This week’s From The Vault selection comes courtesy of Cassie and her infamous 106 & Park performance of single ‘Me & U.’
Extracted from her eponymous first album, “Me & U’ was the model’s debut effort. Released in 2005, the Ryan Leslie production was a sleeper-hit peaking at #3 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Hip-Hop/R&B charts in the US in 2006. It hit #6 in the United Kingdom the following year.
Beyond club play, it was the track’s high-octane video (which drew comparisons to Janet Jackson’s ‘Pleasure Principle’) that catapulted the release to the upper echelon of the charts.
Yet, could Cassie replicate the fierceness on-stage?
Unfortunately for the Bad Boy belle, the answer was an emphatic, embarrassing, and resounding “NO!”
Taking to the stage of BET’s then-flagship show, the beauty gave the ugliest of performances – characterized and immortalized by stiff, lazy, and laxed stage presence and vocals that just did not show up. Many wondered if she was asleep.
From the attempted acapella intro to the look of “even I know this is a mess” plastered on her pretty face , it was all a dismal disaster and ultimately spelled the end of whatever quest she had to be taken seriously. Her music career, as the last decade has shown, has never quite recovered.
It’s just her luck that this has happened back in 2006, because in the current viral age (see: Instagram, Facebook, memes and the like) her career in the broader sense (modelling included) is unlikely to have recovered.
Still, by way of her relationship with Diddy and a number of fashion focussed campaigns, she remains one of the most desirable ladies in the spotlight. Not a bad consolation prize.
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Damn that’s a beautiful girl, but what was Diddy thinking when he signed her? Also, what are the background singers doing? They ain’t helping her do sh*t…
They’re just miming to a backing track. There is no way there are 3 other people on this earth with the same bad vocals as Cassie
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Rhianna and Drake just dropped a new song Sam…called Work
Not quite a song, more a very low quality snippet
Wow! I remember hearing, people tearing her to shreds for this infamous performance. Its been so long and this is my first time actually seeing this lol
Now that is a case of non existent vocals! So much time has passed and i still cringe at the beginning when she’s part acapella and part backing track.
I personally never got the hype with the song as it was lazy and basic in every sense of the word.
Given Rihanna “lose my breathe” tribute tease
This mess….. girl.
I wasn’t quite fond of Cassie at all. She didn’t show potential, imo the music video was a ?. Cassie has to be Diddy’s worst female artist or if not the worst artist he has ever signed tbh. Sorry to be harsh but it’s true. Today, I think she is a bit better and has a sense of what she wants to do but idk about live performance.
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This performance slays Tinashe’s dreadful ass.
That messy juice still being shady in 2016. This blog spends too much time comparing artist, insulting and criticing. No wonder the only black female artist that are herd on the radio are Beyonce, Rihanna and Nicki minaj because we are always trying to tear someone down, rather than make room for improvement and room for all. Stop being the poison and start being the cure to more minorities on the radio and on award staged that salty juice.
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Thank you @Ar
This performance was not a good look on all fronts maybe she was not prepared for the performance or maybe she did not take it seriously and it hurt her big time. Either way she is still living a fabulous life by way of Puff.
Her song, “King of Hearts”, is actually a great vocal performance and she did great singing it live on 106 & Park, so I guess that was her redemltion. Lol!
Cassie’s so pretty! I wish this performance turned out to be a better one for her. I actually forgot how much I had ‘Me and U’ on repeat, I remembered each and every adlib in this song.
You know what, hun? If “Shake it Off” was nominated for a Grammy for the “Best Pop Solo Performance” category, then “Me & U” sure as hell could’ve been nominated for the same. I’m just calling it as I see it.
Was it nominated that year? ‘Shake It Off’ was actually a lot better than this song. ‘Me & U’ was just one of those songs that was out at the right time. You heard it every time you stepped out that summer. It grew on you!
This post was shady. I’m calling it like I see it because Cassie already redeemed herself and showed she was over her stage fright and could sing with
https://youtu.be/kmyPEOhZOWU
SCREAMING! She is pretty af tho.
did she get help to prepare? because, its not like she sounds awful, she was dragging the words. Most likely because she was nervous. Understood but the dance moves, what happen to the choreography?