♪ Why don't we ♪
♪ So why don't we ♪
♪ Why don't we why don't we ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Why don't we fall in love ♪
♪ So many things I'm goin' through ♪
♪ So much that I wanna do ♪
♪ It startin' to become so clear to me ♪
♪ Tomorrow ain't really guaranteed ♪
♪ So many days I thought of you ♪
♪ It's about time you knew the truth ♪
♪ Got to act quickly you and I ♪
♪ We fall in love ♪
♪ So many reasons why ♪
♪ Why don't we ♪
♪ So why don't we ♪
♪ Why don't we why don't we why don't we ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Fall in love ♪
♪ Why don't we fall in love ♪
♪ It's so many reason ♪
♪ It's the only thing that matters to me ♪
♪ It takes such a load off to let you know ♪
♪ That you're the only one I never want to go ♪
♪ Think I never did know what to do ♪
♪ A love I never felt now I feel with you ♪
♪ Why don't I just swallow each and every ounce of my pride ♪
♪ Everything you do I wanna feel again ♪
♪ Ain't no use for us to pretend why ♪
♪ Why don't why don't we ♪
♪ Why can't we why can't we why can't we ♪
♪ Why don't we fall in love ♪
♪ We we ♪
♪ Can we fall ♪
♪ Why don't we why don't we ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Why don't we fall in love ♪
♪ Fall in love ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Come with me ♪
♪ Tomorrow we're guaranteed love ♪
♪ Baby let's be ♪
♪ Why don't we why don't we ♪
♪ Why don't we fall in love ♪
♪ Why don't we why don't we ♪
♪ Oh oh ♪
♪ Why don't we fall in love ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ No no no ♪
♪ Whoa oh ♪
♪ Oh oh oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
(audience applauding)
- [Interviewer] Nice job, hello, (kiss smacking), two times.
- Thank you, doubles, always balance, always balance.
- Amerie, always balance, okay, now I know, now I know.
I just wanted to kiss you twice, that's how I do,
so welcome to The Train!
- Thank you, thanks for having me.
- Oh, it's our pleasure, you are beautiful!
- Thank you, thanks.
- Very beautiful, I hope you thank your mamma
and father every day, huh?
(both chuckling)
- Yeah. - Now you got
a little mix going on?
- I do actually, my mother's Korean.
- [Interviewer] Okay.
- And my father's black.
- All right, so are you,
I heard a rumor that you're an army brat?
- I am, so I lived all over the place.
- [Interviewer] Yeah?
- Not in L.A., I never lived in L.A.
- Never lived in L.A. - I never lived in California
but all over the states and overseas as well.
- Now did you like that experience
or how did you know what to call home?
Were you traveling a lot?
- Well see, I call D.C. home now
but I think it was for the good for me
because I moved around a lot, I learned early on
that you meet friends, you keep some.
- [Interviewer] Right.
- You might not stay in contact with others.
- [Interviewer] Right.
- But I think it really helped me with what I'm doing now
because I'm traveling so much. - Right, okay.
Now you mentioned Washington D.C.,
graduated from Georgetown, right?
- That's right, Hoyas!
- Uh-oh, now you got your degree?
- That's right.
- In?
- Well I was an English major and a fine arts minor.
- Right, now I heard a story that when you were a youngster,
you went to an MC Lyte concert in Alaska
and this was back in 1994.
- Why, where do you guys get this stuff from?
- [Interviewer] Hey, we gotta get the dirt!
- Who you been talkin' too (laughing)?
- We gotta get the dirt, that's what we do
but I heard there was an audience talent show or something
during MC Lyte's concert and you jumped in there.
- Well at the end of her concert,
she had a free open call thing
and she just wanted people to come up on stage
and do their thing whether they were rapping or singing.
- [Interviewer] Right.
- And at that time, I was gonna do whatever I had to do.
- Right. - To get my foot in the door
to be heard.
- Right. - So if I had to sing
on the street, I'd do it.
- Right.
- But I would just ran to the,
I bum rushed people to the stage, first of all.
- [Interviewer] That's right.
- And I was just jumping up and down
and I caught the bodyguard's attention
and he lifted me up on stage and then he gave me the mic
and I was just like, I think that was one of the moments
where I knew this is what I wanted to do.
- [Interviewer] And you just made it happen.
- I just sang.
- That's it, you sang and you are now on your way,
years later, just got off the road with Usher, huh?
- That's right.
- That must have been crazy.
- It was a lot of fun.
- Yeah?
- Taught me a lot.
- [Interviewer] Okay and now you're on the road,
currently with--
- With Nelly.
- Nelly and the Big Tymers, oh.
- Yes and the Big Tymers and Fabolous and it's a great tour.
- Right. - It's really a great show
from beginning to end.
- All right, all right well I know they're gonna go check it
if they can, now talk about the album, it's out, going gold.
- Well the album is in stores now.
- [Interviewer] Right.
- We are just about gold now.
- [Interviewer] Right.
- And very excited about everything,
we have a new single called "Talkin' To Me"
and we've definitely been blessed with that.
- [Interviewer] Doing something with LL?
- Yes, see!
- Tell 'em, tell 'em, come on now.
- Well we have the new single,
we co-wrote the single together, it's called "Paradise".
- [Interviewer] Oh, that's hot.
- And it's hot, it's hot - Okay.
- You all gonna check for this girl and LL together, huh?
That's right, that's right.
(audience cheering)
Well look Miss Thing, you are beautiful and very talented.
- Thank you, thank you.
- You deserve your success, I wish you much more of it
but please come back later and rock another floor.
- Thank you, oh most definitely!
- [Interviewer] Most definitely, she's coming back.
- Most definitely.
- Give her some love, this is the beautiful Amerie.
(audience applauding)
(upbeat music)
♪ Let's get it on ♪
♪ It's time to get down ♪
- [Narrator] The soul train
♪ Break it down ♪
♪ Let's get it on ♪
♪ It's time to get down ♪