My Thoughts On The Song/Chart: An acclaimed hit single from the debut album (and only studio album) by American rapper and singer Lauryn Hill.
"The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" Since its release, the album has been ranked in numerous best-album lists, with a number of critics regarding it as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Now i personally don't have much attachment to this artist or song aside from maybe hearing it a bit on the radio when i was much younger. I've listened to the album and it's great, but RnB /Hip Hop has never really been my thing outside of casual listening. I can appreciate a good song however when i hear one, i'm just surprised it took this long for a custom of one of her songs to be finally be made available.
This song lacks the Guitar role and tbh i probably should have gone with Bass instead of Keys but both are pretty repetitive to be fair, so it's not like i was missing out on much, this is by far more of a vocals song if anything.
Song Facts:
"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is a song by American rapper and singer Lauryn Hill from her debut solo studio album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998). It was written and produced by Hill. The song was released as her solo debut and lead single from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill on August 10, 1998, by Ruffhouse Records and Columbia Records.
No commercial release was originally intended for the single in the US, but limited-quantity physical formats were issued two months later, on October 27.
"Doo Wop (That Thing)" became Hill's first and only US Billboard Hot 100 number one hit. It marked the first US number one written, produced and recorded by one sole woman since Debbie Gibson's "Lost in Your Eyes" (1989).
It debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, making it the first hip hop song by a soloist to debut at number one, and the first debut single to premiere atop the chart. It also marked the first song by a female rapper to peak at number one on the Hot 100, and remained the only solo song by a female rapper to debut at number one for nearly a quarter of century afterwards.
The song reached number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, and surpassed 50 million audience listeners on radio, which was a record at the time for a hip hop song.
Critically acclaimed, "Doo Wop (That Thing)" was named the best single of the year by Rolling Stone. It went on to win Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards (1999). According to Apple Music, it is one of the most streamed songs of the 1990s.
The song was included in the list of "Songs of the Century", by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts; and was named one of the 300 most important songs of the 20th century by NPR.
"Doo Wop (That Thing)" was ranked number 49 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2021). In 2023, Billboard named it one of the "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time".
The accompanying music video for "Doo Wop (That Thing)" won Hill four awards at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, including the top prize Video of the Year (a first for a rapper). VH1 and Slant have both ranked it as one of the 100 greatest music videos.
The hip hop and R&B song is a warning from Lauryn Hill to African-American men and women caught in "the struggle" In terms of production value, Hill borrows heavily from elements of soul music and doo-wop, lending credence to the song's title
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28 июн 2024
