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#1 crol

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Posted 22 August 2011 - 10:49 AM

“You know that Ronnettes tune, ‘Be My Baby?’” she asks. “When I was with Salaam last time, he had me sing that chorus, but make it B-boy, be my baby, Then he tried to get me to do a verse! I was like, ‘I thought you were going to get Nas or something?’”

Read more: http://www.thefader..../#ixzz1VkmjNRto


The rest of the article's worth a read too. Interesting that Salaam had Amy's recording there, and used it in Mutya's track later.

Sorry for making so many new threads lately. Can't sleep so reading archive interviews.

#2 PabloD

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Posted 22 August 2011 - 02:36 PM

Love that Mutya track and the original. Would have been lovely to hear Amy covering it or doing a rework of it like Mutya did.

I assume that's where her co-writting credits on this song come from. When you're that big you just need to add some "ahh" and "ohhs" and you get credit as a writter (same case as Beyonce's Resentment) where she just changed "What's up with Jazzy" for "What's up with Bee" from the original demo from Jazmine Sullyvan and ended up as a co-writter.

Still lovely of Amy doing backing vocals for someone not as famous as she. Something else that speaks of her human quality and non stupid diva persona.
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Posted 25 August 2011 - 12:20 AM

Wish I could find the Instrumental to this track.

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#4 HugoRockz

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:16 PM

Tell me something! Does B refering to Blake like in Some Unholy War?

#5 Sir' Taurean

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 07:09 PM

^No.

B Boy is a Break dancer, from what I am aware of. B Boy Baby was a song done by the Ronettes, and Mutya covered it. Nothing to do with Blake.

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#6 PabloD

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 11:11 PM

B Boy refers to a breakdancer, yeah (Mutya's type apparently). This is a re-work of the Ronettes beautiful classic Be My Baby. It's basically the same chorus with the different lyrics (From: "Be my, be my baby" to "B Boy, be my baby"). The verses have different lyrics and phrasing from the original and were all written by Mutya I guess. That's how it's normally done. As I previously said in this thread Amy's input was probably just a favour to Salaam (the producer). This is all just in my opinion, tho!
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