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"'''Doo Wop (That Thing)'''" is a 1998 by [[USA|American]] [[Hip hop]] singer/[[rapper]] [[Lauryn Hill]], included on her debut solo album ''[[The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill]]''. |
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==As a Single== |
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"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is a 1998 by American Hip hop singer/rapper Lauryn Hill, included on her debut solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
As a Single
While not Hill's first solo single (she had previously released "The Sweetest Thing" and a cover of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" from separate soundtrack albums), "Doo Wop" was her first, and some consider only major solo success: it became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in the fall of 1998, and won two Grammy Awards the following February. The successes of "Doo Wop" and the Miseducation album established Hill as a success outside of her group, The Fugees.
As a Message
The song is a warning from Hill to African-American men and women caught in "the struggle". Both the women who "try to be a hardrock when they really are a gem", and the men who are overly "concerned with his rims, and his Timbs, and his women", are admonished by Hill, who warns them not to allow "that thing" to ruin their lives.
Awards and Recognition
"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is included as number 359 on the Songs of the Century list. At the Grammy Awards of 1999, the song won two awards: Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The song's music video won four 1999 MTV Video Music Awards for: Best Female Video, Best R&B Video, Best Art Direction, and Video of the Year.
Music Video
The music video for Doo Wop (That Thing) was filmed using a split screen technique, the video features Hill performing "Doo Wop" at block parties in two different eras: the mid-1960s and the late-1990s. The video, directed by Big TV!, was filmed in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Cover Versions
Devendra Banhart has covered the song during live performances including Bonnaroo 2006, the Pitchfork Music Festival and Tim Festival 2006, in Brazil. Amy Winehouse has also incorporated the song into her own "He Can Only Hold Her" at live concerts in 2006 and 2007.Rihanna covered the song during while on Kanye West's Glow in the Dark Tour in 2008. The American avant-rock band Mr. Bungle often performed an excerpt of the song as an outro for their song Travolta (Quote Unquote) during live shows in the mid- to late nineties, and up to their unofficial demise in 2002.