Ciara, One, Two Step | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 31^st edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we highlight “One, Two Step” performed by Ciara featuring Missy Elliott.  

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 31^st edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we break down “One, Two Step” performed by Ciara featuring Missy Elliott.

Three words: “THIS BEAT IS…” Woo! Grammy-winning R&B/pop singer Ciara started off her career with a bang in 2004.  That was the year she unveiled the decadent Goodies.  Following the massive success of the title track, Ciara released another surefire bop in “One, Two Step”. “One, Two Step” features slick production courtesy of Jazze Pha.  He keeps the backdrop ‘clean,’ never throwing too many instrumental lines at the listener or crowding the star.  That said, the instrumental still packs a mean punch with its beat and colorful synths.

As for Ciara, she never gets too high or too low.  She delivers ‘cool, calm, and collected vocals, NEVER breaking a sweat. Even so, “One, Two Step” is incredibly sexy. Furthermore, the lyrics are F-U-N. After all, “THIS BEAT IS… / Automatic, supersonic, hypnotic, FUNKY FRESH / Work my body, so melodic, this beat rolls right through my chest.” Woo! Helping out Ciara is her hype woman extraordinaire, Missy Elliott, who later gets her own epic verse.  Of course, that’s not before THE BEAT IS “outrageous, so contagious, make you cave it / Jazze made it!” Also, it follows the centerpiece, the chorus!

“Rock it, don’t stop it

Everybody get on the floor

Crank the party up

We about to get it on

Let me see you one, two step

I love it when you one, two step

Everybody one, two step

We about to get it on.”

Sexy, sexy, sexy! Okay – let’s talk about the Missy Elliott verse now! For one, she spits, “I shake it like Jell-O, make the boys say hello.” Hell yeah! Furthermore, she interpolates some lyrics from the Teena Marie classic, “Square Biz”: “Because I’m five foot two, I wanna dance with you / And I’m sophisticated fun / I eat filet mignon, I’m nice and young / Best believe I’m number one.” Word! There’s more to say about the aughts gem that is “One, Two Step”, but it’s best experienced by listening and dancing to it as opposed to analyzing it. How did this bop miss no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?

Ciara // Goodies // LaFace // 2004

Ciara, One, Two Step: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 31 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; LaFace; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]