Dilemma by Nelly (feat. Kelly Rowland)

There are certain songs that I'm always going to associate with the gym, mainly because the gym is the only place where I'd ever be listening to hip-hop. In fact, it's songs like 'Dilemma' that drove me to buy an iPod, in order that I could escape MTV Base or the KISS channel. I must have heard this song on average twice per gym session, which means about 6 times a week, and that's 6 times too many. The song is sung by the walking Band-Aid advert and the least attractive one from Destiny's Child; it also has a really catchy, irritating melody and plaintive 'oh!' noise in the background. When I actually read the lyrics (Nelly's bits in particular), I realise how completely un-hip-hop I am, because I don't understand half of what he's going on about. But I get the gist that they fancy each other but are already in other relationships - she has a 'boo' and he has a 'day-hey-ame' - and that's the dilemma. But then before anything can be resolved, he starts giving shout-outs to the East Coast, Down South, West Coast and Midwest, which seems a bit irrelevant (and careless - he missed out the northerners.)

Unintelligible lyrics: " But I, I like your steez, your style, your whole demeanor/
The way you come through and holla and swoop me in his 2-seater"

Verdict: No sympathy for their dilemma. And Nelly should probably leave Kelly alone in case her 'boo' pops a cap in his ass.