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singer her full name, Amerie Mi Marie Rogers. The correct answer is, of course, Amerie – or, to give the Washington, D.C. It’s not just these commentators who were getting it wrong – when I asked my wife who the song was by, she replied: “I dunno… Rihanna?” And yet, while watching a handful of Let’s Play-style videos in anticipation of receiving my own (delayed) copy of the game, I noticed how the track was repeatedly credited to Beyoncé. It quickly became a song you hoped for during any session – much like Robyn and Kleerup’s ‘With Every Heartbeat’ and the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘West End Girls’, which soundtracked one of my own memorable drives from Blaine County in the north to the city hub of Los Santos, into the setting sun. Between cuts from Stardust (the sublime ‘Music Sounds Better With You’) and Rihanna, on the Non Stop Pop network, came ‘1 Thing’. Being part of the always sonically satisfying GTA series, V featured no fewer than 17 in-game radio stations. I first noted this disconnect between my appreciation of the 2005 hit – number four in the UK, eight stateside, top 10 in multiple territories across Europe – and its public profile in 2013, around the release of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V.
‘1 Thing’… tends to get the job done, whatever the venue or vibe.Īsk someone who the track’s by, though, and answers don’t always come easy. But I’ve a few bankers, a clutch of proven winners. Bars, clubs, gigs, festivals, weddings – I’ve stood behind several decks and done my best to keep people dancing. I DJ from time to time, and not always at the same place.