" I Want To Be Your Person " is a song by American funk-songwriter Roger Troutman from his third studio album Unlimited! . The album was released as the lead single from the album in 1987 by Reprise Records. The song was co-written by Roger's brother Larry Troutman, and was produced by Roger, who considered the song a statement of romantic commitment. "I Want To Be Your People" featured Roger singing in his natural tenor and his distinctive speech box.
This song topped Billboard Hot R & amp; B Singles chart and peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100. Internationally, the song reached number nine in the Netherlands, number 15 in Germany, number 18 in New Zealand, and number 27 in Canada. It has been featured in movies like the 2000s Love & amp; Basketball and has been sampled by many R & amp artists B and hip hop. The 2002 single "Down 4 U" by Irv Gotti featured Ja Rule, Ashanti, Vita, and Charli Baltimore containing the interpolation of the song. "I Want To Be Your Child" covered by Charlie Wilson and Fantasia in 2010.
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Composition and production
Roger Troutman develops "I Want To Be Your Man" around the theme of romantic commitment. "People have trouble doing and women want us to commit," he explains to authors Adam White and Fred Bronson. "Women want us to admit that we do not want to commit." Troutman took the idea and started working on a song similar to "Computer Love," a 1986 hit for his band, Zapp. "I played in Dallas and [Larry's brother Troutman] flew out, we sat down in the hotel room one day and wrote songs, I talked to him about what I was trying to say and one thing led to the other.We went back and recorded vocals."
"I Want To Be Your People" is a ballad featuring Roger's vocals that are filtered through the vocoder. According to Roger, he never mixed his "humane" sound with the previous talk box, and vocal recording was boring because he could only play one note at a time in the vocoder. To coat the six-part harmony, he uttered the lyrics while playing the melody line and replayed the tape and repeated the process for the harmonization part while playing along with the previously recorded. After he finishes the layering track, if he does not like the result, he should throw it all out and start over. Larry Troutman recommends Nicole Cottom, a friend of his daughter, to help sing the background vocals. Roger remembers he was in the studio one day while he was recording his vocal: "There's a place in the song where there's a hole and I ask him to do something. That's very good, no need to get it out."
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Launch and performance graphs
Roger does not like "I Want To Be Your Man" when you're done and thinks it works as an album filler, best. However, the executives at the label, Warner Brothers, really liked the song. Label president Lenny Waronker and chairman Mo Ostin want to relaunch the Warner dye label, Reprise Records, which has been inactive for several years, and they told Roger that "I Want To Be Your Person" would be a "perfect opening act" to bring the label back. At first, Roger hesitated because of his familiarity with Warner Bros. personnel, but he agreed to move once he knew he would be working with the R & B is the same.
"I Want To Be Your Person" was added to the urban contemporary urban playlist in September 1987; a commercial single was released the following month. Initially, the song got a lot of games on radio stations in California, especially Sacramento and San Francisco Bay Area, and in the Southern states. It rises to number one on the Billboard Hot R & amp; B/Hip-Hop Songs for the week ending December 19, 1987. "I Want To Be Your People" across to pop radio and peaked at number three on the Hot 100 singles chart on February 13, 1988. With the major commercial success of the song, Roger said, "I feel I have reached a milestone - but the record still has talents and materials that will allow black radio to bring it to number one and make it the first hit." "I Want To Be Your People" reached the top 10 in the Netherlands and Belgium, and Top 40 in Germany, New Zealand and Canada. It peaked at number 61 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1987.
Critical reception
The "I Want to Be Your Man" review in the Sept. 26, 1987 issue of Billboard is called the "ballad sultry" single and notes the similarity of Rogers' "trademark" vocal style to those used in Zapp Records. In a 1987 review from Roger Unlimited! album, Connie Johnson of Los Angeles Times said of the song: "It's hard to resist" when Troutman sings through the ballot box "with sincerity, shy sincerity". Music critic Bruce Pollock enrolled this song in his 2005 Rock Song Index: 7500 Most Important Song for the Rock and Roll Era .
Usage in media
"I Want To Be Your Person" is included in the official soundtrack album of the movies Love & amp; Basketball (2000), Pootie Tang (2001), and Soul Kitchen (2009). The song is used in episodes of two season episodes of Everybody Hates Chris's television show.
Example and cover version
"I Want to Be Your Man" has been sampled or interpolated by the following artists: Lil 'Troy on the single "Where's the Love" from his album Sittin' Fat Down South (1999), Irv Gotti shows Ja Rule, Ashanti, Vita, and Charli Baltimore on the single "Down 4 U" from The Inc compilation. Records Irv Gotti Presents: The Inc. (2002), Lil Rob on "I Want to Be Your Man" from the compilation album Best Of (2002), TI on "Let Me Tell You Something" from his album Trap Muzik (2003), Jadakiss on "Hot" from his album Kiss of Death (2004), Cam'ron on "Hey Lady" from her album Purple Haze (2004 ), and Ironically on "I Want To Be Your Man" from his album No Point in Wasting Tears (2008). Roger, singing different lyrics, featured on Tech N9ne "Twisted" from the last album Anghellic (2001).
Chico DeBarge and Shae Fiol covered "I Want to Be Your Man" on Still Incredible Bounce, a Roger Troutman tribute album released in 2002. Charlie Wilson and Fantasia cover songs on Wilson's album Just Charlie (2010). Mark Morrison, with K.O. McCoy and Young Buck, recording a cover version entitled "Wanna Be Your Man 2.0" in Morrison's I Am What I Am EP (2014).
Track list and format
- 7 "single
- "I Want To Be Your People" - 3:58
- "I Want To Be Your People" - 3:47
- 12 "single
- "I Want To Be Your People" (renewal) - 5:51
- "I Want To Be Your People" (version 7 ") - 3:58
- "I Want To Be Your People" (remix) - 3:40
- "Bedistgutarist-A-Rown" - 3:15
Diagram
References
External links
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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