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"It Wasn't Me" is the first single from Jamaican-American reggae artist Shaggy's multi-platinum studio album ''Hot Shot'' (2000). The song features vocals from English singer Rikrok. The lyrics of the song depict one man asking his friend what to do after his girlfriend caught him having sex with another woman. His friend's advice is to deny everything, despite clear evidence to the contrary, with the phrase "It wasn't me." "It Wasn't Me" has been regarded as Shaggy's breakthrough in the pop market, and is his highest-charting song to date, topping the charts in Australia, Austria, France, Ireland, the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It was the best-selling single of 2001 in the United Kingdom, selling over 1.15 million copies that year〔 and over 1.37 million as of 2015. ==Background== The lyrics of the song depict one man asking his friend what to do after his girlfriend caught him having sex with another woman. His friend's advice is to deny everything, despite clear evidence to the contrary, with the phrase "It wasn't me." Ultimately, the narrator says that the advice "makes no sense at all". The clean version of the song replaces the lyric ''"Picture this: we were both butt-naked banging on the bathroom floor"'' with ''"Picture this: we were both caught making love on the bathroom floor"'' and ''"Saw me banging on the sofa"'' with ''"Saw me kissing on the sofa"''. "It Wasn't Me" was originally never intended to be released as a single. Before the original version of ''Hot Shot'' was released in August 2000, Hawaiian DJ Pablo Sato downloaded the album from "a Napster-like MP3 site he won't name" and discovered that "It Wasn't Me" was "the album's standout cut." He played the song on American radio the next day, and in an interview, claimed, "The phone lines lit up right away. Within a couple of days, it was our number-one requested song." The song was then released as the album's first single in September 2000, following its radio success. The song is written in the key of C Mixolydian. A parody by an unknown author was made about the ''Scooby-Doo'' character, Shaggy Rogers. The video focused on him being caught masturbating (about the girl next door) by his mother. The song was also parodied on ''Svengoolie''. On ''The Chris Moyles Show'', the song was used as a prank call with Shaggy trying to book a taxi, with the final line being "Can you drop me off at ''The Chris Moyles Show'' on BBC Radio 1?, 97 to 99 FM".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaggy - Taxi )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It Wasn't Me」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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