I'll try to be breif since I'm not sure if this has been posted before but I was in Hollywood video the other day and I heard this song that sounded incredibly familar! It took me a while and then I realized it was Gwen Stefani's "Rich Girl" that I was hearing but it was a man singing it as "If I were a rich man..." and even the "la da da da" part. It was the entire chorus! I tried to find the TV and I'm not 100% sure but it looked like "Fiddler on the Roof"! And I have no idea how her and Dr. Dre got away with not listing the songwriting credit becuase it is so damn blatant but I'm sure those people have to be listed as songwriters somehow! As anyone else noticed this?

If I Were A Rich Man was written by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick for the Broadway play Fiddler On The Roof.

Both are credited as composers on Gwen Stefani's Rich Girl.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

I have quickly grown to HATE that song. The na na na na na shit really gets on my nerves.

And yet I'm a big Fiddler fan. Go figure.

VoicesCarry said:

great on fiddler on the roof,

sorta tacky...

Gwen baby, you can do better

if you ca't go back to n o doubt

I like the first Dancehall reggae version of this song that came out a few years ago by Michie Mee & Louchie Lou

boriquateddy said:

oh shit! boriquateddy exposin' Gwen like that, huh.. haha

i like it..

When you listen to the album every day, "Rich Girl" can get tiresome, but I gave the album a break for like 2 weeks and now I like "Rich Girl" again.

My least favorite? "Crash" I find it obnoxious!

I think the lyrics are abysmal!


" I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl"

Ummm...no shit!

CinisterCee said:

I hated The Real Thing but now I think its one of my favorite tracks....

Serious, is the best track on the album IMO.

There isn't much more this album does for me

jayaredee said:

"Serious" is my favorite.

Actually, my least favorite is "Bubble Pop Electric", not "Crash".

I love "Serious" too.

variety1317 said:

Me four.

And my bad on the songwriting credits. Bock and Harnick are listed as writers on the track, along with about half a dozen other people. Guess I just didn't notice it before.
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"Rich Man" is cool! Gwen's rendition in "Rich Girl?" Eh. Producers are getting out of control with some of this sampling. Still, nothing will ever top Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life" for pure randomness.

The whole album is full of weak lyrics

twink69 said:

I agree, but espesically "Rich Girl" and "Hollaback Girl". But then again, it's just a fun album, nothing deep.

VinnyM27 said:

And Hollaback Girl is the next single!! She's really picking all of the winners from this album, isn't she?

Axchi696 said:

Terrible but I guess she's considering that people right now have a love affair with lifeless and repitious "R&B", so it will probably be a hit.

I read when the album first came out that the song was an "interpolation" of the song "Rich Man" from "Fiddler On The Roof". Having never heard the song I made a fair guess that it was a blatant sample. They like to use that word "interpolation" in rap/r&b.

CinisterCee said:

Yeah Crash is dull, I am startin not to like Rich Girl and I think Danger Zone is kinda cheesy too, but everything else I absolutely love.

boriquateddy said:

i am also recalling a dancehall reggae version by worl-a-girl...lessee if'n i can find confirmation 'pon de net...

VoicesCarry said:

I think the entire cd sucks. Such pop fluff. I hope she goes back with the band and stops all this flaky solo shit.

0V3RF13ND said:

I didn't know Worl-a-Girl did a version too...

boriquateddy said:

yezzir, i seem to recall the refrain being "why no rich" but i cannot find it 'pon the net, seein'...