Always Aaliyah

We Need A Resolution

We Need A Resolution featuring her friend/producer Timbaland, the music video was released on April 13, 2001.

The song, "We Need A Resolution" described as having a "seductive Middle Eastern vibe" as the backing track slithers along with Egyptian feel.

We Need A Resolution opens with warpy clarinet samples as Timbaland dodges confrontation by repeatedly, saying "I'm tired of arguing" Aaliyah's first line in the song "cuts to the chase, responding in a chill, direct manner: "Did you sleep on the wrong side? I'm catching a bad vibe.

On "We Need A Resolution" Timbaland combines idiosyncratic beats, moody, off-key melodies and an insistent dirgelike chorus for a strangely hypnotic effect.

Lyrically the song maturely presents two perspectives in a passive-aggressive relationship. Aaliyah sung concerns are playfully dismissed in Timbaland's feautred rap. The song leaves its hook unresolved plays backwards after Timbaland's rap and concludes with a reversed loop of the vocal "Where were you last night", which echoes the female protagonist's sentiment

The music video:

Aaliyah sitting a dark room in a black dress and also appearing on a TV screen performing the first verse. Aaliyah can be seen laying on a glass bed with headphones on. During the second verse, she is in a scene with a snake around her neck in a snake pit, wearing a snakeskin underwear.

Timbaland's verse begins he can be seen in a dark room wearing shades. Aaliyah performs a dance routine with the male dancers during his verse, wearing a dragon t-shirt. The video closes with Aaliyah in the dark bedroom scene again and Aaliyah with one of the male dancers.

We Need A Resolution captured every single of Aaliyah's existence at the time.