{"id":806811,"date":"2020-04-27T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=989562"},"modified":"2020-04-27T07:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:00:52","slug":"shaggy-gets-caught-red-handed-once-more-in-animated-it-wasnt-me-hot-shot-2020-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/shaggy-gets-caught-red-handed-once-more-in-animated-it-wasnt-me-hot-shot-2020-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaggy Gets Caught Red-Handed Once More in Animated \u2018It Wasn\u2019t Me (Hot Shot 2020)\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/shaggy-it-wasnt-me-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/shaggy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shaggy\" data-tag=\"shaggy\">Shaggy<\/a> has dropped a new animated lyric video for the updated version of his classic track, \u201cIt Wasn\u2019t Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Directed by Jay Will, the \u201cIt Wasn\u2019t Me (Hot Shot 2020)\u201d video offers a lively and fun retelling of the song\u2019s infidelity narrative, from the moment the narrator gets caught red-handed to the remorseful realization that the advice he\u2019d been receiving \u2014 deny, deny, deny \u2014 may not have actually been so sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt Wasn\u2019t Me (Hot Shot 2020)\u201d will appear on Shaggy\u2019s upcoming LP, <i>Hot Shot 2020<\/i>, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of his breakout 2000 LP, <i>Hot Shot<\/i>. Along with \u201cIt Wasn\u2019t Me,\u201d <i>Hot Shot 2020<\/i> will boast new versions of other Shaggy hits like \u201cAngel,\u201d \u201cBoombastic\u201d and \u201cOh Carolina,\u201d as well as previously unreleased songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMy initial thought for this project was to recreate the full <i>Hot Shot<\/i> album exactly how it was done, but then I decided I wanted to mix it up,\u201d Shaggy said in a statement. \u201cI lived that <i>Hot Shot<\/i> moment already and it was an amazing ride, but there is no need to re-live. I wanted to move forward and try new things, add some of my other hits like \u2018Boombastic\u2019 and \u2018Oh Carolina\u2019 and bring in different vibes while exploring some sounds we\u2019d never used before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For <i>Hot Shot 2020<\/i>, Shaggy teamed with producers such as Martin Kierszenbaum, Dave Aud\u00e9, Dwayne \u201ciLL Wayno\u201d Shippy and Shane Hoosong. <i>Hot Shot 2020 <\/i>will follow Shaggy\u2019s 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shaggy-new-album-wah-gwaan-release-date-791234\/\">solo album, <i>Wah Gwaan?!<\/i><\/a> as well as his 2018 collaboration with Sting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-sting-and-shaggy-throw-an-eclectic-reggae-party-on-44-876-629215\/\"><i>44\/876<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shaggy-it-wasnt-me-hot-shot-2020-animated-video-989562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaggy has dropped a new animated lyric video for the updated version of his classic track, \u201cIt Wasn\u2019t Me.\u201d Directed by Jay Will, the \u201cIt Wasn\u2019t Me (Hot Shot 2020)\u201d video offers a lively and fun retelling of the song\u2019s infidelity narrative, from the moment the narrator gets caught red-handed to the remorseful realization that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 23:19:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}