Naughty Girl

Genesis and composition

After the release of the album Survivor in 2001 from her former band Destiny’s Child , Beyoncé is pursuing a solo career and working on her debut album, Dangerously in Love . Beyoncé says that the disc is more personal than his previous recordings because she had to write for itself ¹ . She contacts various musical collaborators; including Scott Storch, who produced hits from Christina Aguilera , Robert Waller and his personal assistant, songwriter and cousin Angela Beyincé. Storch and Beyoncé sample the chorus of the 1975 song Love to Love You Baby , originally performed by Donna Summerand written by Summer, Pete Bellotte and Giorgio Moroder .

Naughty Girl is an R’n’B song based on a dominant Phrygian scale with a C tip. It is written in a 4/4 rhythmic signature and is set at a moderate number of 102 beats per minute . Beyoncé’s voice covers an octave and a half, from Si ₃ to Fa ₅ ² . The song is influenced by Arabic music, resulting from its disco-oriented and high tempo ³ .

Output and reception

Naughty Girl is released as the fourth and last single from the album, at Columbia Records ⁴ . The track was originally to be the first single of the album before Crazy in Love was chosen. The first single was released in the UK on 30 March 2004, it contains four tracks and a multimedia track “Headliner” ⁵ . In the United States, it was released in maximum 45 rpm on April 20 ⁶ . A single CD was released in Australia on April 23; it contains the version of the album, two remixes of the song, and I Know of Destiny’s Child which is taken from the soundtrack of The Fighting Temptations ³.

Naughty Girl is critically acclaimed, citing her sensual vibe. Neil Drumming of Entertainment Weekly finds Beyoncé’s song “not quite convincing for a naughty girl” ⁷ . However, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine writes that she offers a “convincing impression of Donna Summer. ” ⁸ . BBC’s Lewis Dene says Beyoncé sings “lasciviously and with sexual confidence” and IGN’s Spence D. says she creates “a brief aura of auditory hypnotism” , an effect over the line “I feel sexy … ” ^9 ,10 . James Poletti from Yahoo! Music says that Beyoncé sings her “potential to transform the mud” while NME’s Rob Fitzpatrickcharacterizes his strong breathing while holding the “imaginary” sheetsbut remains a “pious young Christian woman who sings what the public wants. ” ^11 , 12 . The song is recognized by the2005 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards by receiving the songwriter of the year award – shared with Scott Storch, Robert Walker, Angela Beyincé, and Donna Summer ¹³. He has also deferred the prize for one of the most played songs, with Baby Boy and Me, Myself and I ¹⁴ .

The single works well in most Billboard rankings , including Rhythmic Top 40 and Top 40 Tracks ^15, and is also a club hit, reaching first place in Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Singles Sales and Hot Dance Music rankings. / Club Play. The single remains in the standings for 22 weeks. Naughty Girl is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America 22 October 2004 ¹⁶ .

Internationally, Naughty Girl is up to the low rankings Me Myself and I . In Oceania , the single reached sixth place in New Zealand and begins and ninth place in Australia, his highest entry ¹⁷ . The single is gold-certified by the Australian Recording Industry Association for the sale of 35,000 copies ¹⁸ In Europe, the single enjoys similar success, reaching tenth place in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands , and more usually the top twenty ¹⁷ .

List of tracks

Single Belgium ¹⁹

1. Naughty Girl : 3:28
2. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Kim ): 3:47
3. Naughty Girl (Calderone Quayle Mix): 9:38
4. I Know (Destiny’s Child) 3:32

Single CD Canada

1. Naughty Girl : 3:30
2. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Kim ): 3:50
3. Naughty Girl (Calderone Quayle Naughty Dub): 7:21

Single CD Europe ²⁰

1. Naughty Girl : 3:28
2. Naughty Girl (Calderone Mix Club Quayle Edit): 3:56
3. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Kim ): 3:47
4. Naughty Girl (Bonus Video Clip): 3:28
5. Naughty Girl (Headliners Live) (Video bonus): 3:23

Pock-It CD 3-inch limited United Kingdom, Australia ²¹ , Germany ²²

1. Naughty Girl : 3:30
2. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Flip ): 4:07

Single United States ²³

1. Naughty Girl : 3:28
2. Everything I Do (Beyoncé and Bilal): 4:21

Maxi 45s United States ²⁴

1. Naughty Girl : 3:28
2. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Kim): 3:50
3. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Flip): 4:07
4. Naughty Girl (Instrumentald): 3:30
5. Naughty Girl (DMS12 mix): 3:30
6. Naughty Girl (A Cappella): 3:26
7. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Kim A Capella): 3:48
8. Naughty Girl (with Lil ‘Flip A Capella): 4:05

Video clip

The video clip of Naughty Girl is directed by Jake Nava ⁴ , who made the first two videos of Beyoncé, Crazy in Love and Baby Boy . The video is inspired by the dance of Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in the 1953 musical All On Stage and has a style of Studio 54 ^3 , 4 . Coupled with Atlanta singer Usher who imitates Charisse and Astaire in the music video, Beyoncé dances in a sensual way and flirts with him to represent a naughty girl ^3 , 4. According to Usher, the video is a tribute to classical “ultimate artists” ; which includes dancers, singers and actors.

The video begins with Beyoncé performing a simple routine dance surrounded by a wall of mirrors then she undresses, until she is naked behind a white curtain, revealing her figure. Beyoncé then enters a club with an outfit and a different hairstyle with some of her friends; then she and Usher notice each other. The two meet on the dancefloor and dance intimately, before Beyoncé performs an elaborate dance scene with dancers. It swirls around a glass of life-size champagne and filled with bubbles (to Josephine Baker ). In the final scene, Beyoncé sits at the top of a piano, and after being raised by a gentleman,²⁵ .

The clip has received responses from music programs. In TRL of MTV , Naughty Girl begins to tenth position on 22 March 2004 and then took first place ^26 , 27 . It is removed from the “Hall of Fame” of TRL in seventh place after the countdown for fifty days ²⁸ . The video wins the Best Female Video Award at the MTV Video Music Awards 2004, the same prize that Beyoncé won for Crazy in Love the year before, and is nominated for the Best Choreography Award, the best dance video and the best photography ²⁹ .

Reversals

Naughty Girl has been picked up by some artists. Irish singer-songwriter Roesy produces a version of the song that appears on the 2004 charity album, Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 2 , with times of Toxic by Britney Spears and Like I Love You by Justin Timberlake , among others ³⁰ . Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine also features the song on their 2006 album Silent Nightclub ³¹ .

Rankings

Certifications

References

• ( In ) This article is partially or entirely from the Wikipedia article in English entitled ” Naughty Girl (Beyoncé Knowles song) ” ( see the list of authors ) .