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"So Gone" is a song by American R&B recording artist Monica. It was one out of several tracks rapper-producer Missy Elliott wrote and produced along with Kenneth Cunningham and Jamahl Rye from production duo Spike & Jamahl for Monica's fourth studio album, ''After the Storm'' (2003), following the delay and subsequent reconstruction of her 2002 album, ''All Eyez on Me''. Incorporating elements of hip hop and 1970s-style quiet storm as well as soul music, it features a sample from the 1976 song "You Are Number One", penned by Zyah Ahmonuel and performed by The Whispers. Following the less successful chart performances of previous singles "All Eyez on Me" and "Too Hood", J Records released the song on April 8, 2003 as the lead single form ''After the Storm'' in the United States. The song was lauded by critics, who praised its vintage touches and sparse hip hop–influences. "So Gone" became Monica's biggest commercial success in years, reaching number 10 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the top of both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and Hot Dance Club Play charts, becoming her first chart topper since 1998's "The First Night". The song's music video, directed by Chris Robinson and shot at Miami's South Beach in April 2003, features Monica as one half of a dysfunctional relationship in which she prejudges her man to cheat on her. It ends on a cliffhanger, which leads to the video for the album's second single, "Knock Knock". Nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Monica performed the song on several televised events, including ''106 & Park'', ''The Today Show'', ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' and MTV's ''Total Request Live''. ==Background and recording== "So Gone" was written and produced by rapper Missy Elliott along with Kenneth Cunningham and Jamahl Rye from duo Spike & Jamahl. Recorded by Demacio Castellon at Hit Factory Criteria in Miami, Florida, the song was mixed by Scott Kieklak, while Marcella Araica and Javier Valeverde both assisted in the audio engineering of "So Gone".〔 Backing vocals for the track were recorded by Monica, with additional vocals provided by fellow R&B singer Tweet.〔 Built around a prominent sample from the 1976 song "You Are Number One", originally performed by American vocal group The Whispers, writer Zyah Ahmonuel holds partial songwriter credits on the song.〔 The record is one out of three Elliott-produced additions to the partially re-worked ''After the Storm'' album, commissioned by J Records head and executive producer Clive Davis after Elliott's 2002 success with her fourth studio album, ''Under Construction'', and the delay of Monica's original third studio album, ''All Eyez On Me'', the year before. It was conceived during a studio session week in the Goldmind recordings studios in Miami in early 2003, with most of it being "done in probably three or four hours." Speaking about its sound, Monica said in an interview with ''MTV News'': "'So Gone' takes you back to when people first heard me. It's got that feeling like no holds barred, not trying to cater to any one audience."〔 Initially recorded for the US re-release of ''All Eyez on Me'', it was later featured on the re-tooled ''After the Storm'' only. Lyrically, the "So Gone" protagonist sings about almost losing her mind over an unfaithful man. "The song is saying that I'm so gone that I'm not thinking straight," the singer told ''Jet Magazine''. "I do that sometimes because I'm pretty hard. She (Elliott ) may have taken some of the real life from me and put it into song." The track features additional production by duo Spike & Jamahl, and while singer Tweet and rapper Busta Rhymes joined the recording sessions to provide vocals for a remix version of the song, Elliott also proposed Monica to start rapping over the record - a venture, that would become "second nature" to her: "Missy kept telling me that I act like a rapper so she encouraged me to rap on 'So Gone' and 'Knock Knock'. She would put together rhythms."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work= EJams.com )〕 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「So Gone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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