2006: #4 - "Promise"

Something about the synthesized guitar/keyboard hook preceding and during the chorus of this song reminded us so much of Prince. And we love Prince. So we loved this song. The beat is beastly, Ciara does another fantastic Aaliyah impersonation, and everything sounds so clear and perfectly spaced apart that you would think this is a Timbaland production (it's actually Polow Da Don, who produced Fergie's first decent single, "Glamorous"). Classic.

P.S. - Again, for some reason Ciara's people have decided to disabled embedding, so I apologize for the ridiculous mess of a video. It was the best I could find!