Songoftheday 11/12/21 - Nine o'clock home alone paging you, wishing you'd come over my place...

 

 

"So Anxious" - Ginuwine

from the album 100% Ginuwine (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 13

 

Today's song comes from R&B singer Elgin "Ginuwine" Lumpkin, who landed in the pop top ten in America in the autumn of 1996 with his male stripped anthem "Pony".  Two years later, he returned with a song off of the soundtrack to the Eddie Murphy reboot of Dr. Doolittle, "Same Ol' G", which would also be on his upcoming second album 100% Ginuwine. The track wasn't released as a commercial single, but got enough airplay to rise to #11 on Billboard magazine's R&B Airplay chart and #67 on the crossover Hot 100. The next offering from the second set in the spring of 1999 was the "What's So Different", one of the best productions of Tim "Timbaland" Mosley to date, but it stalled under the pop top-40 at #49 while stopping at #21 on the R&B Singles list. For the third single, the more lascivious "So Anxious" was released. Again written by Timbaland with Stephen "Static Major" Garrett along with Benjamin "Digital Black" Bush, the song is a booty-call plead for some nookie to his girl on the phone. And dialing it back to his "Pony" days, it comes complete with downtempo throbbing stripper-ready beat that's broken up in the music video by the requisite dance break (which was a thing in 1999)...

"So Anxious" became Ginuwine's second top-40 crossover hits on the Hot 100 in August of 1999. The song spent a week at #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart, and went to #6 on their Rhythmic radio format list. 

A fourth and final single from 100% Ginuwine, "None Of Ur Friends Business", rose to #48 on the pop Hot 100, and peaked at #7 on the R&B Singles chart. Ginuwine will be back to the series.

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Here's Ginuwine performing "So Anxious" on Live At The Apollo in 1999...

and lastly, with a backing band on BET that same year...

Up tomorrow: This alternative funk-rock band is wounded.