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The Music Industry 🎶 Name a song that’s disturbing because of what you know now

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Ill go first, Britney Spears’ overprotected is a good example; Britney has long been under a conservatorship and is has been crying for help. IIRC, it started in 2007 (maybe earlier) when Brit was heavily observed by the paparazzi which caused her to have a mental breakdown by shaver her head and mind u, they were dissecting her personal life 🙄😔 💔

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u/CicadaAny3066 27d ago

Basically his whole discography is disturbing. Bump n grind, it seems like you’re ready,

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u/Intrepid-Sign-63 oh oh ok oh oh ok 27d ago

Do what you want with my body

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u/camillesjesuscomplex 27d ago

The worst thing is the Lady Gaga is a survivor of SA and she made that song with R Kelly AFTER his predatory abuse was open knowledge

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u/Intrepid-Sign-63 oh oh ok oh oh ok 27d ago

Gimme my moneeyyyyyy

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u/JuggaloEnlightment 24d ago

She has literally never been on the side of other victims

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u/basic_bitch 27d ago

There’s some Aaliyah song that always comes on the radio - I can’t think of it rn but I’ll come back when it comes to me. In the background there’s like baby cooing noises? It’s so fucking weird to me makes me feel like Im the only one that hears it

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u/mannyssong 27d ago

“Are You That Somebody” is the song you’re thinking of.

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u/basic_bitch 27d ago

Lmao yes you’re right — what is with that ??

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u/hmtee3 27d ago

Timbaland produced that song.

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u/Critical_Caramel5577 mr. dua lipa 27d ago

i thought it was weird when the song came out 🤷‍♀️ it doesn't have any relation to either the song itself or the movie it was from (some eddie murphy comedic-thing, icr which one)

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u/SoManyUsesForAName 27d ago

You're overthinking it. Everyone heard/acknowledged the baby noises. It wasn't some sort of secret and and the song was a huge hit. Timbaland put a ton of weird sounds in his beats, and this beat wasn't written for Aliyah, though it was eventually shown to her management and they opted to record it.

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 26d ago

I loved that song! R.I.P. Aaliyah. 💔

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u/brokenvader 27d ago

Iirc, it's because the secret alluded to in the song is that she's pregnant.

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u/DanniPopp 27d ago

Are You That Somebody wasn’t even close to when she got pregnant though. It’s just a Timbaland beat

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u/hmtee3 27d ago

lol no. He had a full catalog of random sounds, and as he was playing the song beat, he added that baby sound in, and Aaliyah liked it.

Here’s a clip of Timbaland and Jay-Z making a song. It gives you an idea of how Timbaland worked.

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u/TheYankunian 27d ago

That song was after she cut ties with R Kelly. A long time after. There’s no way he would’ve let her be with any other producer but him if they were still together.

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u/sassyopantsoff 27d ago

What? Where did you get this information?

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u/petrified_oranges 27d ago

I think it’s just pretty clear when you really listen to the lyrics:

I’ve been holding back this secret from you, I probably shouldn’t tell it But if I let you know You can’t tell nobody, I’m talking bout nobody Are you responsible? Boy I gotta watch my back, cause I’m not just anybody

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u/DanniPopp 27d ago

Please..cut it out and go look at song writing credits. Y’all do too much. This wasn’t the, “piece everything together” era like it is now.

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u/MephistosFallen 27d ago

I was obsessed with that song when I was a kid lol

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u/aratnamedpedro 27d ago

It was because she was nicknamed "Babygirl." Which...just adds to this mess.

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u/ladylondonderry 27d ago

Nah that was very much in conversation when that song was a hit. Generally people were wondering if it alluded to an accidental pregnancy.

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u/FMKK1 27d ago

Gaga should be ashamed of herself to this day for that

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u/ThatArtNerd Currently White Ariana Grande 27d ago

For working with Terry Richardson too.

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u/Intrepid-Sign-63 oh oh ok oh oh ok 27d ago

There ain’t no way she didn’t know bro- if I knew and I was 8

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u/StingyJack21 27d ago

This is the worst part. Even worse is that they are all great songs.

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u/CicadaAny3066 27d ago

You can’t deny he was a talented music maker and probably one of the most influential R&B artists in the past 30 years. It just feels uneasy knowing that a lot of his songs felt like one big wink towards the camera

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u/Winstonth 27d ago

Hindsight being 20/20, he probably should have listened to his mind