Before Adele, Coldplay and Amy Winehouse, a young name from Southhampton was the one waving the British flag on a worldwide scale. His name’s Craig David and today we salute him on From The Vault.
This week’s pick is ‘Seven Days.’
Serviced as the second single from the singer’s debut ‘Born To Do It’, ‘Days’ was written and composed by Mark Hill alongside the David – like the large majority of the LP.
Thematically, the song retraced the week-long romancing of a newfound love interest. To this day, it’s Craig’s biggest hit and is considered his signature song.
Wildly successful on home soil, where it debuted at #1 with sales of 100,000 units, but was also a worldwide smash peaking at #10 in the US, #4 in Australia and #9 in Canada. Not bad at all for a R&B newbie in a Britney and N’Sync dominated landscape.
The music video, directed by Max and Dania, had a ‘Groundhog Day’ theme with Craig reliving the same day over and over until he finally gets with “the” girl he met on the street.
Popular the world over, the clip was nominated for Best Video at the 2001 BRIT Awards, but lost to Robbie Williams‘ ‘Rock DJ.’
Thereafter, David’s success was heavily concentrated in the UK — despite a marked effort to further break into the American market with his sophomore album.
Now, after a hiatus of sorts (which ironically saw him relocate to Miami), the gifted star is back. With new album ‘Following My Intuition’ due in stores on September 30th, the moral of the story is to never count out authentic talent.
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He could’ve been drake but he ´s playin’
HES THE ORIGINAL DRAKE BUT WITH ‘real’ VOCALS
Now that’s a BEAUTIFUL voice but the Steroids have destroyed his once beautiful face
“I met this girl Monday, Took her for a drink on Tuesday, We were making love by Wendsay, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we chilled on Sunday.
#greatsong
omg i was listening to 7 days by mary when i opened this haha
He fell off s hoard and for so long he has about as much chance as Samantha Mumba for a comeback. Sucks because both were pretty good artistically for that early 00s era of music: European R&B Pop artists.
❤❤??? Love this one. Born to Die is one of those classic albums that will never get old. He was so smooth back then
Its called “born to do it” b****. bye
I still listen to ‘born to do it’ to this day. It is truly a classic in my mind. He lost me when he released that ‘what’s your flavour?” Song.
I couldn’t really get with the Craig thing that was going on at the time, something about his voice annoyed me and i didn’t think his songs were catchy. I’m glad that he’s getting a second wind and the kids are now singing his songs.
This was shittttt
In my opinion, ‘Born To Do It’ is one of the best R&B albums of the last 15 years – a certified classic. I play it at once at least every two weeks or so, lol. It’s such a shame the way he let certain detractors influence the way he approached his later music. He was parodied, called soft, inauthentic and all the other criticsms Drake deals with today. On a success tip, he could’ve been so much more.
Thanks grape juice for doing this post and giving him his much deserved props. And yes born to do it is a classic album. I’m a full Craig stan and I have followed his career over the years. I’m so glad he is releasing his new album and I think he will be able to crossover to America again soon.
This song has nothing on his other song Fill Me In. Now if you want a JAM, that is a JAM.
“Fill Me In” is one of the stupidest songs I ever heard. He’s half singing to/about a girls parents, being all apologetic for playing around behind their backs. How many young guys pick THAT as a subject matter to sing about? It has a flow to it, true, but lyrically it’s uber corny and totally ridiculous.
Craig David was wack. I saw him perform in 2002 at some venue with a bunch of other acts, including Ashanti. He got up there and covered Diddy’s “Bad Boy For Life,” but instead sang “Craig David For Life.” Big ass dork.
Nice music video even tho the song is old