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Cross My Mind
2005 single by Jill Scott From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Cross My Mind" is a single released in 2005 by American R&B/soul singer/songwriter Jill Scott and from her second album, Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2. The song was an R&B top 40 hit, peaking at number 38 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[1] The song earned Scott her first Grammy Award in 2005, for Best Urban/Alternative Performance.
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Composition
"Cross My Mind" includes a jazz piano and loop, with Scott alternating between singing and speaking the lyrics.[2] BBC music critic Daryl Easlea considered the song to reflect her background in poetry.[3] Easlea described the song as a "poem set to minimal piano and beatbox" and considered its chorus "infectious".[3] R&B website Okayplayer included the track in its list of eight Scott songs that "celebrated sexuality through song", highlighting the lyrics "How amazing, how amazing/When you would spread my limbs cross continents", "Bump our bed way over mountains", and "Kiss this and this and this and this".[4]
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Reception
Critical
Rashod Ollison, writing for The Baltimore Sun, deemed the song a "prime cut" from Beautifully Human.[5]
Commercial
The song became a top 40 hit on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number 38 on the chart dated October 22, 2005, and maintaining that position the following week.[6][7] It also became her seventh top 10 hit on the Adult R&B Songs chart, reaching number 6 on the chart dated September 24, 2005.[8]
The September 24, 2005, issue of Billboard reported that the song was the most-played track on two stations: WHUR (Washington, DC) and WSRB (Chicago).[9]
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Accolades
At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, held in 2005, "Cross My Mind" was nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance.[10] It was one of three Grammy nominations for Scott that year, along with Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (for "Whatever") and Best R&B Album (for Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2).[10] Scott ultimately won the award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance, becoming her first Grammy win.[10] She would go on to win two more Grammy awards in 2007 and 2008.[11]
Track listing
- US CD" Promo Single
Charts
References
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