" Belly Dancer (Bananza)" (snippet) – 1:31."Kill the Dance (Got Something for Ya)" (featuring Kardinal Offishall) – 2:54.A competition winner from Blackpool, Daniel Ellwood, also starred in the video.
Actress Katerina Graham starred in the video as Akon's love partner. Music video Ī music video was produced to promote the single. "Lonely" is written in the key of C major. The song's tempo is 90 beats per minute in common time. The lyrics are sung mainly by Akon as well as Bobby Vinton doing parts of the choruses. The song was written by Akon, Bobby Vinton, and Gene Allan. I thought that was the place for us to start to get a fan-base knowing that we had a record like "Lonely", which was more commercial, to follow it." According to Foster in an interview with HitQuarters, ""Locked Up" is a street record. On hearing the demo track he had said, "This kid is official - this is a huge record." Despite offering the album's best option in terms of commercial breakthrough, SRC Records chose " Locked Up" over "Lonely" as the first single because SRC wanted to break Akon in the streets first and work towards a cross-over. When Akon was signed by Universal imprint SRC Records it was "Lonely" that had immediately caught the attention of SRC A&R Jerome Foster and convinced him of Akon's talents.
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