Same Girl (R. Kelly and Usher song)

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"Same Girl"
Song

"Same Girl" is a song released by R&B singer R. Kelly, from his 2007 album Double Up, with R&B singer, Usher. The song was originally recorded over a year before by upcoming R&B group Nephu. R. Kelly and Usher's version leaked to the Internet on May 2, 2007 and later leaked to radio stations. This song was number 26 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.[1]

Composition

According to the sheet music published by Universal Music Publishing Group, "Same Girl" is an R&B song set in a slow tempo of seventy beats per minute. Written in the key of D minor, it follows the chord progression of Gm–Am–Dm, and both Kelly's and Usher's voices span from C4 to C6.[2]

Music video

The video was shot from June 1–3, 2007 by Little X. On June 19, 2007, BET premiered the official music video for "Same Girl" and aired it throughout the day, every hour on the hour. It later premiered on the network's 106 & Park as a New Joint of the Day.

In the song, R. Kelly and Usher talk about a girl they love who turns out to be the same person. In the video, during the first verse, Kels is seen in Chicago calling Ush at his home in Atlanta, telling him about a woman that he is in love with, sparing no details. Ush, taken aback by the similarities to the girl he is presently dating, inquires further about Kels' new love interest and comes to the conclusion that she is, in fact, the "same girl" as Kels' partner. Kels, in an attempt to resolve the situation working together with Ush, flies out to meet up with Ush in the chorus. As the second verse begins, Ush picks up Kels at the airport in an Aston Martin Vanquish and the two discuss the way they each met this girl in their respective home towns. Eventually, as the two play basketball together, they concoct a scheme to call this girl out on her lies, and show up at dinner with her together, thus shocking and embarrassing her by directly confronting her with her own duplicity. However, at the end of the video, as their plan is carried out, it is in fact Ush and Kels who are shocked, as the tables are turned and it is revealed that they were not, in fact, dating the same girl as they had come to believe, because the girl just happened to have an identical twin with an identical car, license plate, ankle tattoo and beauty mark, as well as sharing a penchant for Waffle House while living over 700 miles away from each other. This is never actually stated in the song, though, so it is debatable whether this is also the case within the song itself. However in the end of the video they stare at each other dumbfounded as they realized the girl they thought they were both dating were actually twins.

Remixed versions

The official remix of the song, The Triple Up Remix, features T-Pain and Usher. R. Kelly uses the Auto-Tune effect on the remix.

  • "Same Girl" (featuring Usher and T-Pain) (Unofficial Mash-Up Remix)
  • "Same Girl Triple Up" (Remix featuring Usher and T-Pain)

Credits

Credits from Amazon.com - R. Kelly & Usher - Same Girl - Single

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 47
Irish Singles Chart 20
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 4
UK Singles Chart 26
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 20
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 4
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 49

References

  1. ^ No byline (December 11, 2007). "The 100 Best Songs of 2007" Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 7, 2009
  2. ^ "R. Kelly – Same Girl Sheet Music". Universal Music Publishing Group. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
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