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    Fantastic: Will.i.Am (2007)

    I have no idea what makes one song really popular and leaves another virtually unheard. I don’t listen to a lot of Top 40 radio, but then, I’m no stranger to it either. I borrowed a copy of Will.i.Am’s Songs About Girls from the public library when it first came out. I can’t say that I was wild about “I Got it From My Mama,” but his production work on Nas’s Hip Hop is Dead was interesting enough that I wanted to hear a full album of his work (sans Fergie). Two years later, I don’t remember anything about Songs About Girls except for this song. And what a great song! At the time, I was so convinced that it was going to blow up. I would have bet money on it. And then, nothing happened.

    I suspect that “Fantastic” revolves around a sample from the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back.” I hear a tiny snippet taken from the major pentatonic guitar part, found in the left channel of the original song, best heard at the 1:25 and the 1:55 mark.

    Ah, but what the hell do I know?

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