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Keri Hilson - Energy
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I gotta say, I’m not much of a fan of this song but the video is hot. Why is it so hard for songwriters to turn their songwriting success into singing success. There are examples of success obviously, The Dream being the most recent on the list. Ms. Hilson has a long career in the music industry. From Wikipedia:

Keri Hilson has been writing music for individual artists since 2001. She has written music for Britney Spears, Toni Braxton, Chris Brown, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Teairra Mari, Ciara, the Pussycat Dolls, Danity Kane , Avant, Ruben Studdard, B5, Diddy, Chingy, LeToya, Ludacris, Rich Boy, Jennifer Lopez, Shawn Desman, Kelly Rowland, Nicole Scherzinger, Lloyd Banks, Keke Palmer, Omarion, Tiffany Evans, and Timbaland. With many of the songs Hilson takes part in writing she also does background vocals, such as in “Runaway Love” and “Wait a Minute”.

Hilson has also made a name for herself as an arranger and background vocalist lending her talents on many of the songs she’s written. Hilson had remained behind the scenes for the most part until 2004 when she was featured on Xzibit’s single, “Hey Now (Mean Muggin’)”, for his album, Weapons of Mass Destruction. She made her performing debut at the 2004 MTV Europe Awards in which she performed the song with Xzibit.

In 2006, Hilson reappeared on the music scene in the video for Nelly Furtado’s single “Promiscuous”. Since then Hilson has signed with Timbaland’s new label Mosley Music Group which is in association with Interscope Records. The pair are currently working on the singer’s debut album, which is expected to involve further production by Timbaland, Danja, Xzibit, Polow da Don, The Underdogs, Organized Noize, Bangladesh, Tha Cornaboyz, Tony Dixon, Eric Dawkins, Tank and guest appearances by Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, and Justin Timberlake. The same year, she was featured on “Help”, the second single from Lloyd Banks’ Rotten Apple.

In 2007, Hilson has had several appearances on Timbaland’s solo effort, Shock Value. She is featured on “The Way I Are”, “Scream”, and “Miscommunication”. On international versions, she is also featured on a track titled “Hello”. She was also featured in “Lost Girls” and “Good Things” on Rich Boy’s debut album. On Britney Spears’ 2007 album Blackout, Hilson is credited as a writer and backing vocalist. Hilson is also set to work with Spears on her upcoming follow-up to Blackout.

Now she has her own album coming out in (hopefully) this fall titled A Perfect World. With Energy being the first single I’m not believing that it will be much of a success. I’m assuming she wrote the song, but all I can think is: She wrote hits for all of these ogher folk but she couldn’t write a hit for herself? Like I said, the video is steaming…she is a nice piece of eye candy…but that’s it. Kinda like the video for Jay-Z’a “come back” song…hot video…awful song. We shall see. But don’t be surprised if Ms. Hilson’s album goes from a Fall 08 release to early next year…sometime.