We Need a Resolution
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| Single by Aaliyah featuring Timbaland | |||||||||
| from the album Aaliyah | |||||||||
| B-side | "Messed Up" "Are You Feelin' Me?" |
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| Released | April 13, 2001 | ||||||||
| Format | CD single, 12" single, cassette | ||||||||
| Recorded | March 2001; Westlake Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California) |
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| Genre | R&B | ||||||||
| Length | 4:02 | ||||||||
| Label | Blackground, Virgin | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Tim Mosley, Stephen Garrett | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Timbaland | ||||||||
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"We Need a Resolution" is a song performed by American recording artist Aaliyah. It was written by Static Major and Timbaland, who also produced and contributed a featured rap. The song was released on April 13, 2001, as the lead single for Aaliyah's self-titled 2001 album Aaliyah.
The song was a moderate success internationally. "We Need a Resolution" reached the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and the top 30 in Canada. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 119 on its list 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years. It was placed 21st on Slant Magazine's Best of the Aughts: Singles list and 30th on Stylus Magazine's Top 50 Singles: 2000–2005. The single and the music video was also ranked 8th and 6th, respectively, on Slant Magazine's Best Singles and Music Videos of 2001 list.Yahoo! Music formally known as "Launch" felt that this song was another classy slice of experimental R&B produced by Aaliyah
"We Need a Resolution" has a sparse arrangement with stop-start drum patterns, hand claps, and a clarinet sample from John Ottman's "Tricks of the Trade" from the score to the 1998 film Incognito. While this particular part of the song is in 10/8 time signature, Timbaland used quantization to make the "We Need a Resolution" beat completely in 4/4. The song's lyrics maturely present two perspectives in a passive-aggressive relationship. Aaliyah's sinuously sung concerns are playfully dismissed in Timbaland's featured rap. The song leaves its hook unresolved, plays backwards after Timbaland's rap, and concludes with a reversed loop of the vocal "where were you last night", which echoes the female protagonist's sentiment.
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