Video: Amerie, “Heard Em All”
The obvious touchstone here is Rihanna, what with the badgirl saunter and Grace Jones-ish hoodie. But as much as we love the Rih, sometimes she doesn’t come with the oomph we’d expect from someone trying to give us juvenile delinquent-face: instead of Billy Idol snarls and erase-you dismissals, we get a blank slate. Enter Amerie, who has this tough lady thing down without overdoing it. Maybe it’s the inherent intelligence she conveys, expressive eyes, or who knows, it could just be the chainlink fence, like she’s hanging out by the dumpster behind the school on the “smoking hill,” or whatever was your school’s equivalent to the place the cool arty kids liked to talk smack.
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- posted on Sep 24, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO
- tags Amerie, Pop, r&b
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September 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
DOPE video and even hotter song! And please don’t ever compare Amerie to that puppet Rihanna. It’s an insult to Amerie. Amerie is a true artist who has creative control over her career and comes up with her own ideas and writes her own lyrics; Not abc, 123 lyrics, but lyrics that actually have substance.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
all i gotta say is i love the video and the song! cant wait 4 her new album “In love & war” out nov 3, 2009!
September 24th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Wonderful song and hawt video!!! When I first heard this track, the beat, Amerie’s flow over the beat, and chorus – I couldn’t help but dance. Hell, I guarantee that most people accidentally created their own choreography to this video from the song alone. The one thing I’ve always valued about Amerie, beyond her beauty and gritty-Mary-J-Blige-ish vocals, is her originality. This girl thinks through her career (putitng her Georgetown University degree to good use), and only releases what she wants, and not what the label wants – hence her leaving Columbia Records (aka Beyonce, Inc.) With the video, and the album artwork, Amerie went for something more abstract, which hasn’t been done yet, and I think that it will work in her favor. But another strong suit of Amerie’s, is her ability to bring songs to life on stage, and once she wrecks the stage with this song, just like “One Thing”, everyone will begin to notice how hawt this song is!
September 24th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I just loved it! It was on point fashion forward and Mad Maxish. This girl has mad talent and the album sampler on Def Jams website is letting you all know what’s in store for everyone with this album here. I love the cut with her and Trey Songz and the Higher cut she will get her props with this album In Love & War.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:13 am
Man, Beyonce still runs this block. Rihanna might be like a Paulie Walnuts to B’s Tony Soprano, but Amerie would probably just be serving sandwiches or wiping up the bar at Bada Bing. This kinda hard hitting hip-pop would need a strong game changer to divert from Beyonce and Amerie doesn’t even come close.