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| Single by Blackstreet and Mýa featuring Blinky Blink and Mase | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album The Rugrats Movie and Finally | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | February 2, 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD Single | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | September 1998[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | R&B/Urban/Pop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Interscope | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Mason Betha Michael Foster Madeline Nelson Teddy Riley Tamara Savage |
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| Producer | Teddy Riley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Certification | Platinum (RIANZ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Take Me There" is a Pop/R&B song by American quartet Blackstreet and Mýa and features Bad Boy rappers Ma$e and Blinky Blink. The track was produced by Teddy Riley for the soundtrack for the motion picture film The Rugrats Movie and featured on Blackstreet's fourth studio album Finally. Take Me There was written by Mason Betha, Michael Foster, Madeline Nelson, Teddy Riley, and Tamara Savage. The film also serves as the theme song for The Rugrats Movie.
"Take Me There" was released February 2, 1999 in the United States as the lead single from The Rugrats Movie soundtrack. The single was a commercial success; it peaked at number fourteen on Billboard's Hot 100 and number ten on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart. Take Me There was a commercial success internationally; it reached the top spot in New Zealand and certified platinum by Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. The song's popularity also played a vital role in the film's success.
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"Take Me There" is a contemporary R&B/ rap song with a soft melody and the full song length is five minutes and two seconds. It starts as a soft Rugrats melody and as it gets further into the song it remixes into a rap and comes back to soft again. It contains interpolations of the original Rugrats TV theme which was written by Mark Mothersbaugh, not credited as a songwriter though. It was meant to be for The Rugrats Movie soundtrack until it grew to be as popular as it is in 1999.
The music video[2] premiered in October 1998. The video starts with Angelica Pickles turning on the television to a clip of the Rugrats pulling the Reptar Wagon up a hill then to the music video. The clip used appears to be the deleted scene "The Rugrats March". It takes place in a realistic, live action version of the Pickles' house, with Mýa and Blackstreet dancing through the house. Mýa is seen in Tommy Pickles' bedroom and the members Blackstreet are seen in the kitchen. During the rap from Mase and Blinky Blink, they are driving the Reptar Wagon. During this part, they used the background from a scene in the film. It also contains clips from the movie. As the video ends Angelica turns the television off. The video premiered as a part of Blackstreet and Mýa's hosting of SNICK.[3] The video was directed by Luke Nola and Steve Saussey.
The Rugrats Movie soundtrack has earned a Platinum Record, awarded when an album has sold over 1 million copies in the US. The main selling element of the soundtrack has not been the Rugrats, but the major label artists that have appeared on the soundtrack, especially the "Jackson 5" version of Take Me There is climbing the charts.[4] While the original was still on radio airplay the remix was making both versions a hit on every radio station and play lists. On December 19, 1998, the song earned a peak of 27 in only three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 "Greatest Gainer/ Airplay". That same day it made its way onto the Top 40 Tracks in four weeks. In the week of December 7, 1998, "Take Me There" had been peaked #13 on the Hits of the World board in the United Kingdom. The song landed on #19 of the Video Monitor, the most-played clips as monitored by the Broadcast Data Systems, by being played many times on BET, it did very well on the MTV playlists peaking at #21 in the same week. Well liked in The Clip List, it made a debut on the Box Tops, and was played about 15 hours weekly on the California Music Channel (CMC).
Seeing the popularity of "Take Me There",Sound Tracks had this to say, "Airplay of 'Take Me There' by Blackstreet & Mýa featuring Mase and Blinky Blink (Interscope) continues to grow on the Hot 100 and tHot 100 Airplay charts. 'Take Me There' moves 27-19 on Hot 100 Airplay and 35-27 on the Hot 100 to earn the Greatest Gainer/ Airplay title for its 17% increase in audience. A remix by Big Yam using the melody of the Jackson 5's 'I Want You Back' and a rapless edit are helping the track make inroads at radio. No doubt, the song's inclusion on the Burger King commercials promoting the Rugrats toys being offered by the fast-food giant is helping the song gain exposure. [...] Just look at the jump 'Take Me There' took after 'The Rugrats Movie' opened. 'Take Me There' was shipped to radio the first week in October but didn't really affect the charts until the film took off." It also helped the soundtrack stay at #20 on the Billboard 200 chart for five weeks.[5]
| Chart (1998) [6][7] | Peak position |
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| Canadian Singles Chart | 35 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 22 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles | 47 |
| German Singles Chart | 58 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 1 |
| Tokio Hot 100 | 15 |
| UK Singles Chart | 7 |
| UK R&B Chart | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 14 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles | 10 |
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1999 | Billboard Hot 100[8] | 91 |
| Country (Provider) | Certification |
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| New Zealand (RIANZ) | Platinum |
| United States (RIAA) | Platinum |
Demo version issued only to radio stations and featuring "The Rugrats Soundtrack" logo on the cover; this version was issued around the same time as the movie soundtrack's release in October 1998; same contents as above, but does not feature the "Want U Back" mix. Demo version was available in CD and 12-inch vinyl record.
"Now That's What I Call Music 2" (US version) -- co-released by Universal, EMI & Virgin, it's a greatest hits CD (based on a similar series of the same title sold in the UK since the mid-1980s); "Take Me There" is included on that CD.[1]
This demo CD contains 4 favorites from The Rugrats Movie soundtrack.
1. "Take Me There" - Blackstreet and Mya featuring Mase and Blinky Blink
2. "On Your Marks Get Set, Ready, Go!" - Busta Rhymes
3. "Take The Train" - Rakim and Danny Saber
4. "Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Yum!" - E.G. Daily, Christine Cavanaugh & Kath Soucie
The remix appears on Finally (omitting Mase & Blinky Blink from the Finally version, possibly because their verses primarily revolve around the Rugrats characters) & "The Rugrats Movie Soundtrack", which sampled the Jackson 5's #1 hit, "I Want You Back", but it is not used in the film. It is available on the Consumer CD version which was issued in the UK around the same time as the movie's release there in March 1999, and is available as an import item, and may be hard to find at United States record stores.[9]
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