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2000 song by Melanie B

"Tell Me" is a song by English singer Melanie B from her debut solo album Hot (2000). It was written by Melanie B in collaboration with LaShawn Daniels and Fred Jerkins III, and produced by the latter. It was released as the lead single from the album in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2000, by Virgin Records. "Tell Me" is an R&B song whose lyrics are directed at the singer's former husband, Jimmy Gulzar. The track received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its production. "Tell Me" was commercially successful, debuting at its peak position of number four on the UK Singles Chart, while topping the UK Hip Hop/R&B chart; it has sold a total of 109,000 copies in the region as of June 2017, becoming the singer's third biggest selling solo single. "Tell Me" also peaked at number seven in Scotland and reached the top 20 in Belgium's Flemish and Walloon regions. Nigel Dick directed a music video that depicts Melanie B accompanied by her dancers. To further promote "Tell Me", she performed the track on televised shows and events.

In March 1998, Melanie B began a relationship with Dutch dancer Jimmy Gulzar and married him six months later at a highly publicised wedding ceremony in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire. As a couple, they had a daughter, Phoenix Chi, born on 19 February 1999. She eventually filed for divorce in 2000, and the divorce was finalised later that year. The singer won custody, and reportedly paid a settlement of £1.25m to Gulzar. Meanwhile, Melanie B worked on her debut solo effort, titled Hot, which she described as "like a documentary of all the things that I've been going through in the last two years". "Tell Me" was the last song to be written and recorded for the album in March 2000. The singer chose it as the lead single as it was "very up to date [and] very now for me personally". It was released as in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2000, by Virgin Records. According to David Sinclair in the book Spice Girls Revisited: How The Spice Girls Reinvented Pop, the release was seen as a "fatal mistake" by her record company, as the Spice Girls' third studio album Forever was due the following month. "Tell Me" was written by Melanie B in collaboration with Fred Jerkins III and LaShawn Daniels; the former was also in charge of the music production and mixing for the track, while the latter did the vocal production. It was recorded by recording engineer Paul Foley at The Record Plant in Los Angeles, while mixing was done by Jerkins and Dexter Simons at Larrabee Sound Studios in North California. The lyrics of the song are directed at her former husband Gulzar: "What made you think I would be a fool/I now see through you/And you're the fool You didn't have no self esteem/And all you loved was Mel B's money". however, the singer stated that she did not see "Tell Me" as controversial, as she was a "very honest person and I want to sing things with conviction so I write from the heart". Nigel Packer from the BBC News stated that Melanie B sings in "typically no nonsense style" on the track. whereas BBC Music's Nigel Packer described it as "vitriolic". For Sarah Dobbs of Digital Spy, it was a "power reclaiming anthem". Heart wrote, "Scary Spice embraced her inner Janet Jackson with the funky R&B tune." Jackie Flynn of Dotmusic stated that "Mel B is shaping up as the best pop star" of all the Spice Girls as "Tell Me" was "another great single, a sassy piece of spiteful R&B"; she went on to say that "her solo career's proving increasingly classy then even if nothing else about the young lady is." However, on another note, Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian commented that the track "lacks the spite such a song demands".

In the United Kingdom, "Tell Me" debuted at number four on the UK Singles Chart for the week dated 7 October 2000, spending 11 weeks on the tally; meanwhile, it topped the UK Hip Hop/R&B chart. Across Europe, "Tell Me" attained moderate success. While peaking at number seven in Scotland, According to Melanie B, Dick did not want to describe the song in the video, instead portraying her and her dancers "enjoying [themselves]". A total of 24 dancers auditioned for the video, and she chose her friends from college to participate. and the 2000 TMF Awards.

+Release dates and formats for "Tell Me"RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref. (Reference)United Kingdom25 September 2000CD, cassetteVirgin