Get Right

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"Get Right"
Single by Jennifer Lopez
from the album Rebirth
Released	February 14, 2005 (UK) March 15, 2005 (U.S.)
Format	Digital download, digital maxi single, CD single, 12" single, 7" vinyl single
Genre	Pop/R&B/Funk
Length	3:45
Label	Epic
Writer(s)	Rich Harrison, James Brown, Usher Raymond
Producer(s)	Rich Harrison, Cory Rooney
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
Chart positions
#1 (Europe, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, UK, United World Chart) #2 (New Zealand) #3 (Australia, Canada) #12 (U.S.)
Jennifer Lopez singles chronology
"Baby I Love U!" (2004)	"Get Right" (2005)	"Hold You Down" (2005)
Alternate cover
UK 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).

Contents 1 Song information 2 Music video 3 Parody 4 Track listings and formats 4.1 UK editions 4.2 U.S. editions 5 Remixes 5.1 Official 6 Credits 7 Charts 8 See also

[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 1988 song "Soul Power '74", written by James Brown and performed by Maceo & the Macks. In this funk club number, Lopez describes her impatient experiences with a man she meets at a nightclub. He's looking just a little too hard at her, and standing just a bit too close to her, yet he's not saying quite enough for her. Lopez is intrigued by the man, but does not waste time in small talk, causing her to propose, "I'm about to sign you up, we can get right/Before the night is up, we can get riiiiiiiight get riiiiiiight, we can get right..."

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, Arianna — 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] Track listings and formats

[edit] UK editions

• CD 1

1. "Get Right" (Album Version)
2. "Get Right" (Remix featuring Fabolous)

• CD 1 (extra tracks)

1. "Get Right" (Album Version)
2. "Get Right" (Remix featuring Fabolous)
3. "Love Don't Cost a Thing"
4. "If You Had My Love"
5. "Get Right" (Instrumental)

• CD 2

1. "Get Right" (Album Version)
2. "Love Don't Cost a Thing" (RJ Schoolyard Mix featuring Fat Joe)
3. "If You Had My Love" (Darkchild Edit)
4. "Get Right" (Instrumental)
5. "Get Right" (Video)

[edit] U.S. editions

• 12" single

Side 1:

1. "Get Right" (Remix featuring Fabolous)
2. "Get Right" (Pop Mix featuring Fabolous)
3. "Get Right" (Louie Vega) (Radio Mix)

Side 2:

1. "Get Right" (Louie Vega Club Mix)
2. "Get Right" (Louie Vega Roots Dub)
3. "Get Right" (Louie Vega Instrumental Mix)

• 7" vinyl single

Side 1:

1. "Get Right" (Pop Mix featuring Fabolous)

Side 2:

1. "Hold You Down" (featuring Fat Joe)

• Promo single (unreleased)

1. "Get Right" (Full Intention Extended Vocal Mix)
2. "Get Right" (Full Intention Extended Vocal Dub)

[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

[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

Chart (2005) Peak position U.S. Billboard Hot 100 12 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 38 U.S. Billboard Pop 100 12 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 1 1 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales 1 2 U.S. Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay 36 U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs 5 U.S. Billboard Hot Ringtones 2 U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 17 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 18 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks 29 U.S. VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown 6 Australian ARIA Singles Chart 3 Austrian Singles Chart 11 Belgian Singles Chart 3 Canadian Singles Chart 3 Danish Singles Chart 3 Dutch Top 40 2

Chart (2005) Peak position Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 1 French Singles Chart 2 Finnish Singles Chart 4 German Singles Chart 7 Greek Singles Chart 4 Hungarian Singles Chart 3 Irish Singles Chart 1 Italian Singles Chart 1 Mexican Singles Chart 1 New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 2 Norwegian Singles Chart 7 Peruvian Singles Chart 1 Portuguese Singles Chart 1 Spain Los 40 Principales 15 Swedish Singles Chart 11 Swiss Singles Chart 3 UK Singles Chart 1 United World Chart 1

¹ Louie Vega Club Mix.

[edit] See also

• Number-one dance hits of 2005 (USA)
• List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK)
• Number-one singles in Ireland (2005)
• Number-one hits of 2005 (World)

Preceded by "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" by U2	UK number-one single February 20, 2005	Succeeded by "Over and Over" by Nelly featuring Tim McGraw
Preceded by "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day	United World Chart number-one single March 12, 2005 - March 19, 2005	Succeeded by "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day