The lace-up pants and brown/aqua color combination are also very early-’00s.Ĭrystal: Anyway, the REAL reason why we’re covering “U Don’t Have To Call” is because HEELYS.Ĭrystal: Brilliant. Katherine: Obviously we have a ton more outfits. With all the ladies.Ĭrystal: Diddy makes an appearance here for something like five seconds to look on and take a phone call. He dances in the elevator on the way up to the club. His crew (in an assortment of jaunty hats) bounce in unison to the beat in the car. He bops his head driving to pick up his crew. “I’ve never seen that done before.”Ĭrystal: It’s truly miraculous. Ask Diddy: “Usher dances all through the video,” Diddy marveled. The rest of the video is essentially one extended dance break. Katherine: Being a heartbroken celebrity was so much easier back then, and yet not. At least you can avoid her in your dressing room, as opposed to on the side of a bus, or in the magazine aisle like in “U Got It Bad.”Ĭrystal: Is this the early ‘00s equivalent of refusing to delete photos of you and your ex? Also if you’re both famous? Also, you’ve got it bad when your beloved photoshoot is blatantly rolling her eyes at you (1:22) and you still can’t bring yourself to take the clipping down. Katherine: You know it’s a feature because it says FEATURE. Katherine: I don’t know where to put this but this video features one of my favorite music-video tropes ever: the FAKE MAGAZINE (or newspaper, or website, or I guess Twitter now) FEATURE that COMES TO LIFE: But this screencap doesn’t even have the best part! Katherine: The studded jeans are maybe a bit of-their-decade. JT also pulls it off on the cover of Justified. Also, unfairly, it is aided by the classic (IMO) look of a good-looking dude in a white tee and a leather jacket. Katherine: This is by far the best outfit featured on this blog.Ĭrystal: Oh, for sure, but everyone was so baggy from this decade. ![]() Sorry, never going to be over it.Ĭrystal: This is Usher’s going out outfit. Actually, all Usher music videos where he looks like bae from then until eternity should be iconic. As should the scene afterwards where he’s freshly showered and wet…Ĭrystal: He even looks good when fucking up shaving. Katherine: I dunno, the scene with the bathrobe is pretty iconic.Ĭrystal: Is it? It should be. Less iconic than Risky Business and more dated than “7/11”. And by “concerned” I mean “pep-talking through a video phone right outta Future Interface.”Ĭrystal: Usher gets ready and dances around in his underwear. Should we have covered “U Got It Bad” first? Eh, plenty of people write about Godfather 2… Usher writhing around in white boxers is continuity from “U Got It Bad” as evidenced by that first hazy scene. ![]() Hi, Usher!Ĭrystal: Usher deserves a prize for having been bae for over 15 years. Even her quasi-backup features sound classic. Katherine: Kelis has a quasi-featured credit on this for singing backup. Pharrell was always best with Chad Hugo, and their string of singles from this time period won’t kill a party: “Grindin’,” “Milkshake,” that string of JT debut singles, “Hot in Herre,” “I’m a Slave 4 U”… But a paradoxical one.Ĭrystal: Maybe, but these singles sound classic in a good way. ![]() Katherine: I feel like Pharrell’s success im 2012-14 has somehow made old Pharrell sound even moredated. Diddy’s “I Need a Girl (Part One)”.Ĭrystal: Funny that Ludacris hops on the official remix. “U Don’t Have to Call,” which’ll be obvious like 5 seconds in, was produced by Pharrell and Chad Hugo and is sort of a companion track to (then) P. Which meant a total rework of the album most people agreed was much better. ![]() Katherine: Here’s an encapsulation of the times: 8701 was delayed when some of its tracks leaked… ONTO NAPSTER. Katherine: The third single off 8701, after “U Remind Me” and “U Got It Bad” (alas, abandoned naming conventions)… U DON’T HAVE TO CALL!Ĭrystal: There are better and more popular Usher songs that we may get around to later, but “U Don’t Have To Call” and its video are a perfect encapsulation of the times. From YouTube: “i want that leather jacket is it still made and where can i get one?”
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