at work on her first album for the label, Ironically, I wouldn't be surprised if Sony finally releases Because I Love It (at least on iTunes) if Def Jam succeeds in making Amerie an across-the-board. After all, it's bound to be referenced in every article. More »

4:00 PM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Anthony Miccio
257 views, 5 comments

Latest by cosmiclove: @HONEYBFLY: Speak on it. more »

The latest rumor: Amerie is on the verge of signing with Island Def Jam, and her long-delayed-in-the-States album Because I Love It will finally be released by the label. Not to rain on anyone's parade, but if I were her, I'd maybe wait until the dust clears from the impending Mariah Carey/Janet Jackson sales showdown before I signed anything binding, if only because this album's had enough problems and it certainly doesn't need two huge (well, OK, one huge and one maybe-still-huge) divas overshadowing its U.S. release from the get-go. [Rap-Up]

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videodrone

The Amerie Album: It Lives (Maybe) (Sorta) (Are We Being Too Optimistic?)


Either way, TNT and whoever's responsible for promoting Amerie's Because I Love It in the U.S. are making me wonder if the album—or at least a song or two from it—might get at least a weak, half-hearted push in the States. And it's only been 14-and-change months after the singer dropped her first mixtape associated with it! Above, an ad for the cable channel's coverage of the NBA All-Star Game that uses the motivational anthem "Gotta Work" as its backing music—whether or not this is a sign of an actual promotional push for Amerie, or just an ad director with really good taste, or just a blatant attempt to get music-blog coverage for basketball's crowning event is unclear, but hearing this song is never a bad thing. [YouTube]

9:45 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by solanine: I can't understand how anyone could possibly hear a song this exuberant and catchy and not love it. more »

year-end analysis

The Year In Dropped Artists: Hold On To Your Amerie Imports

As a sort of companion piece to the news that Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard had been dropped from J, Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider blog ran a list of acts that had been dropped by/defected from major labels in 2007 last week. Frankly, I'm surprised that it isn't about a mile longer, even though it does run the gamut from on-to-better-things artists (the White Stripes, Radiohead) to bands that seem to have hard luck follow them wherever they go (Mooney Suzuki, Blood Brothers). Full list after the jump.

THE GOOD: This is a pretty depressing list overall, but perhaps Liz Phair getting dropped by her label will make her think twice before recording her next ode to getting down with the Kotaku set, "Mii And You (Pushin' My Trigger Button)."
THE BAD: After all that will-it-or-won't-it-come-out? drama, it looks like Amerie has been dropped from Sony, thus leaving the status of Because I Love It's US release date more unknown than ever. Here's hoping she'll make a second mix tape.
THE WHAAA? It's not about the list per se, but the comment section of the EW post has turned into a kinda crazy-ass pissing match between JC Chasez fans and Bo Bice diehards. I mean I loved "Until Yesterday" probably more than anyone else, but really?

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10:35 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By mjohnston
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Latest by Lokimotive: The most confusing thing about this list is that it Goldie was just dropped from a Major Label. I would have thought that that would have happened right after turning in the masters for SaturnzReturn. more »

Tonight, Late Show With David Letterman and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno return to the air, and it would appear that the writer-less Leno drew the short straw as far as musical guests go. While Letterman will have both writers and Lupe Fiasco in tow, Leno's comeback show will feature... Chingy. Although who knows, maybe this will work out: His new single (yes! he has one!) does feature Amerie, so perhaps she can convince Jay to let her pop off a performance of "Gotta Work" in lieu of one of those "Gee aren't people walking around Los Angeles dumb, part 8,453" sketches, because those are gonna get real played out real fast. [HT: Defamer]

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No. 22: Amerie Pulls Us Out Of Our Funk And Into Hers And while the track at No. 22 may not motivate you to adopt an eternally positive outlook, it will get your hands waving and your butt shaking in time.

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we're preparing our 'lost classic' post already

Your Idolator Amerie Update: Every Hour On The Hour

It's not a secret (or at least, not a well-kept one) that Amerie's stateside release date issues are a sensitive subject around the Idolator offices, but in order to show the fine people at Sony Urban/Columbia Records that there are still some people on this side of the pond who are eagerly awaiting the release of Because I Love It, we offer an Amerie news rundown after the cut: More »

5:27 PM on Mon Jul 30 2007
By dangibs
659 views, 2 comments

announcements

A Note From The New Editor: Waking Up At The Crack Of Dawn Because I Love It

Hello, everyone. Maura here. It's my first day in the editor's seat, and what better way to introduce my tenure than with the video for Amerie's summer-single-in-waiting "Gotta Work"—even if I have serious misgivings about all the Pussycat Dolls biting, a.k.a. the obvious attempt to get her record noticed on these shores? (Here's hoping there's an alternate "headbanging in front of bucket-drum-players" version of the clip floating around somewhere.) More »

8:38 AM on Mon Jul 2 2007
By mjohnston
466 views, 11 comments

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A Please Release Me Special: The Amerie Album Is Still M.I.A. In The U.S.A.

Last night, we checked up on the release date of Amerie's Because I Love It, the R & B singer's third album. Despite a) her attempts to pump up its pre-release cred with a mixtape and b) the fact that it's one of the better R & B albums we've heard this year, its path toward store shelves in the U.S. has been fraught with delays. Sometime over the past few weeks, another one was introduced; the album, which was most recently scheduled for a July US release (it's already out in the UK and Japan), is now coming out in the States on Aug. 21. Sure, it's not Chinese Democracy, but this album's been plagued with delays since we first heard "Take Control," the album's lead single, back in October 2006. After the jump, a timeline of our prolonged wait for Because I Love It's Stateside arrival: More »

2:00 PM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By mjohnston
1,329 views, 10 comments

Latest by Aleb: This is a freefiona.com situation, when they release the album it will be probably do decently, at least I hope... @dennisobell: I agree with your theory, more or less, but why not leak "Crush" then? Or "Hate2LoveU"? Or the other tracks more »

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Leak Of The Day: Amerie Gives The World Some Love

Amerie's long-anticipated Because I Love It leaked over the weekend, just a few days before its release in everywhere but the U.S. (As one of our commenters pointed out, the Stateside release date at this point is sometime in mid-July—apparently, major labels haven't yet received the "staggered release dates like these just encourage people to head for the BitTorrent hills" memo.) Anyway, the album has a definite '80s-pop-radio vibe, and it's full of gems off her mixtape as well as a few new tracks, including the stomping "Make Me Believe": More »

11:00 AM on Mon May 7 2007
By mjohnston
1,450 views, 2 comments

Latest by Aleb: I can really see this album succeed in the US... In my mind only, because considering the promotion was non-existent (her official site was last updated in 2006, 'nuff said) and there's not a trace of a second single while more »

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Leak Of The Day, Part Two: Amerie Sure Knows How To Work It

We were delighted to find the latest track from Amerie, whose mix tape from last year still gets a lot of airplay around the flophouse. The brassed-out "Gotta Work" is apparently going to be on Because I Love It, Amerie's forthcoming album that has a screwy release-date schedule. Check it: "April 28th (Australia), April 30th (UK) and May 16th (Japan) and in USA most likely for the summer"? (Emphasis ours.) Unless she releases another mixtape soon, we can already feel the "Please Release Me" coming on. More »

5:11 PM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By mjohnston
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An Inthusiastic Idolator Indorsement: Why We (Still) Love "Because I Love It"

Last year, we were suckers for "1 Thing," the three-minutes-of-joy single from R & B singer Amerie; in October, a pal tipped us off to a leaked copy of Because I Love It, her first mixtape, and we went bananas for it almost instantly. From top to bottom, the mix—which is still streaming at LoveAmerie.com—is probably the most fun record we've heard all year; Amerie bends summertime stompers like "Money In The Bank" and "Money Maker" into her own mold, simultaneously taking charge and poking fun at the songs' excesses with some tongue-twisty wordplay. Plus, her reworking of the Kanye West/Pharrell track "Number One," the shimmering "Reminisce Witcha," is one of the most effervescent bits of pop to hit our ears since, well, "1 Thing." More »

4:21 PM on Thu Dec 28 2006
By mjohnston
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clips

Videodrone: Amerie Puts On Her Super-Spy Uniform

Amerie is having a pretty good run lately: First, she reworks Ludacris and Lil' Scrappy on a scorching-hot mixtape, then she puts out a video where she's a double-agent charged with "eliminating" a corrupt senator. Alas, we don't get to see Amerie do the deadly deed, but we do totally understand the clip's parallel between being chased by the paparazzi while you're trying to walk down the street and being chased by the paparazzi while you're trying to carry out a hit. More »

11:37 AM on Mon Dec 4 2006
By mjohnston
113 views, 1 comment

Latest by The Mozfather: Wow! That was an absurd plot. So, she's going to "eliminate" a man who has already been found guilty of "conspiracy"? And her name is "Jerrica"? more »

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Leak Of The Week Day: Amerie Shakes Her Mixtape Maker

Last week, we posted "That's What You Are," another new song from the spunky singer Amerie, but alas, its time on Idolator's servers was short-lived thanks to a pointed e-mail from Antipiracy@riaa.com. Imagine our surprise, then, when we found an MP3 of it on a mixtape hosted by loveamerie.com—and then share in the delight we felt when we realized that the mix was packed with a slew of new tracks from the "1 Thing" chanteuse, including her take on Ludacris' "Moneymaker." More »

4:56 PM on Wed Oct 25 2006
By mjohnston
553 views, 1 comment

Latest by ens3000: People need to cop this mixtape ASAP. Besides being stunningly beautiful, this chick is changing the R&B game. She's cut a mixtape that has made her the 50 cent of the R&B mixtape hustle, with some amazing and clever remakes more »

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Leak Of The Week Day: More Amerie

AMERIE.jpgBeauty N The Beat has another leak from Amerie's upcoming album—this time, a slow-burn called "That's What You Are." Last week's "Take Control" seemed to go over well with you guys; we await your verdicts on the new track below. More »

1:27 PM on Thu Oct 19 2006
By Brian Raftery
731 views, 2 comments

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Leak Of The Week Day: Amerie's "Control" Issues

Discobelle has the new Amerie track, "Take Control," produced by Cee-Lo. Since Amerie's "1 Thing" will go down as one of the greatest singles of the '00s—if not of all time—we were a little disappointed that "Control" finds her veering into Beyonce territory. It's not a bad track, mind you (the looping guitar squiggle is fantastic), but after listening to "1 Thing" over and over again for the past year and a half, we were expecting something revelatory. Judge for yourself: More »

11:42 AM on Fri Oct 13 2006
By Brian Raftery
656 views, 8 comments

Latest by Faster: Damn! B better watch her back, that shite is The Heat! more »

mash-up mania

Mash-Up Mania: T.I. Meets H&O

This post comes with two caveats: 1) That the Hall & Oates/T.I./Amerie combo you're about to see completely falls apart by the end, and 2) the "Hall & Oates is actually cool" retro-revival notion is pretty damn dated at this point. That said, the first minute and forty-one seconds of the clip are awesome.

5:45 PM on Wed Oct 4 2006
By Brian Raftery
166 views, 4 comments