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2000s, Blu Cantrell, Dallas Austin, Hit Em Up Style (Oops!), Music, One Hit Wonder, R&B, revenge, So Blu, top five hit
Hit Em Up Style (Oops!) (Arista, 2001)
Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!) is the debut single by American R&B singer Blu Cantrell, written and produced by Dallas Austin and featured on Cantrell’s debut album, So Blu (2001). It is Cantrell’s most successful single in the U.S. to date and her only single to enter the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number two (where it spent two consecutive weeks) in July 2001. It enjoyed similar success in Europe and Oceania. The lyrics propose that women should take revenge on cheating men by draining them of their available assets, both monetary assets and property. Cantrell has said that she did not particularly care for the song artistically, but the bitter feelings she was experiencing at the time led her to include it on the album anyway.