page_title: Say My Name
section_title: Music video
hierarchical_section_title: Say My Name / Music video
caption_attribution_description: English: Michelle Williams at the 2012 Drama League Benefit Gala.
context_page_description: "Say My Name" is a song by the American girl group Destiny's Child from their second studio album The Writing's on the Wall. It was written by Beyoncé Knowles, LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson and Kelly Rowland along with LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, featuring production by the latter.
  The song was released by Columbia Records as the album's third single on November 7, 1999, and marked the introduction of the group's second line-up with the newly-added members Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin. The single is the most successful of the four releases from the album.
  "Say My Name" won two Grammy Awards at the 2001 ceremony, for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best R&B Song, while also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The single's music video won the 2000 MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. It also won a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band or Duo along with a BMI Pop Award for Most Played Song. Billboard named the song number seven on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time and the best song of 2000.
context_section_description: Conflict among members of the group arose in December 1999, following allegations that the group's manager and Knowles' father, Mathew Knowles, was withholding group profits from Luckett and Roberson. They then allegedly asked Knowles for more money; they were dismissed from the group in January 2000. That same month, Mathew Knowles recruited Franklin and Williams to replace both without the signed members' consent or knowledge. The video for "Say My Name" was then filmed in late January 2000 with little time for the new members to learn the choreography. The video premiered on February 15, 2000, with Franklin and Williams alongside Knowles and Rowland, on MTV and BET simultaneously with the publication of a press release announcing the line-up change. Luckett and Robersons' vocals still appear on the song, despite their absence from the video. Franklin and Williams' vocals are not included on the track.
  The video, directed by Joseph Kahn, shows the four members along with two female and one male dancer singing and dancing in color-coded sets resembling apartment living rooms. Rowland is in blue clothes to match her equally blue room. Knowles is in an orange room, while Franklin is in a red room and Williams in a white room. After the first verse and the chorus, the girls, along with furniture from their respective color-coded sets, switch rapidly between the other members' sets. Soon after the second verse, all girls gather in a garage-like room complete with cars and Destiny's Child in black PVC-pants and orange tops and all of the dancers, dressed in black, from the video.
caption: The video for "Say My Name" marked the band debut of Michelle Williams (pictured) and Farrah Franklin.
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