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Shouldn't the fact it was on hitch be added here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.225.112.39 ( talk) 00:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
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The single kicked off what would be a string of back to back hits for Usher. "Yeah!" was followed by number-one hits " Burn", " Confessions Part II", and " My Boo" (with Alicia Keys). The song not only shot Usher to new heights of fame, but it also made Lil Jon one of the most popular producers of 2004.
Musically, the song was influential in applying Lil Jon's "crunk" beat-making to a pop- R&B context—utilizing sung portions over Lil Jon's trademark huge, low-end synthesizer hooks. The song thus validated the applications of " Dirty South"-style beats to R&B songs—as on subsequent songs like Amerie's " Touch", Monica featuring Dem Franchize Boyz's " Everytime tha Beat Drop", and Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana's number-one pop and R&B hit " Run It!", actually produced by Scott Storch in a style heavily derivative of "Yeah!" and Lil Jon's crunk in general. Also Mario would do a very similar song: "Boom", from his 2004 album Turning Point, with similar lyrics, Lil Jon producing, and a rap collaborator ( Juvenile). There is a remix to "Yeah!" featuring Lil Jon, Ludacris, Bone Crusher, YoungBloodZ, Nivea, and Pastor Troy.
In 2004, Drunkenmunky remixed a sample from "Yeah!" into a hard house track with the same name.
The track was picked up by Z100 in March 2004, and managed to hit number one on the "Interactive 9@9" for a month and a half. On VH1, the song was ranked number one on the Top 40 Videos of 2004.
The song is considered one of the high points of the crunk movement in popular hip hop music.
I've just revamped the article and found some unsourced contents. Thank you. -- Efe ( talk) 09:42, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I am glad to report that this article nomination for good article status has been promoted. This is how the article, as of March 4, 2008, compares against the six good article criteria:
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I today was watching "Yeah!" music video and on the final of the video, there is a hallway scenes. I don't understand that scenes. Melyssa says to Usher "come here" and Usher is walking on the hallway when suddenly, Melyssa grasps Usher and Usher goes to a darkened room. We see Usher in the wall. In the end of that scenes, Melyssa takes the cap of Usher and she strains the hair. I just don't get it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.28.13.158 ( talk) 18:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
music battle - Yeah! vs. Love In This Club
I made a music video battle. Now choose the winner!
Info of the end of Yeah! : Melyssa says to Usher "come here" and Usher goes to a hallway. Usher see nobody on the hallway so Usher walk. Melyssa appears and grasps Usher and Usher beats against a wall. To follow, Melyssa takes the cap that Usher has in the head and she strains her hair.
Info of the end of Love In This Club : Instead of a hallway, Usher goes to a exit of the club and Keri Hilson appears and to finish the video, Keri disappear.
Now vote!
pVip (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 15:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Yeah! (Usher song)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Billboard":
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Reassessor: Till I Go Home ( talk) 06:30, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
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OK, sorry for the wait. Let's begin.
Done Replaced 2 dead links, removed German Year-end and TRL, as they could't be retrieved.
Done Included critical reaction
Done Added information on music video
Done Removed
Done The reference says in the 'fall' of 2003, so I included that
Done Improved
Comment The bottom paragraph makes a small notice of its composition, but I agree, I'm not sure why the original editor titled it composition. I'll see if I can expand it.
Comment The release talks about what happened after "Yeah!" was produced, the background is before, so I don't think they repeat. I'd say merging composition and release would be a better idea, seeing how background has enough information anyway.
Done Changed the date to January
Done The original editor already included the major reviews. I've added in the LA Times review, but besides that there isn't any more notable ones.
Done It probably was due to radio play, but I think finding a radio addon at this point is almost impossible. I removed the "prior to its physical release" part.
Done Changed
Done Changed
Done I interpreted it as shipping one million physical copies since its release, so in a period of 2 years. I think I made it more clear.
Done I've expanded the second paragraph
Comment This was suggested by the reviewer, who assessed the article the first time, per Talk:Yeah! (Usher song)/GA1
Done Expanded, and merged paragraphs so the section looks better
Comment I checked iTunes, VEVO, Yahoo! music videos, and other sites but no good. The only site I could find the video on was YouTube, but those were uploaded by users, so I'm not sure if they would be suitable.
Zac 03:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved: insufficient support. DrKiernan ( talk) 15:26, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Yeah! (Usher song) → Yeah! (song) – Neither of the other two songs have an exclamation mark. Unreal7 ( talk) 19:15, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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I just thought that since he was already mentioned twice it might diversify the paragraph a bit. I've changed 'former' to 'Lil Jon'.
Done.
I've removed the "Burn" as a candidate" part and re-worded the sentence. Changed 'now' with 'eventual'.
Ported over, with the sentence altered for better flow.
I've combined the background and release, though the composition section was to small on its own, so its been combined with reception. I think both sections flow better now.
The source doesn't give any particular reason to why he finds it distinctive, so I've removed it.
Included in formation.
The sales figure was already included at the end of the first paragraph in the chart performance section. I've made a note regarding the decade end chart just before it.
I decided to pass this. One of the concerns brought up in the previous review was the lack of sources from things like Google Books, but I did a search there myself and it didn't turn up anything useful—a couple Billboards, a few Usher biographies, a few Vibe articles, but nothing that isn't already in the article. If you can find more recent critical appraisal of the song (Best of All Time/Decade kind of things, reflection on "Yeah" as part of Usher's career or R&B history), it would be useful to improve the article, but not essential to become a GA.
The other next step for this article is to advance the quality of the prose. Right now most everything is sufficiently clear, but there are some sentences that could be tightened up. For example, a sentence that I reworded: "Though "Yeah!" had been created, the label was not ready to decide whether it would be released as the lead single, considering they had "Burn" on queue." There's some slightly awkward wording—"created" isn't quite right for a song. I put "completed," though "recorded" is probably also OK. Also, more crucially, "was not ready to decide" makes it sound like the decision was inevitable, and that it was only a matter of the label mustering the courage or something. Strictly speaking it's accurate, but it's also a bit misleading. I think it's simpler to simply put that "Burn" was the planned lead single when "Yeah" was finished, which states the case as simply and accurately as possible.
Otherwise, this is a well-researched and reasonably comprehensive article considering it's on a 2000s pop song, and thus worthy of GA. -- Brandt Luke Zorn ( talk) 20:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
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Shouldn't the fact it was on hitch be added here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.225.112.39 ( talk) 00:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Image:Usher Yeah.ogg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 20:56, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
The single kicked off what would be a string of back to back hits for Usher. "Yeah!" was followed by number-one hits " Burn", " Confessions Part II", and " My Boo" (with Alicia Keys). The song not only shot Usher to new heights of fame, but it also made Lil Jon one of the most popular producers of 2004.
Musically, the song was influential in applying Lil Jon's "crunk" beat-making to a pop- R&B context—utilizing sung portions over Lil Jon's trademark huge, low-end synthesizer hooks. The song thus validated the applications of " Dirty South"-style beats to R&B songs—as on subsequent songs like Amerie's " Touch", Monica featuring Dem Franchize Boyz's " Everytime tha Beat Drop", and Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana's number-one pop and R&B hit " Run It!", actually produced by Scott Storch in a style heavily derivative of "Yeah!" and Lil Jon's crunk in general. Also Mario would do a very similar song: "Boom", from his 2004 album Turning Point, with similar lyrics, Lil Jon producing, and a rap collaborator ( Juvenile). There is a remix to "Yeah!" featuring Lil Jon, Ludacris, Bone Crusher, YoungBloodZ, Nivea, and Pastor Troy.
In 2004, Drunkenmunky remixed a sample from "Yeah!" into a hard house track with the same name.
The track was picked up by Z100 in March 2004, and managed to hit number one on the "Interactive 9@9" for a month and a half. On VH1, the song was ranked number one on the Top 40 Videos of 2004.
The song is considered one of the high points of the crunk movement in popular hip hop music.
I've just revamped the article and found some unsourced contents. Thank you. -- Efe ( talk) 09:42, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I am glad to report that this article nomination for good article status has been promoted. This is how the article, as of March 4, 2008, compares against the six good article criteria:
If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to Good article reassessment. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations. JayJ47 ( talk) 09:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I today was watching "Yeah!" music video and on the final of the video, there is a hallway scenes. I don't understand that scenes. Melyssa says to Usher "come here" and Usher is walking on the hallway when suddenly, Melyssa grasps Usher and Usher goes to a darkened room. We see Usher in the wall. In the end of that scenes, Melyssa takes the cap of Usher and she strains the hair. I just don't get it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.28.13.158 ( talk) 18:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
music battle - Yeah! vs. Love In This Club
I made a music video battle. Now choose the winner!
Info of the end of Yeah! : Melyssa says to Usher "come here" and Usher goes to a hallway. Usher see nobody on the hallway so Usher walk. Melyssa appears and grasps Usher and Usher beats against a wall. To follow, Melyssa takes the cap that Usher has in the head and she strains her hair.
Info of the end of Love In This Club : Instead of a hallway, Usher goes to a exit of the club and Keri Hilson appears and to finish the video, Keri disappear.
Now vote!
pVip (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 15:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Yeah! (Usher song)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Billboard":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:43, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Reassessor: Till I Go Home ( talk) 06:30, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Infobox
Lead
Background and composition
Reception
Chart performance
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Track listings
Charts
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Reviewer: Status ( talk · contribs) 18:36, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
OK, sorry for the wait. Let's begin.
Done Replaced 2 dead links, removed German Year-end and TRL, as they could't be retrieved.
Done Included critical reaction
Done Added information on music video
Done Removed
Done The reference says in the 'fall' of 2003, so I included that
Done Improved
Comment The bottom paragraph makes a small notice of its composition, but I agree, I'm not sure why the original editor titled it composition. I'll see if I can expand it.
Comment The release talks about what happened after "Yeah!" was produced, the background is before, so I don't think they repeat. I'd say merging composition and release would be a better idea, seeing how background has enough information anyway.
Done Changed the date to January
Done The original editor already included the major reviews. I've added in the LA Times review, but besides that there isn't any more notable ones.
Done It probably was due to radio play, but I think finding a radio addon at this point is almost impossible. I removed the "prior to its physical release" part.
Done Changed
Done Changed
Done I interpreted it as shipping one million physical copies since its release, so in a period of 2 years. I think I made it more clear.
Done I've expanded the second paragraph
Comment This was suggested by the reviewer, who assessed the article the first time, per Talk:Yeah! (Usher song)/GA1
Done Expanded, and merged paragraphs so the section looks better
Comment I checked iTunes, VEVO, Yahoo! music videos, and other sites but no good. The only site I could find the video on was YouTube, but those were uploaded by users, so I'm not sure if they would be suitable.
Zac 03:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved: insufficient support. DrKiernan ( talk) 15:26, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Yeah! (Usher song) → Yeah! (song) – Neither of the other two songs have an exclamation mark. Unreal7 ( talk) 19:15, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Brandt Luke Zorn ( talk · contribs) 05:55, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
I just thought that since he was already mentioned twice it might diversify the paragraph a bit. I've changed 'former' to 'Lil Jon'.
Done.
I've removed the "Burn" as a candidate" part and re-worded the sentence. Changed 'now' with 'eventual'.
Ported over, with the sentence altered for better flow.
I've combined the background and release, though the composition section was to small on its own, so its been combined with reception. I think both sections flow better now.
The source doesn't give any particular reason to why he finds it distinctive, so I've removed it.
Included in formation.
The sales figure was already included at the end of the first paragraph in the chart performance section. I've made a note regarding the decade end chart just before it.
I decided to pass this. One of the concerns brought up in the previous review was the lack of sources from things like Google Books, but I did a search there myself and it didn't turn up anything useful—a couple Billboards, a few Usher biographies, a few Vibe articles, but nothing that isn't already in the article. If you can find more recent critical appraisal of the song (Best of All Time/Decade kind of things, reflection on "Yeah" as part of Usher's career or R&B history), it would be useful to improve the article, but not essential to become a GA.
The other next step for this article is to advance the quality of the prose. Right now most everything is sufficiently clear, but there are some sentences that could be tightened up. For example, a sentence that I reworded: "Though "Yeah!" had been created, the label was not ready to decide whether it would be released as the lead single, considering they had "Burn" on queue." There's some slightly awkward wording—"created" isn't quite right for a song. I put "completed," though "recorded" is probably also OK. Also, more crucially, "was not ready to decide" makes it sound like the decision was inevitable, and that it was only a matter of the label mustering the courage or something. Strictly speaking it's accurate, but it's also a bit misleading. I think it's simpler to simply put that "Burn" was the planned lead single when "Yeah" was finished, which states the case as simply and accurately as possible.
Otherwise, this is a well-researched and reasonably comprehensive article considering it's on a 2000s pop song, and thus worthy of GA. -- Brandt Luke Zorn ( talk) 20:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
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