Single of The Day: Nelly - Just A Dream

Intro gitar di lagu 'Just A Dream' dari Nelly ini memang memanjakan telinga pendengar, stimulan untuk menikmati single berdurasi 3 menit 57 detik ini. Kalau urusan menyediakan lagu-lagu hip hop yang easy listening, jangan ragukan lagi kemampuan pria 35 tahun asal Missouri ini. Sejauh ini berhasil menjual 21 juta keping album di Amerika saja. Itu jadi bukti nyata kalau Nelly dalam berkarya emang enggak setengah-setengah. Billboard bahkan memasukkan namanya dalam peringkat 3 Top Overall Artist dekade 2000 - 2009, atas pencapaian luar biasa yang diperolehnya dalam rentang waktu itu pastinya!

Apa yang diceritakan dalam 'Just A Dream' adalah tentang sebuah relationship. A broken one, for exact. Nelly dibantu oleh Frank Romano dan Jim Jonsin dalam pengerjaan lagunya, dan Jonsin yang langsung turun tangan memproduseri single yang rilis sejak 16 Agustus lalu. Perhatianku tertuju pada sebutan-sebutan yang Nelly gunakan pada pasangannya "My lover, my life, my shawty, my wife". Dan saat putus asanya membuncah, 'Burn' dari Usher refers his feeling. Yang juga tertuang dalam liriknya.

Kapan terakhir kali Nelly muncul di 10 besar Billboard Hot 100? Itu adalah di tahun 2005 lewat single 'Grillz' dari album "Sweatsuit". Setelah itu tak satupun single dari album "Brass Knuckles" yang berhasil di chart. Tahun ini Nelly disambut kembali dalam 10 besar Billboard Hot 100 dengan 'Just A Dream', dimana lagu ini debut di posisi 9 dan sejauh ini peak di posisi 7. Lagu ini juga sukses untuk chart di Indonesia, bahkan sudah menjuarai CreativeDisc Top 50.

Sebagai single pertama dari album "5.0" yang akan keluar 16 Nopember nanti, single ini harus memberi dampak. Supaya orang-orang jadi antusias dengan albumnya tersebut. As I say, 'Just A Dream' adalah sebuah lagu yang mengandung nilai catchy dari 'Ride With Me' dan melodramatis 'Over And Over'.

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Lyrics:

I was thinking bout her, thinkin bout me

Thinkin bout us, what we gon' be

Open my eyes yeah, it was only Just A Dream

So I travelled back, down that road

Wish she'd come back, no one knows

I realize yeah, it was only Just A Dream

I was at the top and now its like I'm in the basement

Number one spot and now she find her a replacement

I swear now I can't take it, knowing somebody's got my baby

And now you ain't around baby I can't think

I should've put it down, should've got the ring

Cause I can still feel it in the air

See her pretty face run my fingers through her hair

My lover, my life, my shawty, my wife

She left me, I'm tied

Cause I knew that it just ain't right

I was thinking bout her, thinkin bout me

Thinkin bout us, what we gon' be

Open my eyes yeah, it was only Just A Dream

So I travelled back, down that road

Wish she'd come back, no one knows

I realize yeah, it was only Just A Dream

When I be ridin' man I swear I see her face at every turn

Tryna get my Usher on but I can't let it Burn

And I just hopes she know that she the only one I yearn for

More and more I miss her, when will I learn

Didn't give her all my love, I guess now I got my payback

Now I'm in the club thinking all about my baby

Hey, she was so easy to love

But wait, I guess that love wasn't enough

I'm going through it everytime that I'm alone

And now I'm missing, wishing she'd pick up the phone

But she made the decision that she wanted to move on

Cause I was wrong

I was thinking bout her, thinkin bout me

Thinkin bout us, what we gon' be

Open my eyes yeah, it was only Just A Dream

So I travelled back, down that road

Wish she'd come back, no one knows

I realize yeah, it was only Just A Dream

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up

And now they're gone and you're wishing you could give them everything

Said if you ever loved somebody put your hands up

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up

Now they're gone and you're wishing you could give them everything

[x2]

I was thinking bout her, thinkin bout me

Thinkin bout us, what we gon' be

Open my eyes yeah, it was only Just A Dream

So I travelled back, down that road

Wish she'd come back, no one knows

I realize yeah, it was only Just A Dream