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1990) "Ice Ice Baby" is rapper Vanilla Ice's most famous and popular song, released from his album To The Extreme. "Ice Ice Baby" was the first rap single ever to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance in 1991 but lost to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This". The single, released by SBK Records, sold 15 million copies.[citation needed] The song was the first Billboard Hot 100 #1 single to not have an American release on a vinyl 45 during its initial chart run. The song also reached #1 in the UK, becoming one of the first rap singles there to do so.
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Rob Van Winkle drew controversy by claiming that he owed no royalties for using a bass line almost identical to "Under Pressure", citing one minor alteration. Although no lawsuit was ever filed, the rapper supposedly settled out of court, and songwriting credit was retroactively given to the members of Queen and David Bowie.
Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight claimed his friend had written the lyrics to the song, and forced Van Winkle to sign the publishing rights to him. It was reported that Knight had allegedly dangled Van Winkle by the ankles over the balcony to get royalties from the song. Van Winkle denied these claims, stating "They had some papers there and Suge took me out on the balcony by myself [...] He took me out on the balcony, and he had me look over the balcony, ya know. And I looked over and he basically says to me, 'You're gonna sign these papers here. You wanna come to my city, you're gonna have to pay to play, brother.' And I go, 'OK, I got the picture, ya know.
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For a million-selling pop star, Robert Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice, has had a pretty rough ride. His debut To the Extreme hit #1 in early 1991, and immediately, due to his numerous dubious claims to street cred, he became the willing punch line to any number of jokes regarding white rappers.
He has never recovered from that one blistering year in the sun. And yet his chart-topping Queen- and David Bowieinterpolating single from that year, "Ice Ice Baby," is a landmark that has never truly faded from view. The remainder of To the Extreme is a regrettable yet oddly charming curio of late '80s hip-hop production tropes, a rewrite of L.L. Cool J's "I Need Love" called, ahem, "I Love You," and some truly dumbfounding rhymes. To wit, this boast from "Play That Funky Music": "You're amazed by the V.I.P. posse/Steppin' so hard like German Nazi." The album, in addition to his thunderous lack of self-consciousness, doomed his public profile so completely that by the time his feature film Cold as Ice appeared a year later, he was drummed out of show business.
In 1994 he reappeared with dreadlocks and an astonishingly inept and hilarious "gangsta" record, Mind Blowin. Even the contemporaneous release of MC Hammer's The Funky Headhunter couldn't make Ice's paeans to marijuana ("Roll 'Em Up") or numerous attacks on persistent critics and fellow white rappers 3rd Bass seem less desperate by comparison. Again banished, he reappeared in 1998 with Hard to Swallow, in which he hitched his cart to the burgeoning rap-metal idiom. Produced by genre kingpin Ross Robinson, the record sounds as thick and vicious as Korn, and (surprise) the Iceman dumps eight years of resentment and recrimination into the mix, emerging with furious responses to his critics, as well as "Too Cold," an aggro retooling of "Ice Ice Baby." His most convincing music came when he appropriated the metallic white-MC style that he presaged. But it was all for naught; Hard to Swallow failed and was followed by 2001's utterly listless Bipolar.
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"Más de mil noches" es el título que recibe una de las canciones compuestas por el dúo bilbaíno Andermay desde 1999 y que se encontraba en una maqueta del grupo titulada "Desvío al paraíso" (título de uno de los temas de mayor éxito cuando se editase su primer disco "Un juego de dos" en 2003). En 2002 el tema fue presentado a la preselección española para Eurovisión que se celebró en la primera edición del programa Operación Triunfo. La canción sería propuesta, en principio, para ser cantada por Chenoa, que era una de las que tenía más posibilidades de poder colocarse en la final del programa; pero ocurrió algo inesperado para todos y, poco a poco, los fans de Bustamante fueron creciendo en número y votos y lograron desbancar a la argentina/mallorquina.
En 2003, el grupo volvería a intentar que uno de sus temas representara a España en el festival de Eurovisión y, esta vez sí, lo lograría con un éxito rotundo. "Dime" es cantado por Beth, elegida para representar a nuestro país en el festival, donde le fue concedido el título de "Mejor canción del festival" por los propios Eurofans.
Un tema pop-dance, fresco y bailable que, en la voz de Amaya Martínez, vocalista principal de Andermay, suena a música de ángeles.
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