"I Do" is a song released in 1999 by the American vocal trio,

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. It was released as the group's second single in the United States and Japan, and the third single in Europe.

Background and composition

Originally, "I Do" was planned to be the second official single for Blaque in the United States since early in their debut album's roll out. However, because of the demand and success on

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radio that " Bring It All to Me" had in comparison, its promotion was postponed to 2000. Musically, it is a mid-tempo

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song with a "

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ed" up-style production similar to the

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. It has an "Instant hook, highly accessible melody and youthful vocals". The songs structure have typical R&B/

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based verses, while its chorus has a

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styled hook "filled with shoo-bop shoo-bop" ad libs reminiscent of

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. The chorus also includes other sounds such as clapping in the background. In addition the song has a tempo of 128 beats per minutes in the key of

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. In early 2000, the song was reworked and remixed by

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and sent to U.S.

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. The song's remix is a street-edged

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track with a funky bassline. It also features a sample of " I'll Do 4 U" by

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. This remix is one of the three remixes the duo produced for the group.

Music video

The video for "I Do" was directed by

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, who later collaborated with them again on their next single "Bring It All To Me". The video starts with a cartoon portrait of Blaque on a television before switching over to the members singing the verses in a colorful set wearing white outfits with silver accents. The music video uses a lot of ripple and glitch special effects to emulate flipping through channels on a television. During the chorus the ladies are dressed head to toe in hot pink while performing choreography in a futuristic fuchsia set with male background dancers. They switch over to a purple set, where they are dressed in purple velvet and fur pieces in front of large doors with the same cartoon portraits of the group. This setting is where there are shots of the group being watched from a futuristic tablet. During Natina's verse, she is wearing a karate uniform and handling nunchucks while being trained by

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before fighting Lopes during the latter's verse. Towards the end of the video, Blaque make a reference to ''

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'' when they jump up in the air utilizing

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editing. The music video made its debut on

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the week ending August 15, 1999, and a week later on The Box. It was resent to both stations months later on the weeks ending March 5, and March 12, 2000. The video made it its debut on

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on the week ending April 3, 2000. When the late singer

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hosted TRL in 2000, she mentioned that the video was "adorable" and that she loved the pink outfits they wore. Although the song didn't perform as well as the other album's singles, the video for "I Do" gave Blaque their first and only

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nomination in 2000 for Best Editing in a Video.

Track listings

Japanese maxi-CD single # "I Do" (Album Version) – 3:28 # "I Do" Featuring – Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes – 3:50 # "I Do (Without Rap) – 3:13 # "I Do" (Instrumental) – 3:47 # "I Do" (R&B Mix With Rap) – 3:57 US promo maxi-CD single, European promo maxi-CD single # "I Do" (Track Masters Mix) – 3:49 # "I Do" (Track Masters Precisions Mix) – 3:23 # "I Do" (R&B Mix With Rap) – 3:57 # "I Do" (R&B Mix Without Rap) – 3:56 # "I Do" Featuring – Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes – 3:49 UK promo 12" vinyl # "I Do" (Track Masters/Precisions Mix) – 3:23 # "I Do" (R&B Mix With Rap) – 3:57 # "I Do" (Album Version) – 3:25 # "I Do" Featuring – Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes – 3:49 # "I Do" (Track Masters Mix) – 3:49 US promo maxi-CD single # "I Do" (Edit Without Rap) – 3:11 # "I Do" (Album Version) – 3:25 # "I Do" Featuring – Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes – 3:49 European CD single # "I Do" (Album Version) – 3:27 # "I Do" (Track Masters Remix - 2000) – 3:28 US promo CD single # "I Do" (Album Version) – 3:25 # "I Do" (Track Masters Remix 2000) – 3:29 # "I Do" (Track Masters Remix 2000 W/o Rap) – 2:50 Australian enhanced CD single # "I Do" (Album Version) – 3:25 # "I Do" (Track Masters Remix 2000 W/o Rap) – 2:50 # "I Do" (Track Masters Remix 2000) – 3:29 # "I Do" (Track Masters/Precision Mix) – 3:23 # "I Do" Featuring Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes – 3:49 # "I Do" (R&B Mix With Rap) – 3:58 # "808" (music video) # "I Do" (music video)

Charts

Release history

References

{{authority control 1998 songs 1999 singles Blaque songs Lisa Lopes songs Music videos directed by Bille Woodruff Columbia Records singles