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All our life watching Amerie's car

  • December 5, 2006
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Here is the video for Amerie's new single, 'Take Control'.

As you can see it's a sort of 'heist' plot involving shiny cars. We like shiny cars. The song? Well, it is not as good as 'One Thing' but at the same time not all that bad. It is basically quite good.

The album's got some belters on it, though — 'Some Like It' samples Malcolm McLaren ('World Famous Supreme Team Show' rather than 'Magic's Back', unfor­tu­nately), and 'Crush' is 80s-o-rama. We have to get 'Take Control' out of the way first, of course, and that's not out until bloody March.

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