You Gotta Be

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"You Gotta Be"
You gotta be.jpg
Original CD single cover
Single by Des'ree
from the album I Ain't Movin'
B-side
  • "Sun of 79"
  • "Warm Hands, Cold Heart"
Released28 March 1994 (1994-03-28)
Genre
Length4:04
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Des'ree
  • Ashley Ingram
Producer(s) Ashley Ingram
Des'ree singles chronology
"Delicate"
(1993)		"You Gotta Be"
(1994)		"I Ain't Movin'"
(1994)
"Little Child"
(1994)
"You Gotta Be"
(1995)
"Kissing You"
(1998)

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ) [65] Gold5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [66] Platinum600,000‡
United States—358,000 [67]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Media appearances

In April 1994, it was used by Sky Movies, for their summer preview commercial. In March 1995, ABC began airing an ad campaign for Good Morning America , aimed at attracting a younger demographic and also boosting male viewership, in which Des'ree's "You Gotta Be" played under scenes of "Americans immersed in morning rituals: commuters rushing, a young man shaving, school-bound children" intercut with shots of the Good Morning America hosts. [2]

Also in 1995, the song and music video were parodied by Ellen Cleghorne (playing O. J. Simpson's first wife Marguerite Whitley but visually resembling Des'ree) during a Season 20 episode of Saturday Night Live . While Luscious Jackson were the musical guests that episode, Des'ree herself performed both the song and "Feel So High" as the musical guest two episodes later. The song was also used for Ford's Focus commercial between 1998 and 1999.

This song was featured in the films The Next Karate Kid and The Object of My Affection . It was also used in a special promo for PBS Kids shown every Martin Luther King Jr. Day between 2001 and 2006. A cover of the song was also featured in an episode of Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 .

After being dropped from Sony in 2004, Des'ree did not allow the use of the song in films, television shows (including Glee [68] and Happy Endings [69] ) or commercials. However, upon her return to the music industry in 2019, the song was re-licensed, with the song being used in the film Captain Marvel and the episode of the TV show PEN15 , "Dance".

A reworked version of this song was used in the Big Sing 2008. The Big Sing raised money for CLIC Sargent and Marie Curie with hundreds of schools singing this song at the same time across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, breaking the record for "most people simultaneously singing the same song". [70]

In 2019, the song was featured in Captain Marvel and in an episode of the ABC series, Schooled . ABC used the song again in the series finale of Fresh Off the Boat , which aired in February 2020.

In 2021, the song was featured in CW's The Flash , covered by Mel B in an episode of Antena 3's Spanish adaptation of The Masked Singer , [71] and featured in a mashup with Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation in the 2021 adaptation of Cinderella , sung by Camila Cabello, Idina Menzel and the ensemble cast. [72]

In 2022, the song was again covered in The Lake, S1E5. It was sung by Billie, played by Madison Shamoun [73] [74]

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