Who Did It Better? - Rose Royce vs. Mary J. Blige (1976/1994)
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"I'm Going Down" is a song written and produced by Norman Whitfield, and performed by Rose Royce in 1976. It is from the film Car Wash and is featured on its soundtrack. In 1994, it was sung by Mary J. Blige.
The Rose Royce (original) version received moderate success. It peaked at number seventy on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number ten on the R&B singles chart. In the film Car Wash, the song serves as a double entendre, as it complements the screen time of Maureen, a forlorn prostitute who desperately seeks a chance at true love with "Joe," even as she turns tricks.
In 1994, American R&B singer artist Mary J. Blige covered "I'm Going Down", titled "I'm Goin' Down", for her second studio album My Life (1994). Her version was produced by Sean "Puffy" Combs and Chucky Thompson, featuring co-production from "Prince" Charles Alexander and Mark "Led" Ledford, and contains portions of "The What" (1994) by American rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Method Man. Released as the album's second single, Blige's version peaked at number thirteen on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number twenty-two on the US Billboard Hot 100. In mid-1995, Blige released a remix featuring Mr. Cheeks of The Lost Boyz. "I'm Going Down" is frequently performed at many of Blige's concerts and as well as live sets. - Wikipedia
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Saw the movie as a teenager & been HOOKED by Rose Royce's classic.💖
What movie I'm not that old
@@alexplum8736 Car Wash
Rose Royce no comparison. Gwen’s vocals are perfect on this track.
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ROSE ROYCE! Mary killed it, but the original classic had to be classic for her version to be relevant to the masses. Now, we have 2 classic versions because the original was clearly something Mary grew up with.
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♥️ Your Comment!!
Rose Royce. No Doubt!!!!
When I want to hear that song, I go to the original. 🤷🏾♂️ I love Mary j's version too though.
The original hands down..if not for Rose Royce, Mary wouldn't have the opportunity to redo this amazing song 🙌🙌🙌
What you said 🙌🙌🙌
Nah, MJB made it a black hood ballad. No question about it.
Nah, MJB took this to another level. The way she emotes kills the original. Idc who did it first Mary did it better. Facts!
@@Ronedymoore that's your opinion..it doesn't make it facts 😂😂 but I'm a fan of Mary's rendition too..I just like the original better..
Mary all day
Rolls-Royce hands down. And absolutely moving romantic heartbreaking version that mary-j-blige can only think about singing in her dreams
MJB slayed that song, but gotta go with the original slayers Rose Royce!
Rose Royce hands down
I've seen them both in concerts and Rose Royce is >>>>>
Rose Royce definitely did it better, but Mary J did it about as good as you could do it for a remake! I love both versions but Rose Royce’s version is on an entirely different level!!¡
Agreed 💯
LOVE ROSE, BUT MARY PUT HER HEART & SOUL INTO IT, LIKE SHE EXPERIENCED IT. MARY'S GOT MY VOTE, 1,000%! ✊🏽
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Rose Royce, although the Blige version isn't bad.
Let’s not forget the master producer Norman Whitfield who produced this. The man was a genius.
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Norman Whitfield was the most underrated produced of his time. Just great
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🌹 ROSE
Rose royce and its not even close
It really isnt
When you hear Rolls-Royce perform this song you absolutely can feel the compassion in the lyrics and the way she is singing them otherwise she just blows the doors off of Mary J blige's uninspired version
Love both, but Rose Royce did it for me.
Nothing against Mary J. but it's the original for me ❤❤🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏😘😘
Rose Royce
The Crying at the end sealed the deal..Rose Royce
Both are amazing BUT MJB just funked it up her own way, MJ style. I'm just glad the cover was close musically, that's what I care about
I like Mary J. Blige, but I'm going with Rose Royce.
Why do our people always have to create a need for a comparison? MB did a great job. However, pay homage to Rose Royce and leave it at that. Respect the trailblazers.
Because it’s a fun topic to debate on
Girl you are so beautiful 🥰
💯mad respect for soul train
@@l.w.wallace6904 Thank you.🙏🏽
@@RobinRichieProductions robin, you are so very welcome 😇
Rose Royce is the best version❤
Love me some MaryJBlige but Rose Royce is classic and simply the best. 💞🎼🎶
I was brought up in the Mary J era but I've always been an old soul. Rose Royce version was so raw and real. You felt it in the music
See I rock with the older version too, but it’s something about Mary J; you can feel that thing when Mary sings it from her soul🐐I’m gonna ride with Mary on this one🍫🤎🥰
Rose Royce for the win
They both sound GREAT!
Rose 🌹 Royce Of Course Always and forever 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🌹🤙🏽🌹🤙🏽🌹🤙🏽🌹🤙🏽 💕
This is tough for me... Rose Royce is the original and was released in one of the most prolific decades for R&B/Soul music. On the other hand I feel like Mary doesn't get enough respect because at the time she was part of the newer generation. A lot people don't like to give the flowers to the newer acts just cause they're newer. I'm leaning towards Mary...I resonant more with her story and what she was going through at the time. She has a more rawer Bluesy delivery. Mary should been a Blues singer anyway. People tend to associate it with Mary now especially if you didn't know Rose Royce song it first. Gwen sang it so hauntingly beautifully.. I feel like her version is lighter like a girl who just broke up with her boyfriend. While Mary's is very heavy emotionally. It's like I can sense the whole world falling on her...She was actually depressed during the recording of this album.
Rose Royce, sorry Mary, we talking soundtrack to my glory days.
“Rose Royce” undeniably!
Sang with so much passion.
Without question, there's absolutely _nothing like the original 70s music._ And there wouldn't be a *Mary* version, without the original queen *Rose Royce* laying it down. However, *Ms. Blige* is of our generation and brought the modern swag to it, so i give her a B+ for the effort. 💪🏽🎶
Rose Royce all the way; nothing like the Original and honestly I don't believe that anyone can ever beat or match that 💯
BLESSED DAY STAY SAFE
Rose Royce!!!!! The sweeter voice. Blige's voice is too rough for that song.
The song connects to the movie & the Car Wash soundtrack had hit after hit after hit. Many liked Mary’s version bc of the video. I wish I would “go down cause you ain’t around” 🤣
Rose Royce! Plus its attached to the iconic movie Car Wash
Rose did it,and ya'll know that
Rose Royce❤❤❤Mary I love you❤❤❤
I had to go back to the Rose Royce concert on YT which was “off the charts.” That was a dynamic concert.
No comparison, the original vocalist is just amazing. Makes me think of the movie carwash everytime I hear this song.
Rose Royce Forever!!
And wow, I thought *Mary's* version was on the _Waiting To Exhale_ soundtrack, for some odd reason - it was one of my mum's favourites. But it wasn't that song, it was another one. This is why we need folks like *Mike D.* and The *Reelblack* crew, for the culture. 🖤🙌🏽
Voice to voice, Mary Wins. Mary's voice owns the track and presents a more complicated emotive experience. Mary blends sadness and anger connecting to a broad audience who can see their own complex self in her voice. The voice with Rose Royce often gets drowned out by the band and only expresses sadness and desperation, void of her own power and reaction to the situation. Mary J. Blige took the original a few steps further, as a cover should. Very similar music, essentially the same lyrics, yet Mary still made it hers. And its not just the voice alone, but how Mary emphasizes certain notes, sharply cuts off other notes, and ends the whole song with a riff that leaves you hanging. Many who have been in this situation feel the same way; what do you do; how will this be resolved; or realizing that you simply have to focus on something else in your life, so you tuck away those feelings and move on. Even when you listen to both, Mary's still stands out. If you are going to hand it over to the original, simply because it was the original, it defeats the purpose of this entire exercise.
Obviously old school hahha thats why she covered it..
Rose Royce. No h8, MJ, gwirl!
Mary sang this like she was living it, Rose was good but Mary took it to a whole new level of passion with her grit and soul.
Rose The Original ♥️❤♥️
I prefer Rolls Royce hit. Mary J's version was depressing, gloomy but didn't catch my ear when I heard it.
Rose Royce, but I remember Mary J Blige bopping down those stairs in the video she made for the song, it was tight!
Rose Royce..... Still love mary though
I grew up on Mary's cover... The pain in her voice...
But she had a blueprint
The OGs, Rose Royce did it best
Mary-j-blige number one
I got to give up to BOTH...Mary did her thang as well as Rose Royce but old school is calling me...LOL💕💞💕
🌹 NO question !
Rose Royce set the blueprint. Mary's is nice though.
What!!??. Rose Royce of course!
Rose 🌹 Royce not a doubt and Mary J will tell you that peace ✌🏽 or she’ll I say duces ✌🏽😊
ROSE ROYCE👈🏿👈🏿👈🏿👂🏿👂🏿👂🏿
Both versions are good but I like the way Mary puts her heart & soul into it. So Mary J wins this battle.
The Stylistics V No Question
You Make Me Feel Brand New.
Who you got? Home town, Philly love!
The original because its the blueprint but Mary added more feeling and heartbreak in my opinion
Both ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rose Royce y’all here me
Rose
I was SO waiting for you to do THIS one!!
Spoiler alert: I’m not a Mary J fan, so you know I’m going Rose Royce on mines. I dig me some RR anyway, and I love the sound of organic pre-“synth driven” R&B…audio driven through an analog console and tracked on an actual tape…a warmth difficult to duplicate on a digital medium even with real instruments being played (like in Mary’s cover). And the vocals, in my ears, don’t sound equally soulful and heartfelt. I can’t look at the scene in Car Wash and put Mary’s version behind it and feel the same emotion. Sorry. Caint. So yeah - ROSE ROYCE!!!
MARY J Blige all day the way she emote them lyrics 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿❤️
Tough choice for me. I was born in '76 and in '94 I was a senior in H.S. making out with my GF to the "What's the 411" album. My memories are from Mary's version.
Rose Royce, however Mary did the cover justice.
I love me some Mary J now but she just can’t rock with the original version vocally
Come on is this really a debate Rose Royce with Gwen Dickey’s vocals are majestic and all original instruments as well coupled with the scene in Car Wash just makes it a classic!!❤️🔥🔥
Old Comicview joke:
"Hello, Department of Remakes, who's calling? Mary J. Blige?"
CLICK!
Rose Royce 🌹
Mary 😍
Rose Royce soul sista #1 just the feel when she is singing 👑💯🎯
BOTH 💙💃🏾
How can anyone compare when technology has advanced GREATLY.
M.J’s version has a better recording studio and vocal enhancement but the original version is good because they penned the song 🎧… period!
You Forgot Y-n-Vee (r&b group back in 1994 with their song " chocolate") also did a remake of this song too back in 1995.
I’m a 70’s baby and I lean a little more towards Mary’s version. The music instruments are a little more crispier and solid, and altho the original has more emotion to it, but Mary’s delivery hit different, and it’s what I’ve embraced more 🤷🏾♂️
Now that's funny u said the music instruments sounds more cryspy?? THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S A SAMPLE!!! It's rose Royce music lol !!!
@@anthonytaylor7928 Actually…I’d have to disagree on that a bit…according to the liner notes for “My Life”, this was replayed by actual musicians. If they sampled the original, they didn’t credit it. Diddy was death on his credits…usually.
@@odarquehunnett200 ok
@@anthonytaylor7928 Bro, I get it, lol, you’re team Rose Royce on this. The song is originally theirs, and you feel she sung it best.... Ok🤷🏾♂️.. I’m just speaking on finished product, sample and all. The track sounds better like that to me, and I like Mary’s version a little more.
You don’t gotta agree with me to accept my opinion 🤷🏾♂️
@@anthonytaylor7928 🤔😏So now what was it you was sayin????
Love this classic and it has to be Rolls Royce for me. Definitely better.👏🏿👏🏿
ROSE ROYCE
Rose Royce for me. Do you hear the timber in her voice? Just beautiful!
I almost can't tell the difference, so it would have to be Rose. Mary J Blige is great but the best she could do was replicate the same results without making a real improvement.
I like Mary, but can we do the song “who can I run too” the Jones Girls VS Escape who did it better?
Who Did It Better? - The Jones Girls vs. Xscape (1979/1995) czcams.com/video/x7sY4hQTzGg/video.html
THE JONES GIRLS!!!!
@@reelblack cool I didn't know you did that one
Rose Royce 🥰🌹
Yes Rolls Royce, but I still like MJB version though 🌹🌷🙋🏽♀️
Both songs sound EXACTLY the same to me. Can’t tell ‘em apart 🤷🏾♀️
I easily choose Rose Royce. The emotion is raw, honest, and gripping.
Rose Royce without a doubt whatsoever.
I like them both but I do think about the movie not the video
I never new about rose Royce but that mean I'm tooo young lol...I didn't ever know Mary sing this song lol...but i know about mart j Blige
I’m just doing to start it off by saying: Mary J. Blige 😂😂😂🤷🏾♀️
Wee will 👀tho🤣🤣
yeah, I’m laughing at your choice too.
@@samanthanickson6478 Ooooooo I’m scared LMAO, we are allowed to have different opinions. Get off CZcams and go release that tension 😂😂😂😂 weirdo
And the winner is Rose Royce by a vocal knockout!!! 🥊🎼🥊
Mary did good but all I can think of is Car Wash.
Mary J. Blige!
This is pretty much the music equivalent of the Michael Jordan vs. LeBron debate. More people are going to say the first was better but the second was just as good it just wasn't the first and for so many people, it's hard to have the first one be outdone
ROSE ROYCE. I love MJB, but I used to refer to her as the remake Queen, back in the day. I never heard a good remake of anything (song, movie, etc)