{"mvids":[{"idArtist":"114407","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"4a8ac23a-e27a-44db-814a-f8c31beb68e6","idAlbum":"2131085","idTrack":"32982792","strTrack":"Me&U","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/xtxuxp1360281112.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://youtu.be/2qgKIaxiPLY","strDescription":"\"Me & U\" is the title of a song written by Ryan Leslie and recorded by American recording artist Cassie. It was released in April 2006 as the lead single from her eponymous debut album, Cassie (2006). The song reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2006. It remained in the top forty for nearly five months.\n\nThe song's \"Bad Boy\" remix features Sean \"Diddy\" Combs and Yung Joc and the song's \"The Inc\" remix features Ja Rule and Harry-O. The single has been a successful debut as a top three single in the U.S., a top five single in New Zealand, a top ten hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and France, and a top twenty song in Australia. This song is featured on DANCE! Online, a multiplayer online casual rhythm game.\n\nThe single was certified platinum by the RIAA on December 14, 2006.\n\nIn the music video, Cassie comes in with her phone which is playing part of the chorus to \"Me & U\" while improvising some lyrics that were not in the original song. She puts the song on and begins to dance and sing along, hurting herself while doing a spinning move, changing her outfit, and then being able to successfully complete the spinning move later on. The video is directed by Norwegian-born director Ray Kay.\n\nIn July 2006 an unreleased, low-budget and suggestive video for \"Me & U\" appeared on YouTube. This video was in stark contrast to the more polished video that was shown on mainstream media outlets. Initially, it was removed from most websites but continued to appear on file sharing networks and eventually appeared again on the internet. Cassie has gone on record to denounce the original video (directed by Little X), which depicts her singing to an unidentified male at a night club before taking him to a hotel room where Cassie is depicted kneeling below him while caressing his genital region and then unbuckling his pants in night vision. Cassie's management maintains that the low-budget, risqu\u00e9 version was released only for European audiences.\n\nThe single became Cassie's most popular single to date, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 a short while after the song was released. It stayed atop Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay for 7 weeks. Following that chart's domination by Yung Joc's \"It's Goin' Down\", Bad Boy Records once again dominated a chart for much of a summer as it had done on the Hot 100 in 1997. \"Me & U\" also reached the top of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In the UK, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number twenty-three and, within a week's time, rose to a number six, remaining there for a week before dropping down to number nine. The song also did well around the rest of Europe, including France, Germany, and Ireland."},{"idArtist":"114407","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"4a8ac23a-e27a-44db-814a-f8c31beb68e6","idAlbum":"2131085","idTrack":"32982793","strTrack":"Long Way 2 Go","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/syquty1360281425.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://youtu.be/pC1YuWwgKP4","strDescription":"\"Long Way 2 Go\" is a song by American recording artist Cassie from her debut studio album, Cassie (2006). It was co-written by Cassie herself in collaboration with the song's producer, Ryan Leslie. The song was released as the second and final single from the album by Bad Boy Records on September 22, 2006. Musically, \"Long Way 2 Go\" is an upbeat hip hop song featuring prominent R&B characteristics with a laid-back and imperious theme to it. It talks about brushing away a would-be lover like dirt off one's shoulder. Additional vocals are provided by Ryan Leslie.\n\n\"Long Way 2 Go\" received positive reviews from contemporary critics who deemed it a stand-out on the album. It was also praised for its cool and playful nature. The single became Cassie's second consecutive top twenty hit in Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It also garnered further chart success in Australia, France and Sweden where it peaked within the top thirty. On the Billboard Hot 100, the single reached a peak of ninety-seven only, due to limited radio play.\n\nThe music video accompanying \"Long Way 2 Go\" was directed by Erik White. It premiered on MTV's Total Request Live on September 12, 2006. The video has a social networking theme to it and features Ryan Leslie playing the role of Cassie's would-be lover. Cassie has performed the song on Total Request Live and on 106 & Park.\n\nIn different fashion to previous single \"Me & U\", Cassie raps on \"Long Way 2 Go\". Speaking to MTV News, she explained what the song was about: \"The song is about a guy who's trying to get with me but he's got a long way to go.\"\n\nSal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine positively reviewed \"Long Way 2 Go\", deeming it a \"sassy smash-in-the-make that should prove popular with fans of Nelly Furtado's 'Promiscuous'.\" Cinquemani went on to praise Cassie's rapping in the song's verses, saying: \"Cassie raps the verses in a nonchalant, dispassionate tone, as if she's dismissing the advances of a poor boy while simultaneously blowing on freshly painted fingernails\". The Slant Magazine reviewer mentioned the lines \"I love it when they try to get intimate/Even though they know I really ain't into it\" as a highlight. Allmusic's Andy Kellman said that \"the snapping and swirling 'Long Way 2 Go' is just as irresistable in its flippant playfulness [as 'Me & U'].\" Kellman elaborated: \"Cassie scolds a hopeless suitor with such cutting nonchalance -- she's basically swatting a fly-- that you can see her delivering the lines by cellphone as she eyes a display of designer shoes.\" Doriah Lynskey from Blender said that \"Long Way 2 Go\" is as coolly imperious as \"Me & U\". Lynskey positively described its lyrical conception saying that in the song Cassie is \"brushing away a would-be lover like dirt off her shoulder.\" While Daily Mirror reviewed the track saying it shows that Cassie is no one-trick pony, further describing the song as \"blending cute and clever mating rituals\".\n\nIn Ireland, \"Long Way 2 Go\" debuted at number forty-nine on October 19, 2006. The single went on to peak at number fourteen and spend a total of ten weeks on the chart. Also on October 19, the single peaked and debuted at number twenty-eight in Sweden. \"Long Way 2 Go\" also achieved chart success in mainland Europe where it peaked at number forty-three in Germany and number forty-seven on European Hot 100 Singles. In France, despite peaking at a lower position (number twenty-one) than \"Me & U\" (number eight), \"Long Way 2 Go\" had a significantly longer charting length than it, spending a total of twenty-two weeks on the chart.\n\nOn October 22, 2006 \"Long Way 2 Go\" debuted at number thirty-eight on the UK Singles Chart. The single's chart debut brought about Cassie holding the record of being the only artist to have two singles in the top forty (the other being \"Me & U\" which was at number thirty-one that week) in the same week for week forty-three of 2006. The following week, \"Long Way 2 Go\" climbed twenty-six places to number twelve becoming the second greatest gainer for week forty-four of 2006 on the chart. The single peaked at twelve and spent a total of twelve weeks on the chart. It subsequently became Cassie's second top twenty hit and second most successful single to-date in the United Kingdom behind \"Me & U\".\n\nOn December 18, 2006 \"Long Way 2 Go\" debuted at number eighteen in New Zealand as the third highest new entry for the week. In its fifth week on the chart the single held the record for the greatest gainer of the week; climbing seventeen places from thirty-four to peak at number seventeen. In Australia, the single debuted at number twenty-four before peaking at number twenty-three for two consecutive weeks.\n\nIn the United States, \"Long Way 2 Go\" had minor chart success due to limited radio play. It spent two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-seven. It also peaked at number eighty-six on Billboard Pop 100 and at number twenty-nine on Billboard Rhythmic Top 40.\n\nOn July 17, 2006, Cassie told MTV News about her preparing a music video for \"Long Way 2 Go\". She said: \"We're probably doing the video in the next two or three weeks, so look out for it.\" It was filmed on August 17, 2006 with American music video director, Erik White. White's previous work includes \"Leave (Get Out)\" for American pop and R&B singer JoJo, as well as Chris Brown's \"Run It!\" The video premiered worldwide on MTV's Total Request Live on September 12, 2006. Baby G, a member of Brooklyn rock band Shinobi Ninja appeared in the video."}]}