Get Right

"Get Right"
Single by Jennifer Lopez
from the album Rebirth
Released	February 14, 2005 (UK) March 8, 2005 (U.S.)
Format	Digital download, digital maxi single, CD single, 12" single, 7" single
Recorded	2004; Night Flight Recording Studios (Fort Washington, Maryland) The Poolhouse West (Encino, Los Angeles, California) The Poolhouse (Long Island, New York)
Genre	Dance-pop, R&B, funk
Length	3:45 (Album Version) 3:48 (Hip Hop Mix Featuring Fabolous)
Label	Epic
Writer(s)	Rich Harrison, James Brown
Producer	Rich Harrison, Cory Rooney
Certification	Platinum (ARIA) Gold (RIAA, SNEP, RIANZ)
Jennifer Lopez singles chronology
"Baby I Love U!" (2004) "Get Right" (2005) "Hold You Down" (2005)

"Get Right" is the lead single from Jennifer Lopez's fourth studio album, Rebirth (2005). Released on February 28, 2005 in the United Kingdom and March 15, 2005 in the United States, the single peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Lopez's tenth top twenty single in the U.S.; it also peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her first chart-topper in the UK since 2001's "Love Don't Cost a Thing".

Song information

The song was written by Rich Harrison and produced by Harrison and Cory Rooney. It is most notable for its looping, blaring horn sample usage of a part of the 1974 song "Soul Power '74", written by James Brown and performed by Maceo & the Macks.

The song was originally recorded by Usher as "Ride" but did not make his 2004 album Confessions. There was a big yet publicly quiet dispute between Lopez and Usher for "stealing" the song. In the end, Lopez got the song and also used much of his original verses for the bridge "So much we got to say but so little time", etc.

Music video

The main video, directed by Francis Lawrence, depicts Lopez playing different characters at a nightclub: a DJ (the main character), a Go-Go dancer dancing upon the bar, a bartender, a nerdy, shy girl, a superstar, and other personalities attending the club, as they go about their ways. The characters are somewhat established at the beginning of the video. The "waitress" symphatizes with a friend, then goes about her job, serving drinks and such. The dancer entertains on the bar. The superstar makes her presence known through all her pompous glory. She also locks eyes with the nerdy girl, who eventually breaks out of her shy shell and begins to dance on the table. One of Lopez's personalities also dresses in drag, and has a slight shuffle with a male entertainer at the club. At the end, all of them move to the tunes spun out by the DJ (another one of her characters). The song features Marc Anthony's daughter, Ariana—portrayed as the little sister to the DJ character—, singing along with the music as the DJ is at work. It received four nominations at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards: Best Dance Video, Best Direction, Best Choreography, and Best Editing.

There is also a music video for the official remix of the song featuring rapper Fabolous which takes segments from the main video and extending them against a gray background. The dancing mainly consists of Lopez dancing with a cane in an old Hollywood sideshow-style dance routine. The other segments are Lopez basically dancing un-choreographed to the beat. All dance routines appear on screens throughout the club, as Lopez explains on MTV's Making the Video, "a video within a video".

Parody

On the episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show broadcast May 16, 2005, Ellen DeGeneres introduces Lopez as a guest, starting the segment of with: "The only way to describe my next guest is as my dancing partner, check it out..." A video VT plays of her joining in to the dance choreography of "Get Right". The director shouts "Action!" and dancing rather badly to the guide track, on purpose for laughs, DeGeneres prances around the soundstage trying to keep up with the dancers.

Anthem theme song in pop culture

That same year, the song became a national anthem theme song for the NBA helping the league promote the 2005 NBA Playoffs and the conclusion of the 2004–05 NBA season.

Track listings and formats

Remixes

Official

• Album version featuring Fabolous
• Album version
• Hip Hop Mix featuring Fabolous
• Hip Hop Mix
• Pop Mix featuring Fabolous
• Full Intention Extended Vocal Mix
• Full Intention Extended Vocal Dub
• Louie Vega Club Mix
• Louie Vega Radio Mix
• Louie Vega Roots Dub
• Louie Vega Instrumental
• M'Silver Realised Dream Tribal Mix
• Terror Squad Remix featuring Remy Ma
• Reggaeton Remix
• Instrumental
• Acapella
• DJ Envy Remix featuring Usher & Fabolous

Credits

• Jennifer Lopez – lead vocals
• Chris Avedon – engineer, assistant engineer
• Scotty Beats – engineer
• Rudaina Haddad – background vocals
• Rich Harrison – programming, multi instruments, producer
• Peter Wade Keusch – engineer, mixing
• Cory Rooney – producer, vocal producer
• Bruce Swedien – engineer, mixing

Charts

¹ Louie Vega Club Mix

Certifications

References