"I Cry" is a song by American hip hop artist Flo Rida. The track was first released on September 18, 2012 as the fourth single from his fourth studio album, Wild Ones. The song is based on Bingo Players' "Cry (Just a Little)" which samples "Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell. Melissa Maerz from Entertainment Weekly said, "Most bizarre is I Cry, which speeds up Brenda Russell's 1988 smooth-jazz cheesefest Piano in the Dark until it has all the emotional heft of an LMFAO track. You couldn't program a robot to cry to it." Gleen Glomboa from News day said the sample of "Piano in the Dark" was "off" and wanted it to "speed up a bit."
This video is the original song that is used in Flo rida's chorus and his made it more hip hop/R&B to give it more life to the song and make it sound original. This technique is used a lot theses days as many artists take inspiration from old songs either from the beat or the lyrics and use them to give a identity to a song as this gets peoples attention as they try to guess what its from which brings many audiences in.
The song lyrically speaks of developing a crush on a woman at a strip club, while adapting the chorus of the 1984 Dead or Alive song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" in its hook. According to one of the song's writers, the chorus refers to oral sex. The song is sampled off of Dead or Alive's 1984 single "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". Flo Rida explained that he listened to that and similar records growing up as a result of the varying music genres his seven sisters listened to. However, his A&R Aaron Bay-Schuck had been the one to originally come up with the idea
This is the original song that has been used in another one of Flo rida's songs. Inspiration from other well known songs always come up in newer songs today as they give a good sound to the track.
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