Results: Truth Hurts: The Singer, Then The Song
Published on 08/25/2019
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In 2002, an r&b singer named Shari Watson used the pseudonym of Truth Hurts to score her only real hit, "Addictive." Sampling Bollywood movie playback singer Lata Mangeshkar's 1983 recording of "Kaliyon Ka Chaman." the song was part of its era's brief vogue for East Indian sounds in Western urban music. Apologies for the f-bomb one of my favorite rappers, Rakim, drops in the unexpurgated version of the recording heard on this question. Sorry, too. for the cameo made in the vid' by rapper/producer Dr. Dre, who owns Hurts' label but could have been as much an instigator of #MeToo as Harvey Weinstein was. ANYway, do you enjoy this fusion of US r&b and subcontinental Asian cinema soundtrack?
Yes, and I've heard this song already.
6%
147 votes
Yes, and this was the first time I heard it.
5%
129 votes
No, and I was already familiar with it.
4%
106 votes
No, and this is the first I listened to it.
24%
603 votes
Unsure/Kinda'/Some of it
12%
308 votes
I hadn't already heard it and didn't make the effort to listen to it here.
48%
1173 votes
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In 2019, Melissa Jefferson records as Lizzo and from her first major label album has a Top Ten r&b/pop crossover entitled-you guessed?-"Truth Hurts." Apologies for the multiple b-bombs she drops in this one, too, but its loping, piano-based loop, her vocal sassiness, and the way she has with reggae-inspired sing-jaying makes this a winner by me, too. How about you?
Yes, and I heard the song before this survey.
7%
184 votes
Yes, and this is the first I heard the song.
6%
136 votes
No, and I heard it previously.
5%
116 votes
No, and this is the first I heard this song.
22%
550 votes
Unsure/Kind of/In part
11%
260 votes
I hadn't heard the song previously and didn't make an effort to hear it here.
49%
1220 votes
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Which of the above recordings do you prefer? Truth Hurts' "Addictive"
6%
152 votes
Lizzo's "Truth Hurts"
8%
207 votes
Both about equally
9%
229 votes
Neither
28%
691 votes
I didn't listen to either of them.
48%
1187 votes
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Apart from songs whose titles purposefully name-check other musical acts, such as Taylor Swift's "Tim McGraw" and Rae Sremmund's "Black Beatles," can you think of any songs whose titles may inadvertently name another act, or any acts whomay inadvertently-or, what the hey, purposefully-have copped a song title for their name? Yes, and I'll comment on it.
3%
86 votes
Yes, but I'm not going to comment.
10%
245 votes
No
69%
1693 votes
Maybe (adn I may or may not comment)
18%
442 votes
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