Get Right

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“Get Right”
Single by Jennifer Lopez featuring Fabolous from the album Rebirth
Released	February 14, 2005 (UK) March 8, 2005 (U.S.)
Format	Digital download, digital maxi single, CD single, 12" single, 7" single
Recorded	2004
Genre	Dance-pop, R&B, funk
Length	3:45
Label	Epic
Writer(s)	Rich Harrison, James Brown
Producer	Rich Harrison, Cory Rooney
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
Jennifer Lopez featuring Fabolous singles chronology
"Baby I Love U!" (2004) "Get Right" (2005) "Hold You Down" (2005)
Alternate cover
British CD 2 cover

"Get Right" is the first single from Jennifer Lopez's fourth studio album Rebirth. Released on February 28, 2005 in the UK and March 15, 2005 in the U.S., the single peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Lopez's tenth top twenty single in the U.S.; it also peaked at number one in the UK, becoming her first number-one in the UK for four years since "Love Don't Cost a Thing" (2001).

[edit] Song information

The song was written by Rich Harrison and produced by Harrison and Cory Rooney. It is most notable for its looping, blaring horn sample usage of a part of the 1974 song "Soul Power '74", written by James Brown and performed by Maceo & the Macks.

The song was originally recorded by Usher as "Ride" but did not make his album Confessions. There was a big yet publicly quiet dispute between Lopez and Usher for "stealing" the song. In the end, Lopez got the song and also used much of his original verses for the bridge "So much we got to say but so little time", etc.

[edit] Music video

The main video, directed by Francis Lawrence, portrays Lopez playing different characters at a nightclub: a DJ (the main character), a Go-Go dancer dancing upon the bar, a bartender, a nerdy, shy girl, a superstar, and other personalities attending the club. The end of the song features Marc Anthony's daughter, Ariana—portrayed as a relative to the DJ character—, singing along with the music as the DJ is at work. It received four nominations at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards: "Best Dance Video", "Best Direction", "Best Choreography", and "Best Editing".

There is also a music video for the official remix of the song featuring rapper Fabolous that takes segments from the main video and extending them against a gray background. The dancing mainly consists of Lopez dancing with a cane in an old Hollywood sideshow-style dance routine. The other segments are Lopez basically dancing un-choreographed to the beat. All dance routines appear on screens throughout the club, as Lopez explains on MTV's Making the Video, "A video within a video".

[edit] Parody

On an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, broadcast May 16, 2005, Ellen introduces Lopez as a guest, starting the segment of with: "The only way to describe my next guest is as my dancing partner, check it out..." A video VT plays of her joining in to the dance choreography of "Get Right". The director shouts "action!" and dancing rather badly to the guide track, on purpose for laughs, Ellen prances around the soundstage trying to keep up with the dancers.

[edit] Anthem Theme Song in Pop Culture

That same year, the song became a national anthem theme song for the NBA helping the league promote the 2005 NBA playoffs and the conclusion of the 2004-05 NBA season.

[edit] Track listings and formats

[edit] Remixes

[edit] Official

• Album version featuring Fabolous
• Album version
• Hip Hop Mix featuring Fabolous
• Hip Hop Mix
• Pop Mix featuring Fabolous
• Full Intention Extended Vocal Mix
• Full Intention Extended Vocal Dub
• Louie Vega Club Mix
• Louie Vega Radio Mix
• Louie Vega Roots Dub
• Louie Vega Instrumental
• Terror Squad Remix featuring Remy Ma
• Reggaeton Remix
• Instrumental
• Acapella
• DJ Envy Remix featuring Usher & Fabolous

[edit] Credits

• Jennifer Lopez – lead vocals
• Chris Avedon – engineer, assistant engineer
• Scotty Beats – engineer
• Rudaina Haddad – background vocals
• Rich Harrison – programming, multi instruments, producer
• Peter Wade Keusch – engineer, mixing
• Cory Rooney – producer, vocal producer
• Bruce Swedien – engineer, mixing

[edit] Charts

¹ Louie Vega Club Mix.