Cameo Whores: Ashanti vs. Ja Rule vs. Gwen Stefani

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Whose omniprescence disturbs you most?

― J Blount, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ashanti's cameos are better than her solo work & ja's duets are better too & their track together is GREAT. Gwen seems totally useless on her cameos, like that Moby track. If not for the video, I wouldn't haver even noticed her.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How fantastic would it be if it was revealed that all three are huge fans of Cameo?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What are the odds they aren't?

― dleone, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what do you mean by disturb?

if you mean interrupt (as in, I perpetually notice), Gwen is the one.

c'mon...

― Steve K, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can guarantee you at least two out of three are.

― J Blount, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh heh.

Back to the actual question: All three of them work well as cameo artists. I'd say Gwen is the least successful in that her contribution to "Southside" was unnecessary, but she more than made up for it with "Let Me Blow Ya Mind". Ashanti should ONLY do cameos.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ashanti, odd one out?

― dleone, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't gwen's contribution to 'southside' record company-enforced? there is a moby-only version out there.

not that i am defending her.

although i am not fond of ashanti and her tinkerbell-sprinkle voice, either.

OH THE CHOICES WE MUST MAKE!!

― maura, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Moby wanted her on the original version of Southside, but schedules could not be worked out. They did manage to get together long enough to re-record it as a single, though.

Why do I know this? I have insomnia and MTV news comes on when other shows have commercials running.

― paul, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey now, we dont' got no time for psychological romance. No romance, no romance, no romance for me, nooo. Oh come on baby, tell me what's the word.

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ja rule is so fucking horrible

― chaki, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How fantastic would it be if it was revealed that all three are huge fans of Cameo?

Somehow I don't think Ja Rule is Larry Blackmon's type.

Nonetheless, damn you for getting to that joke before me.

― Andy K, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i really hate ja rule. his rapping suckxshit and he's always rapping with jlo, at least gwen has the sense to hang with eve.

― queen of the harpies, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I must be the only one who doesn't mind Ashanti. I mean, yeah, she doesn't really have a personality, but at her best she's filling that niche that Aaliyah opened up with "One In A Million" but never really ended up pursuing: slow jam R&B vocals = eroto- ambience. See "Voodoo" and "Rescue" particularly, where the psyched-out opulence of the music and her barely-there lightness match perfectly.

Tweet does this too, and better, on tracks like "Drunk" and "My Place", but the diff. is that Ashanti is really trying to *own* this area.

― Tim, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what the new Ashanti single is (probably not 'new' given the station I'm listening to - it reguarly plays 'I'll Be Missing You'!), but as far as repetitiveness goes it bothers me more than Philip Glass's "Music with Changing Parts". Which is a lot. I think a got a little queasy this last time!

― Josh, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ashanti is the queen! She's been doing this since 1989! She makes a cameo appearance on the KLF's "3am Eternal"!

Um, possibly that was a different Ashanti...

― Jeff W, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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