We're telling the story of how a track destined for the literal garbage heap turned into one of the biggest hits of the decade
: The guys were leaving the studio at two or three in the morning and Ky was like, “Now it’s time to work!” They started singing the song and got to the “so in love girl” part, and Ky said it had to be different -- like, “What about, ‘I’m in love girl, so in love girl… girl you know it’s true,’” and then something else had to come after.
We put it together as a demo and released it and I thought nothing of it. He kept saying, “You don’t know how big that song is.” I just thought it was a dorky song. : It started in Baltimore and D.C. and Virginia was on it, Philly was on it, dudes in Chicago were playing it -- but it probably never got a lot further North than that [or further] South than Atlanta. It was a regional, decent hit. You might hear it on midday radio.
The head of the label came to us one day and said a company in Germany, Cooltempo Records, picked up our record, and then another label picked it up and put it out -- and they were looking for us and trying to work out a deal for us as artists. They were offering X-amount of dollars and [the rest of the group] were like, “That’s not enough.
: As a musician, I had been in the business at that point for seven or eight years and I’d gone through 10 albums, had a hit with “Object of My Desire” on Starpoint’s seventh album. But then we had no other hits after that then [“Girl”] came along. I was eternally grateful because it became a bigger hit than anything I had with my group. I wasn’t mad about it, I was very grateful that he did it.
Editor’s note: according to Liles, he and Holloman worked on the song’s verses and he collaborated with Adeyemo on the hook and Spencer and Holloman produced the track, which is why only three members of Numarx were creditedMe, Kevin and Rodney went up there, and the lawyer laid on us how much we’re gonna take in, and for us it was huge… to the point where we could buy houses and cars and stuff.: I retained my rights… and I got a lawyer and they did the paperwork.
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