My Love Is Like...Wo

"My Love Is Like...Wo"
Single by Mýa
from the album Moodring
B-side	"Little Too Much, Little Too Late", "No Sleep Tonight"
Released	June 10, 2003 (2003-06-10) (see release history)
Format	CD single Digital download 12" single
Recorded	The Record Plant (Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) Interscope Studios (Santa Monica, California)
Genre	R&B
Length	3:29
Label	Interscope
Writer(s)	Missy Elliott Charles Bereal Kenneth Bereal
Producer	Missy Elliott CKB
Mýa singles chronology
"Lady Marmalade" (2001) "My Love Is Like...Wo" (2003) "Fallen" (2003)
Alternative cover European cover

"My Love Is Like...Wo" is a song by American recording artist Mýa from her third studio album, Moodring (2003). Written and produced by Missy Elliott and brothers Charles and Kenneth Bereal, it was released as the album's lead single in June 2003.

Released two years after the number-one success of "Lady Marmalade", the track emerged as one of Mýa's biggest U.S. hits, reaching number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seventeen on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Internationally, it reached number twenty-five in Australia as well as the top forty in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand. A music video for the single, directed by Paul Hunter, earned Mýa two nominations at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Dance Video and Best Choreography.

Composition

"My Love Is Like...Wo" is a mid-tempo pop song composed in the key of G major. The song's tempo is set a slow moderate sixty-nine beats per minute in common time. Harrison's vocal range spans from G₃ to D₅.^[1]

The lyrics of "My Love Is Like...Wo" is composed in the traditional verse-chorus form. Mýa opens the song with brief spoken lyrics. She begins the first verse, followed by the chorus leading her into the second verse. The song continues to the bridge, chorus, then fades out with the piano.

Critical reception

Billboard magazine gave the song a positive review:

The doe-eyed girl next door is proving to be quite a versatile performer, with a decidedly vampish performance in the movie Chicago and new imaging that redresses Mýa as a sexy and certain young woman. The first single from forthcoming Moodring, due July 22, is a playfully coy call to arms for the singer's more tactile attributes, from her love, her kiss, and her touch to her sex, ass, and body—all of which "are like wo." Get it? An appropriately hip-swaying beat swirls around the vocal, courtesy of ever-hitworthy producer Missy Elliott. This is the record that will propel Mýa to the A-list among today's pop/R&B icons; throughout the song, she delivers womanly strength and sass with a knowing wink. Moodring sounds like a perfect fit.^[2]

Chart performance

"My Love Is Like...Wo" debuted at number eighty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked at number thirteen in its eleventh week, spending four weeks at its peak position and twenty consecutive weeks altogether on the chart. On the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs the song reached number seventeen in its ninth week and became the singer's sixth non-consecutive top forty hit. Internationally the single saw similar success, reaching the top forty in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Music video

The single's music video, released in May 2003 and directed by Paul Hunter, is a single video only showcasing Mýa. It features rapid and/or instant costume changes that mostly occur without the changing of a scene. The dancing in the video was choreographed by Travis Payne. An edited version excludes a few scenes during the striptease performance at the end of the video, such as the one in which Mýa pulls out of her swimsuit what seems to be a motel key, and also censors the word "ass" in the chorus.

The video was nominated for Best Dance Video and Best Choreography at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.^[3]

Tracklisting

U.S. CD single

1. "My Love Is Like...Wo" – 3:29
2. "No Sleep Tonight" – 3:46

U.S. 12" single

A1. "My Love Is Like...Wo" (Main Mix) – 3:31

B1. "My Love Is Like...Wo" (Acapella) – 3:31

B2. "My Love Is Like...Wo" (Instrumental) – 3:29

European CD single

1. "My Love Is Like...Wo" – 3:29
2. "Case of the Ex" – 3:55

European CD maxi single

1. "My Love Is Like...Wo" – 3:29
2. "Case of the Ex" – 3:55
3. "Little Too Much, Little Too Late" – 3:24
4. "My Love Is Like...Wo" (Video)

Credits and personnel

Produced by: Missy Elliott Co-produced by: CKB Vocal arranged by: Mýa Harrison, Ron Fair Strings arranged and conducted by: Ron Fair

Additional background vocals: Missy Elliott, Sue Ann Carwell Mixing: Dave "Hard Drive" Pensado Engineered by: Dylan "3-D" Dresdow Assistant mixed engineer by: Ethan Willdughby

Charts

Chart positions Chart (2003) Peak position Australian Singles Chart[4] 25 Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[5] 12 Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[5] 14 German Singles Chart[4] 73 Irish Singles Chart[4] 36 New Zealand Singles Chart[4] 33 UK Singles Chart[4] 33 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[6] 13 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[6] 17 U.S. Billboard Pop Songs[6] 8 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks[6] 10 U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40[6] 9

Year-end charts Chart (2003) Rank position U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] 64 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[8] 88

Release history

Region	Date	Label
United States	June 10, 2003	Interscope
Europe	August 25, 2003	A&M
United Kingdom	September 8, 2003	Polydor
Australia	September 9, 2003	Universal
New Zealand

References

1. ^ "Mýa - My Love Is Like...Wo Sheet Music (Digital Download)". Music Notes. http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0045307. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
2. ^ "Mýa - My Love Is Like...Wo - Review". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/reviews/1914017.story. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
3. ^ "MTV Video Music Awards History: Best Choreography". Rock on the Net. http://www.rockonthenet.com/mtvvma/choreography.htm. Retrieved April 11, 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Mya – My Love Is Like... Wo – Music Charts". αCharts.us. http://acharts.us/song/207. Retrieved November 26, 2008. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "ultratop.be - Mya - My Love Is Like...Wo". ultratop.be. http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Mya&titel=My+Love+Is+Like%2E%2E%2E+Wo&cat=s. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
6. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Moodring > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r646311. Retrieved April 30, 2010. 
7. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 2003". Longboredsurfer. http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/2003.php. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
8. ^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Year-End)". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=416&cfgn=Year-end+Singles&cfn=Hot+R%26amp%3BB%2FHip-Hop+Songs&ci=3068517&cdi=8711174&cid=12%2F31%2F2003. Retrieved April 6, 2009. ^{[dead link]}