Baby Baby Baby

Album: Introducing Joss Stone (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • This funky soul number finds Joss Stone asking her lover how dedicated he is to her. The British singer really likes the guy and hopes he plans on sticking around. Stone wrote it with Danny P and Jonathan Shorten, while Tony! Toni! Toné member Raphael Saadiq produced the song.

    "It's like a feel-good, 'up' kind of song. Kinda Jackson 5-ish, but I made it my own," Stone explained in an interview with Harp in 2007. "It's classy, and musicians will appreciate it. Raphael played the bass and he f--king killed it – he's my favorite bass player right now. And we used all live drums; we put in scratches and stuff, but the drums were played."
  • In 2009, Stone leaked a music video for "Baby Baby Baby" that she made without the help of her record label. The clip begins with Stone arriving at her wedding, only to find her husband-to-be has gotten cold feet. It then cuts to her dressed as a policewoman and, later, a soldier, with the musician seen physically torturing and humiliating her fiancé in both scenes. The visual then shows Stone threatening to throw her partner off a building before it concludes with him turning up to the wedding while held at gunpoint. Marie Claire named it the "worst music video ever."
  • "Baby Baby Baby" was the final single released from Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, after "Tell Me 'Bout It" and "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now." It was her first song to fail to chart in both the UK and the US.

    Introducing Joss Stone, on the flip side, was a commercial success, peaking at #12 in the UK and #2 in the US. Recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas, where Talking Heads, Robert Palmer and Mick Jagger recorded, the fresh, modern album was described by Stone as "the first album I've made that I really feel is truly me." She added to Female First in 2007: "That's why I'm calling it Introducing Joss Stone. These are my words, and this is who I am as an artist."

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