Nelly puts an end to “spreadsheet text” debate

In 2002, when Nelly and Kelly released 'Dilemma', it really was a crazy part of my fond teenage years.

Here’s a quick reminder of the 2002 hit track below...

My friends and I knew all the lyrics to the song. We even tried to dress like Kelly and we all wanted that damned Nokia, ‘brick-looking’ phone that Kelly texted Nelly on.

One of the most confusing parts of the video, however, was the fact that Kelly texted him using an Excel spreadsheet… like, uhmmm? How would that even go through?

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I have always thought that maybe the technology at the time was a little too difficult and the only way they could text for the video was on Excel, and they hoped that the audience wouldn’t notice. Little did they know! 

Nelly has explained that “it was the thing at the time. That was the technology", and to be honest, I still don’t get it… and Nelly doesn’t understand why either. They could’ve just used a notepad to type their message or better yet they could’ve used the texting function. I’m sure that was a feature back then? 

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I guess this will go down as one of the world’s unsolved mysteries, along with Stonehage, the Pyramids, Julius Malema’s weight loss, and the Northern Lights!