Same Girl by R.Kelly ft Usher

                                                                                                                                 Mikhala Andrade

                                                                                                                                Poetry of Song

                                                                                                                                    10.24.11

                                                                                                                                1 Song analysis

                                                                   Same Girl

                Assuming is to make a judgment or a claim without knowing the truth or facts. In our society, a lot of people assume things. Whether it’s good or bad. Usually when people assume things, they happen to be wrong. Shifting from an introduction of talking about a girl, to the realization that they both are with her. In “Same girl,” R.Kelly and Usher utilizes determined tone, powerful imagery, and scandalous irony to show us the listeners that they have been talking to the “same girl.”

                Through out the song, R Kelly and Usher have this determine tone to catch this woman that they believe they have been dating at the same time.  Using dialogue they show how they are really determined to catch her, and make her feel really stupid. “Don’t like the way that she’s been going about, going about. Kells what you think that we should do about it, about it? (Usher).”  R Kelly replies “Call her up at her home. She won’t know that I’m on the phone. Homie we about to bust this trick. Ask her to meet up with you and I’m going to show up too!” Then Usher responds by saying “and she won’t know what to do! And we’ll be standing there singing same girl.” In this part of the song, listeners can clearly see how determined and focused they both are to reach their goal. Which was to confront the girl, and make her embarrassed and feel ashamed.

                 In the beginning of the song, R.Kelly also uses powerful imagery to describe the girl that he has been talking to. “She stands about 5’4”, coka cola, red bone.” When R.kelly describes what the girl looks like, Usher makes a connection, and uses more imagery to convey that he believes he’s talking to  the same girl. “Wait a minute hold on dog. Do she got a crib? By the waffle house?  Do she got a beauty mark on the left side of her mouth? Went to Georgia Tech? Works for TBS? Man I can’t believe this s*** damn!” In this part of the song, Usher and Rkelly feel betrayed and feel that they got played.

Due to the fact they feel stupid for falling for the same girl, they both decided to get revenge. The plan was that Usher was going to ask the girl to go on a date with him, and then surprise her with Rkelly being there. So that way she would feel the same way that they were feeling. However the song is ironic because at the end of the song R Kelly says “and she won’t know what to do, and we’ll be standing there singing same girl.”But in the music video as they were singing “same girl,” the girl that they both thought they were talking to, has an identical twin.

In life we always seem to assume things, when really we shouldn’t be assuming. Due to the fact that we can always be dead wrong. This song has great morals, and teaches us that we shouldn’t assume and try to get revenge back. Because we can always end up looking stupid at the end.