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Briggs and Burruss specialized in telling off deadbeat men through playful R&B songs in 1999 ... 'Bills' was the sassy, harpsichord-synth-led first single
When I got with the girls at the studio, we were singing them the idea. I had the melody of how I felt like the verse should go, and we came together for the lyrics. ... I use a lot of my past relationships as inspiration. The relationship I had been in prior to [writing the song], I took inspiration from it...though I didn't tell them that.
Originally brought in for just one track, Burruss and Briggs not only ended up with five tracks but crafted its most recognizable sound...
'Bills Bills Bills' wasn't the first great piece of jittery post-Timbaland R&B, but it was the first to offer a performance that mirrored the hyper-finesse of the style's insectile stop-start surfaces.
She'kspere and I were in Texas. I think we were in the store or something. He started beat boxing the beat in his head; he was like, 'It'd be dope if we played off of bills. Can you pay my bills? Pay my automobiles?'
