Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: The Inscrutability of Millennial R&B

I’ve never been a particularly big fan of R&B, and actively disliked the only Fast & Furious movie I ever saw¹The one where they’re dragging a vault around; is that 5? I had people tell me that was one of the best in the franchise, so I think I’m fine leaving it at that., so I have to say I haven’t been familiar with the work of Tyrese Gibson.

But while searching for a different song on Apple Music, I stumbled onto “Get Up On It” from his album 2000 Watts, and I was pleasantly surprised. It’s not going to be an all-time favorite or turn me into a super-fan, but it’s pretty catchy. I like the early-2000s strings + drum machine combo, and how the whole thing feels like what you’d hear over the end credits of the kind of movie that makes you say, “Huh, that wasn’t that bad.”

The problem is that it’s so frustratingly vague. Sure, yes, I’m all on board with the idea of Getting Up On It, but how?

Thankfully, we’d already gotten instructions from The Chemical Brothers a few years earlier, with a track that is one of my all-time favorites: “Get Up On It Like This“. And it’s a little early, but thanks anyway.

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  The one where they’re dragging a vault around; is that 5? I had people tell me that was one of the best in the franchise, so I think I’m fine leaving it at that.