Songoftheday 6/3/21 - With every passing moment thoughts of you run through my head, every time that I'm near you I realize that you're heaven sent...

 

 

"So Into You" - Tamia

from the album Tamia (1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 15

 

Today's song of the day comes from Canadian singer Tamia, who had scored a top-40 pop hit in the spring of 1998 with the first single from her debut album "Imagination".  Her follow-up release was the midtempo love song "So Into You". Written by Tamia with producers Tim Kelley and Bob Robinson and interpolating the song "Say Yeah" by 70s funk titans the Commodores that also gave Lionel Richie and Ronald LaPread writing credit, the song doesn't break any ground lyrically, but Tamia's voice shines at the end of the record, buoyed by the bouncy bassline....

 

"So Into You" became Tamia's second top-40 pop hit in August of 1998. The song returned her to the top ten on Billboard magazine's R&B chart at #7. A third release from the Tamia record, the mournful ballad  "Loving You Still", was a minor R&B hit at #78.

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Here's Tamia performing "So Into You" on Motown Live in 1998...

Next up, in concert in Universal Studios that same year...

In 2003, rapper Fabolous brought Tamia back to redo "So Into You"'s chorus in his single "Into You" that reached #4 on the American pop chart...

Australian act Odd Mob topped their country's dance chart with a cover of the song in 2016. It featured singer Starley, who had a radio hit in America with "Call On Me" that same year...

This is actor/rapper/singer Childish Gambino performing the song for an Australian radio appearance...

The late rapper Pop Smoke's song "Something Special" samples "So Into You". It just missed the pop Top-40 at #41 in 2020...

Lastly, we come back to Tamia singing "So Into You" and 2018 top-40 R&B hit "Leave It Smokin'"...

Up tomorrow: Another Canadian seeks more romantic deeds.