"Are You That Somebody?" is an R&B and pop song with the avant-funk genre incorporated in the song's sound. and the last portions that were added to the song were the baby noises and Timbaland's ad-lib's.
The group worked on the song from 11:00 p.m to 9:00 a.m. "Are You That Somebody?" was recorded at Capital Records Studio In Los Angeles and according to engineer Jimmy Douglass the recording session for the song was "a soup-to-nuts session" meaning that the entire song was recorded and mixed in one session. In a behind the scenes video featuring Timbaland, he reveals that the record was recorded in a couple of hours after a show and that the record almost didn't happen. However, Aaliyah eventually agreed to record it. 2 Composition and lyrical interpretationĪccording to a Static Major in an interview for Vibe magazine, when Timbaland first presented the song to Aaliyah, she initially showed disdain for it.This song earned Aaliyah a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Slant Magazine ranked the song at number 19 on their 100 best singles of the 1990s list. Pitchfork Media included the song at number 8 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s. It was also ranked 18th on Spin magazine's Top 20 Singles of the 1990s, and 5th on The Village Voice's 1998 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Rolling Stone ranked the song number 24 on its "50 Best songs of the nineties list". The song was listed 387th on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, a list of songs compiled by Blender magazine. "Are You That Somebody?" was a commercial success, reaching number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 11 in the United Kingdom, number three in the Netherlands, and number one in New Zealand. The song samples the sound of a baby cooing from producer Jac Holzman's 1964 track "Happy Baby" from Authentic Sound Effects Volume 8 (later used in Perrey and Kingsley's 1966 hit "Countdown at 6" off The In Sound from Way Out!) pop radio stations on Septem(see 1998 in music). The song was co-written and composed by Static Major, who also sang backing vocals, and Timbaland, who, in addition to writing the song, produced and performed a guest rap for it. " Are You That Somebody?" is a song by American R&B recording artist Aaliyah, recorded for the Dr.
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