| "Tell Me 'bout It" | ||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Joss Stone | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album Introducing Joss Stone | ||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "My God" | |||||||||||||||
| Released | 6 February 2007 (digital download) 2 March 2007 (Germany) 5 March 2007 (UK, U.S.) |
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| Format | CD single, digital download | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | Compass Point Studios (Nassau, Bahamas) |
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| Genre | Neo soul, alternative hip hop, funk | |||||||||||||||
| Length | 2:49 | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Relentless, Virgin | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Joss Stone, Raphael Saadiq, Robert Ozuna | |||||||||||||||
| Producer | Raphael Saadiq | |||||||||||||||
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"Tell Me 'bout It" is a song by English soul singer-songwriter Joss Stone from her third studio album, Introducing Joss Stone (2007). Written by Stone, Raphael Saadiq and Robert Ozuna (half of the duo Jake and the Phatman), the Saadiq-produced track was released in March 2007 as the album's lead single. It received its first play on BBC Radio 1's The Jo Whiley Show on 22 January 2007.
The single debuted at number twenty-eight on the UK Singles Chart on 11 March 2007, but it fell to number forty the week after, staying on the chart for three weeks only. Having previously topped the U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, "Tell Me 'bout It" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number eighty-three in late March, becoming Stone's first solo single to enter the U.S. chart.
The song was used in the second episode of the premiere season of The CW's series Gossip Girl, entitled "The Wild Brunch", which originally aired on 25 September 2007. It was also used in the soundtrack to the 2007 EA Sports video game NBA Live 08.
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The music video for "Tell Me 'bout It" was directed by Bryan Barber and filmed on location at 5 Pointz, an industrial building used as a graffiti space located in Queens, New York City. In December 2006, the place's owner, graffiti artist Jonathan "Meres" Cohen, received a phone call from a representative for Stone, asking him to use 5 Pointz as the backdrop for the single's video. He was initially unaware of who Stone was, but he eventually gave permission to her crew after speaking to her. Cohen would later be in charge of Stone's body painting for the cover art and the photo shoot of Introducing Joss Stone.[1]
Accompanying its setting, the video is noted for its hip hop-related elements such as graffiti and breakdancers. It features cameo appearances by Saadiq, who appears at the beginning playing the bass, and Cohen, who is shown at the end doing a mural of Stone's face (reminiscent of her face on the cover of 2004's Mind Body & Soul).
A remix by French electronica producer DJ Mehdi was made and was supposed to appear on the single, but was scrapped at the very last minute and replaced by "My God" on the CD single.
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| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| Austrian Singles Chart[2] | 60 |
| Belgian Tip Chart (Flanders)[3] | 2 |
| Belgian Tip Chart (Wallonia)[3] | 17 |
| Dutch Top 40[2] | 8 |
| Dutch Mega Top 50[4] | 1 |
| European Hot 100 Singles[5] | 46 |
| German Singles Chart[2] | 64 |
| Greek Singles Chart | 29 |
| Hungarian Singles Chart[6] | 10 |
| Italian Singles Chart[3] | 12 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[2] | 33 |
| UK Singles Chart[2] | 28 |
| UK R&B Singles Chart | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] | 83 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100[7] | 73 |
| Preceded by "Maak me gek" by Gerard Joling |
Dutch Mega Top 50 number-one single 31 March 2007 |
Succeeded by "Op weg naar geluk" by Jan Smit |
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