Me'Shell Ndegéocello - If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) |
Me'Shell Ndegéocello - If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos
Album: Plantation Lullabies
Released: 1993
If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) Lyrics
You say that's your boyfriend
You say I'm out of line
Funny he said I could call him up anytime
You can say I'm wrong say I ain't right
But if that's you boyfriend he wasn't last night
Now I'm the kind of woman
I'll do almost anything to get what I want
I might play any little game
Call me what you like but you know it's true
You're just jealous â??cause he wasn't with you
Don't mean no harm I just like what I see
And it ain't my fault if he wants me
Got what I wanted and the feeling was right
So if that's your boyfriend he wasn't last night!!!
Boyfriend boyfriend yes I had your boyfriend
Now late at night he calls me on the telephone
That's why when you call
All you get is the busy busy tone
You're upset â??cause you're one stuck-up bitch
Maybe he needed a change a switch
And who am I not to oblige
Especially if the man is fly
So call me what you like
Call me what you like
While I boot slam your boyfriend tonight
Writer/s: NDEGEOCELLO, MESHELL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The video integrates the images and voices of different women who don't appear in the recording. Throughout the clip, they make statements like "I have no one to speak to" and "I'm a very jealous person, I don't like other women." The idea was to deconstruct the ideals of beauty and what they do to women. This is something Ndegeocello struggled with as soon as she gained a modicum of fame. She found that she was suddenly being judged based on her looks, with industry types trying to calibrate her weight and forge her image.
The video did well on MTV, earning MTV Video Music Awards nominations for Best New Artist in a Video and Best Female Video.
"I like my personal space," she told us. "I wanted to figure out how I could make music, yet not be so much into promoting myself or trying to create some sort of image."
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