Top 100 Soul/R&B Songs
#40: Xscape 'Who Can I Run To'
Xscape was one of those '90's girl groups that I was somewhat always reluctant to admit to liking. Why? Mainly because what they lacked in sophistication, they more than made up for with their singing ability. Not just one of them, but all of them really could sang. Because despite their tender ages at the time, either you can channel the pain of lost love when you sing or you can't. And these girls did, and succeeded quite well actually. So well that is reached #1 on the R&B chart and a whopping #8 on the Pop Chart. While The Jones Girl original is a classic song of gut-wrenching pain and is damn-near pathetic for asking who indeed they can turn to immediately after their heart's been broken, there is a reason as to why it is not included on this countdown. This is our countdown, this is the song that we still bump, and this song is the version for our generation. Tags: jones girls, xscape
Comments
This is my favorite Xscape song, it takes me back to my first heartbreak. This was the jam at my junior prom. Yes it is a remake ,as my mother constantly reminded me as I had this on repeat but they did it justice.
jojodancer | June 24, 2008 7:54 PM | PermalinkI was an Xscape fan. All 3 albums. Well.. I'm kinda lukewarm on "Off The Hook".
rkj | June 24, 2008 4:49 PM | PermalinkThe third one is excellent though. The sequencing is very sly. Chronicles an affair - beginning to end.
I wish they had a longer run in the 90's.
Never liked this group much, Jermaine was trying to hard with the whole female Jodeci thing. Kandi turned out to be a great songwriter and I liked the stuff her and Shakespeare did when they had R&B on lock for a summer or two. (Even though Shakespeare was a blatant Timbaland Rip-Off) She had a cool joint on her solo album called Hey Kandi and it was nice to see/hear her on the Lil John/E-40 joint "You and that booty" . She (Kandi) should be caked up if her and Shakespeare had their paperwork in order. "Bills", " No Scrubs" , the N'sync joint and the Pink joint "There you go" alone should have netted them Millions.
Mutada al sader the king | June 24, 2008 1:54 PM | PermalinkI would argue that Off The Hook was the album where Xscape began to mature into a sophisticated group. They didn't have the high fashion glamour of EnVogue, it's true. But they had the kind of soul-stirring harmonies and lead vocals that (excepting Dawn) EnVogue just never had. They are truly two very different groups but in their own ways, each has set a standard for look and sound that is still unmatched before or since.
Tyler | June 24, 2008 9:19 AM | PermalinkI had forgot about this jam, good looking out, seems like every artist who gets down with Jermaine Dupree have a self life of a carton of milk...Kriss Kross...Dru Hill...Xscape....Da Brat....Janet, see a pattern here?............................
stoneyisland | June 24, 2008 4:36 AM | Permalink