Tank: I have a record on this album that’s extremely special. It’s called “I Hope This Makes You Love Me.” This record just speaks to the idea of how we try to barter for love. How we, in a sense, try to pay for it-like to love a person and to not get in return, or the same love in return and how far we’re willing to go to have that love reciprocated the way we want it to be. This song is an experience.ĮBONY: Aside from “I Hope This Makes You Love Me,” you dropped “You’re My Star,” which samples the Jacksons’ “This Place Hotel.” What made you decide to use pieces of MJ on your album? It’s like we do anything for it, and at the end of the day, it’s just in hope of being loved in return. Tank: It was actually just a moment where I was creating. I was trying to find something really cool to make a song with, and I started with the bassline. Unconsciously I started playing “Heartbreak Hotel.” As a musician, it’s just one of those bassline that you have to know. If I used Michael Jackson, it’s a nostalgic moment at the same time something current.”ĮBONY: Is the single written for anyone special? I’m playing this bassline, and I’m like, “Oooooh, this could be something. Tank: The song wasn’t written for anybody in particular, it was just for all women period. I get so irritated with women being called b*tches and hoes on songs, and those songs climbing to number one-you know, those songs just being the barometer by which all records are measured. For all the records that are calling out of name, this record is going to mention who you really are: you’re a star, you’re appreciated.ĮBONY: What do you think is the biggest difference between R&B circa 2000 when you debuted and R&B’s sound now? You need something degrading and defiling to gain listeners.ĭisappointing that my record doesn’t have this disrespectful shock value that you want to play it on your big station.
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