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SAMANTHA MUMBA IS a name which should bring back waves of nostalgia to you when you hear it.
She encapsulated everything that was important to us back in the early 2000s. Flowery jeans, tops that showed off your belly button, road safety adverts, the woman was incredible and her career should have continued far longer than it did. #JusticeForSam
However, we need to have a discussion about some of her music videos are they are truly incredible and need to be seen to believed. Before we start it’s only fair to point out that this was the early 2000s so we shouldn’t be too harsh on her.
Her VEVO account is terrible
Firstly we need an explanation as to why her official VEVO account on YouTube has videos for ‘Body 2 Body’ and ‘Always Come Back To Your Love’ which are terrible quality. They look like they were recorded using a potato with a piece of cling film stretched over them.
This isn’t some shoddy fan account, this is her official music video account on YouTube. You can find proper versions of the video on Apple Music so it’s not like it’s impossible to see them which makes it even stranger that the crap quality videos are still there.
Granted they only have around 40,000 views but still it could easily be rectified for our national treasure.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way there are two videos in particular that I would like to discuss.
Firstly Gotta Tell You is still a banger
‘Gotta Tell You’ was released in 2000 (yep it’s been 18 YEARS). It was also the title of her only studio album which she released at the tender age of SEVENTEEN. Remarkable.
Anyway the video is quite entertaining as it’s essentially 17 year old Sam wandering around some unnamed city in jeans and a pink crop top. At one point she just walks through some random family’s living room without any explanation at all.
From there she does the most noughties backflip I have ever seen. Olympic level gymnastics there from Sam.
Basically the video is Sam getting various modes of transport and occasionally waltzing and it’s just great.
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She wouldn’t get away with any of that kind of messing on the M50 anyway.
She ends the video in a sort of ‘Fast and Furious 6′ style with her running to try and get into a plane. Unfortunately there’s no sign of the Rock or Vin Diesel to help her out but she still makes it thankfully.
Secondly ‘I’m Right Here’ featured Bob Marley’s son
‘I’m Right Here’ was supposed to the single which launched Sam’s career in the US. It didn’t pan out that way as her second album ‘Woman’ was never recorded as the single didn’t sell well in the States. It reached number 3 in the charts here in 2002 though but that wasn’t enough unfortunately.
We can however console ourselves with the fact that the video was peak Samantha Mumba. Dressed as a firewoman, going around as part of a ‘Buster Patrol’ to punish bad men by spraying them with water. Mumba was years ahead of her time.
On the American version of this song, Bob Marley’s son Damien just shows up near the end to give us a quick verse. A verse which includes the line ‘She needs a love maker not a sex maniac’ which is nice I suppose.
Sam spends the whole song looking for a ‘good man’ and happily for her at the end, she does find one and she’s only DELIGHTED with herself.
She deserved nothing but happiness and she did get it in real life in the end. She’s 35 now and lives in sunny L.A. which her husband and her daughter Sage who is adorable.
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We need to have a discussion about Samantha Mumba's music videos
SAMANTHA MUMBA IS a name which should bring back waves of nostalgia to you when you hear it.
She encapsulated everything that was important to us back in the early 2000s. Flowery jeans, tops that showed off your belly button, road safety adverts, the woman was incredible and her career should have continued far longer than it did. #JusticeForSam
However, we need to have a discussion about some of her music videos are they are truly incredible and need to be seen to believed. Before we start it’s only fair to point out that this was the early 2000s so we shouldn’t be too harsh on her.
Her VEVO account is terrible
Firstly we need an explanation as to why her official VEVO account on YouTube has videos for ‘Body 2 Body’ and ‘Always Come Back To Your Love’ which are terrible quality. They look like they were recorded using a potato with a piece of cling film stretched over them.
IT’S A DISGRACE, LET ME TELL YOU.
This isn’t some shoddy fan account, this is her official music video account on YouTube. You can find proper versions of the video on Apple Music so it’s not like it’s impossible to see them which makes it even stranger that the crap quality videos are still there.
Granted they only have around 40,000 views but still it could easily be rectified for our national treasure.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way there are two videos in particular that I would like to discuss.
Firstly Gotta Tell You is still a banger
‘Gotta Tell You’ was released in 2000 (yep it’s been 18 YEARS). It was also the title of her only studio album which she released at the tender age of SEVENTEEN. Remarkable.
Anyway the video is quite entertaining as it’s essentially 17 year old Sam wandering around some unnamed city in jeans and a pink crop top. At one point she just walks through some random family’s living room without any explanation at all.
From there she does the most noughties backflip I have ever seen. Olympic level gymnastics there from Sam.
Basically the video is Sam getting various modes of transport and occasionally waltzing and it’s just great.
She wouldn’t get away with any of that kind of messing on the M50 anyway.
She ends the video in a sort of ‘Fast and Furious 6′ style with her running to try and get into a plane. Unfortunately there’s no sign of the Rock or Vin Diesel to help her out but she still makes it thankfully.
Secondly ‘I’m Right Here’ featured Bob Marley’s son
‘I’m Right Here’ was supposed to the single which launched Sam’s career in the US. It didn’t pan out that way as her second album ‘Woman’ was never recorded as the single didn’t sell well in the States. It reached number 3 in the charts here in 2002 though but that wasn’t enough unfortunately.
We can however console ourselves with the fact that the video was peak Samantha Mumba. Dressed as a firewoman, going around as part of a ‘Buster Patrol’ to punish bad men by spraying them with water. Mumba was years ahead of her time.
I mean look how much fun she’s having?
She’s sort of like Snoop Dogg with this motion.
It’s uncanny.
On the American version of this song, Bob Marley’s son Damien just shows up near the end to give us a quick verse. A verse which includes the line ‘She needs a love maker not a sex maniac’ which is nice I suppose.
Sam spends the whole song looking for a ‘good man’ and happily for her at the end, she does find one and she’s only DELIGHTED with herself.
She deserved nothing but happiness and she did get it in real life in the end. She’s 35 now and lives in sunny L.A. which her husband and her daughter Sage who is adorable.
We salute you Sam.
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