Get Right

Infobox Single
Name = Get Right


Artist = Jennifer Lopez
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 at
Night Flight Recording Studios
(Fort Washington, Maryland)
The Poolhouse West
(Encino, Los Angeles, California)
The Poolhouse
(Long Island, New York)
Genre = Dance-pop, R&B, funk
Length = 3:45
Label = Epic
Writer = Rich Harrison, James Brown
Producer = Rich Harrison, Cory Rooney
Certification = Platinum (RIAA)
Last single = "Baby I Love U!"
(2004)
This single = "Get Right"
(2005)
Next single = "Hold You Down"
(2005)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = single


Lower caption = UK CD 2 cover

"Get Right" is the lead single from Jennifer Lopez's fourth studio album, "Rebirth" (2005). Released on February 28, 2005 in the United Kingdom and March 15, 2005 in the United States, 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 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her first chart-topper in the UK for four years since 2001's "Love Don't Cost a Thing".

ong 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 2004 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.

Music video

The main video, directed by Francis Lawrence, depicts 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 which 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".

Parody

On the episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" broadcast May 16, 2005, Ellen DeGeneres 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, DeGeneres prances around the soundstage trying to keep up with the dancers.

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.

Track listings and formats

UK editions

;CD 1
#"Get Right" (Album Version)
#"Get Right" (Remix featuring Fabolous)

;CD 1 (extra tracks)
#"Get Right" (Album Version)
#"Get Right" (Remix featuring Fabolous)
#"Love Don't Cost a Thing"
#"If You Had My Love"
#"Get Right" (Instrumental)

;CD 2
#"Get Right" (Album Version)
#"Love Don't Cost a Thing" (RJ Schoolyard Mix featuring Fat Joe)
#"If You Had My Love" (Darkchild Edit)
#"Get Right" (Instrumental)
#"Get Right" (Video)

U.S. editions

;12" singleSide A:
#"Get Right" (Remix featuring Fabolous)
#"Get Right" (Pop Mix featuring Fabolous)
#"Get Right" (Louie Vega) (Radio Mix)Side B:
#"Get Right" (Louie Vega Club Mix)
#"Get Right" (Louie Vega Roots Dub)
#"Get Right" (Louie Vega Instrumental Mix)

;7" single
*Side A:
#"Get Right" (Pop Mix featuring Fabolous)
*Side B:
#"Hold You Down" (featuring Fat Joe)

;Promo single (unreleased)
#"Get Right" (Full Intention Extended Vocal Mix)
#"Get Right" (Full Intention Extended Vocal Dub)

Remixes

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

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

Charts

{| class="wikitable"!align="center"|Chart (2005)!align="center"|Peak
position
-
align="left"|Latvian Airplay Top 50 [cite web |url=http://www.lanet.lv/news/airplay/2005/050306lv.html |title=Latvian Airplay Top 50 – week 10 – 2005 |accessdate=2008-09-26 |work=Lanet.lv]
align="center"|9
-
align="left"|New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart
align="center"|2
-
align="left"|Norwegian Singles Chart
align="center"|7
-
align="left"|Portuguese Singles Chart [cite web |url=http://top40-charts.com/songs/full.php?sid=12646&sort=chartid |title=Jennifer Lopez – Get Right – Top40-Charts.com |accessdate=2008-09-26 |work=Top40-Charts.com]
align="center"|1
-
align="left"|Romanian Top 100 [cite web |url=http://www.rt100.ro/top-100-edition.html?edition=476&go=Go |title=Romanian Top 100 – 15/2005 |accessdate=2008-09-26 |work=Vento Consultanta SRL |language=Romanian]
align="center"|3
-
align="left"|Russian Airplay Chart [cite web |url=http://www.tophit.ru/airplay_week.shtml?week_st=1114459200 |title=Airplay Detection TopHit 100 |accessdate=2008-09-26 |work=TopHit |language=Russian]
align="center"|24
-
align="left"|Spanish Singles Chart
align="center"|3
-
align="left"|Swedish Singles Chart
align="center"|11
-
align="left"|Swiss Singles Chart
align="center"|3
-
align="left"|UK Singles Chart
align="center"|1
-
align="left"|United World Chart
align="center"|1
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100
align="center"|12
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
align="center"|38
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Pop 100
align="center"|12
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Play ¹
align="center"|1

¹ Louie Vega Club Mix.

References