{"id":214948,"date":"2026-01-06T03:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/1-thing-was-released-this-month-21-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:37:58","slug":"1-thing-was-released-this-month-21-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/1-thing-was-released-this-month-21-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;1 Thing&#8217; was released this month&#8230;.21 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1767672000%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262176649%26%26%26youtube%26bbqVg_23otg%3A945e65af80abc203f18c609d40777b17e3802f03&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=bbqVg_23otg&amp;moduleid=2176649&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2176649\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>21 years ago, Amerie aka Queen of Blasia released &#8216;1 Thing, here are some fun facts:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>It peaked at #8, the only other Amerie song to make the top 40 is her debut single &#8216;Why Don&#8217;t We Fall in Love&#8217;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Amerie&#8217;s lower back korean tattoo is visible in the MV, its just her name in Korean<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The labels didn&#8217;t believe in the track and she and her manager reworked it several times to no avail<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>They leaked the song to radio stations where it started gaining steam<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Her label tried to suppress it as it was an unofficial release and also because JLo (surprise surprise) wanted the song<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Her label caved and began promoting it, also making it a last minute edition to the soundtrack for &#8216;Hitch&#8217;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>JLo settled for similar track called &#8216;Get Right&#8217; which Usher wanted to release for himself but that&#8217;s a different story<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>Other pop culture happenings in 2005:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Madonna released &#8216;Hung Up&#8217;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>the absolute chart domination of &#8216;We Belong Together&#8217; by Mimi<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Black Eyed Peas released &#8216;My Humps&#8217;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Iphone had not been invented yet (it would be another 2 years)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The first ever youtube video &#8216;Me at the zoo&#8217; was published<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Rihanna debutted with Pon De Replay<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bbqVg_23otg&amp;list=RDbbqVg_23otg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1_Thing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hung_Up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Humps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPhone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YouTube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YouTube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pon_de_Replay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ONTD, what do you remember about this era of your life\/pop culture? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131724635.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 years ago, Amerie aka Queen of Blasia released &#8216;1 Thing, here are some fun facts: It peaked at #8, the only other Amerie song to make the top 40 is her debut single &#8216;Why Don&#8217;t We Fall in Love&#8217; Amerie&#8217;s lower back korean tattoo is visible in the MV, its just her name in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}