Like This

"Like This" is a song by American singer Kelly Rowland, featuring vocals by rapper Eve. Recorded late into the production of Rowland's second solo album Ms. Kelly (2007), the song was released on March 13, 2007, as the lead single from the album. The artists co-wrote the song with its producers Sean Garrett, Polow da Don, Blac Elvis, and Jason Perry, with additional production from S-Dot. "Like This" is a R&B song, with its lyrics referring to a woman growing out of a past relationship. The song received generally positive critical reviews. Upon its release, the song became Rowland's highest-charting solo success since her 2002 single "Stole", reaching the top-ten in Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as the top-twenty in Australia and New Zealand and number 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. In addition, it became Rowland's first single to peak at the top position on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. An accompanying music video was directed by Mike Ruiz and filmed in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California in mid-March 2007. Writing and recording "Like This" was written by Sean Garrett, Polow da Don, Blac Elvis, Jason Perry, Rowland, and rapper Eve Jeffers. The song was one of the last songs on the Ms. Kelly album that Rowland and Garrett started working on in mid-September 2006 after the cancellation of My Story, the album's original version. Conceived around an instrumental track from da Don, Rowland declared "Like This" the perfect example of what attitude she exactly had on her mind when creating the revamped version the album, telling MTV News in 2007: "Polow already had this hot track. I loved the sound of the cowbell; it was so different! Sean and I started writing and he said 'Kelly this is your first single'." Happy about finally running "into that song that definitely sticks out" after many months recording, Rowland eventually took a break from recording. Initially titled "Wooo!" and "Bump like This", Rowland resumed recording weeks later after she had approached Eve to appear on the song. "I just heard Eve on this song", she recalled. "I knew her energy belonged on the song and, just like that, it all came together. Then I knew: This was the single [...] and it turned out he [Sean] was right." Garrett further elaoborated in an interview with MTV: "It's a great combination of her thoughts and her feel on the type of music that she likes to do. It's a cross between something in a club and on mainstream radio.