Bangin' song from her Butterfly album in 1997. The then monikered Puff Daddy was involved in writing this, as was Q-Tip. Before this track, Mariah was know mainly for her pretty wet, wailing pop ballards, which my little sister loved. It was Honey that paved her way into RnB and a complete image change. Anyway, it's crackin'.
However, the music video is completely demented. It's unecessarily mad. I don't even know who was responsible for it, some thought at the time it was some sort of metaphor for her failed marriage to Tommy Mottola. Whatever it's about - bits of it are pretty awful. There's like two whole minutes of this terrible gangster acting, with possibly with most annoying male voice ever recorded. When the song actually starts Mariah strips down to a bikini within literally about ten seconds of the music starting...
Ah hell, I like the rest of the video, I just don't get the whole spy business. And it was instumental in shaping the future Mariah.
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