2007Released
2:49

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"Tell Me 'Bout It" finds Joss Stone frustrated with a guy who won't express his true feelings to her. She's open to a relationship with him, but needs him to take action. "That is my life story," Stone vented to Female First in 2007. "It's like, 'Come on, tell me how you feel. Don't be such a wuss. It's clear that you like me and I like you, so just do something about it!'"

That person exchanging flirtations with Stone at the beginning of "Tell Me 'Bout It" is Tony! Toni! Toné! member Raphael Saadiq. He also produced the song alongside the rest of Introducing Joss Stone. In an interview with MTV in 2006, Stone gushed about working with Saadiq: "He just gets me, and musically, everything came together when he came along. For years, since I was 14, I've been trying to tell people what I want to hear. One, they didn't listen to me because I was too young; and two, they didn't know how to listen to me, because they really weren't in the same headspace as me. But he just gets it."

The music video was directed by Bryan Barber and filmed at 5 Pointz, an iconic graffiti space in New York City. 5 Pointz curator and renowned graffiti artist Jonathan "Meres One" Cohen cameos in the clip, spray-painting a mural of Stone. Cohen was also responsible for the soul musician's body paint on the front cover of Introducing Joss Stone. In 2013, 5 Pointz landowner Jerry Wolkoff made the controversial decision to demolish the site, replacing it with a 1,000-unit apartment complex. A number of murals were whitewashed as part of the move, with Wolkoff later being made to pay $6.7 million in damages to the artists impacted by the demolition.

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Tell Me 'Bout It.
A♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
109BPM

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Released By

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Virgin Records
© 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc.
℗ 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc.

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