A few, probably coincidental comparisons between Ciara’s “Body Party” and Janet: If you’re going to pick a video to imitate, this is a great choice. The relaxed, but sensual party atmosphere of “Body Party,” filled with individuals famous (Trinidad James, Jazze Pha, Ludacris) and not-famous (everyone else) reminds the dedicated music video viewer immediately of Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes.” Nowhere is that more clear than every aspect of this song and video. Unlike other examples of couples sharing the screen for videos (Jay and Bey in “’03 Bonnie & Clyde,” Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in “Jenny From the Block”), Future and Ciara’s attempt at acting as if they aren’t in real-life love, and simply are strangers who just met at a party, is highly unbelievable - BECAUSE THEY CAN’T HIDE THEIR REAL-LIFE LOVE.Īnd just like that, in my heart, the curse of Bow Wow has been lifted.Ĭiara has stated that Janet Jackson is a major influence in her career. I just really want to hammer down that point. Future does not have a verse on “Body Party,” but did assist his girlfriend, Ciara, in writing the song that is about Ciara’s body being Future’s party.Ĭiara’s talking about Future, the guy in the video and her real-life boyfriend. ![]() Future is also a new-age rapper folk crooner with the soul of Vandross and the vocoder talents of T-Pain. Love, on and off the screen.įuture is Ciara’s boyfriend. She was eye candy for the video, but as we have since learned after some 11 years of their relationship, the romantic chemistry was real. In 2002, Enrique Iglesias released the video for his international sensation, “Escape.” His co-star/countertop makeout pal in the video was Anna Kournikova. Instead of discussing the video frame-by-frame, lets tackle it theme-by-theme. Because, before yesterday, there was no video for Ciara’s “Body Party.” But now we’re in future yesterday (today), which means there is a video for “Body Party.”Īnd just like that, my self-imposed, highly selfish Ciara moratorium has been lifted. But I still wasn’t on the Ciara train like I was in 2004-05.Īnd, even when someone breaks up with Bow Wow, as Ciara did in 2006, you forgive, but you don’t forget. I respect what Ciara did with “Like a Boy” as an outspoken champion of grinding, she deserves medals for “Promise” and “Ride” and the Ginuwine “Differences” sample supporting “Sorry” resulted in a good single. ![]() The rest is, selfishly, because she dated Bow Wow. 127 on Pitchfork’s top 500 songs of the 2000s “Choice Music Make-Out Song” winner at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards), still isn’t treated like the classic it is. Until yesterday.Ī portion of my seven-year emotional break from Ciara stems from the fact that very few of her post- Goodies outings matched the quality of “Oh,” a song that, while certainly celebrated (no. It was 2005, Ludacris had just launched into his guest verse on “Oh,” and that was the cue for Ciara to climb a car. When I was just a boy, something happened on Total Request Live one afternoon that forever changed my life.
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