SexyBack
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"SexyBack" is a song written and performed by the American singer Justin Timberlake and Timbaland for Timberlake's second album FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006). It was produced by Timbaland, Timberlake and Nate "Danja" Hills and released as the album's lead single on July 7, 2006. "SexyBack" is, to date, Timberlake's most successful single in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States, reaching the number one spot in all of these countries.
The song features Timbaland producing and providing additional vocals [1].
"SexyBack" was the second-longest-running number one single of 2006 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, staying seven weeks at the top.
Song information
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The track is produced and co-written by Timbaland and Nate Hills. The vocals on the track vary from those on Timberlake's earlier works.
A short clip of "SexyBack" was made available on the Internet on June 21, 2006. The full song was released for online play on July 6, 2006, and made available for listening on Justin Timberlake's official MySpace page [2].
Newsday named "SexyBack" song of the week and called it "a stunner, a bold, new mix of Basement Jaxx-styled dance music and Timbaland's spacey hip-hop."[3]
Music video
The music video for "SexyBack" was shot in a luxury building in Barcelona, and features the Spanish actress Elena Anaya (from the 2001 film Sex and Lucía).
Originally, director Michael Haussman wanted to feature French actress Eva Green, but she declined twice. [citation needed]
The music video for the song is said to be inspired by the video for Madonna's "Take a Bow", (and in fact contains much similar imagery) also directed by Haussman. Timberlake said that he liked the dark visual that Madonna showed on her video, and that's why he was inspired by her. The video was first shown on MTV's Making the Video on July 25. The video was placed at #4 of the year on the VH1 Top 40 Music Videos of the Year.
Trivia
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- Weebl and Bob creator Jonti Picking recently devoted an episode of his cartoon to a parody of this song, entitled "PastryBack".[1]
- The lyrics "Dirty babe, you see these shackles, baby I’m your slave" contain references to both Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears songs (Dirrty and I'm a Slave 4 You) both of who were in the Mickey Mouse Club with Timberlake.
- The saying "bringing SexyBack" became somewhat of a catchphrase after the song came out. It was heavily used at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. Al Gore, for example, said he wouldn't have come to the VMA's at first but then he heard that "Justin Timberlake is bringing SexyBack, so here I am". Lil Kim and Jared Leto also said they were "bringing SexyBack" during the show. Also, while hyping his debut on ECW, professional wrestler Shannon Moore made a reference to the song when he quoted "I'm the Prince of Punk and I'm bringing SexyBack!"[4]
- The song became so popular that many parodies were made, such as "Paxilback" by The Gray Kid, "ChubbyBack" by a local DJ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "DavidBack" by Luke Wojtulewicz and Marcin Michalski, and a parody done by Gary Dell'Abate. The T Team also produced a song entitled "Sexy Bach", which was written from the perspective of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
- Underground musician Sam Scumaci released a drunken cover of "SexyBack" on October 31, 2006 as a Halloween treat for his fans over on his MySpace. The song is currently getting airplay on some stations.
- On the September 12, 2006 episode of TRL, Justin commented on the catchphrase "bringing SexyBack", saying he somewhat regrets writing it now, since he hears it everywhere, similar to Destiny's Child's song "Bootylicious" a few years ago. He also commented on the heavy use of it at the VMA's saying some of the people used the phrase out of context, but didn't single them out. VJ Damien Fahey said the whole album was kind of associated with the phrase now, asking him if that was for better or worse, and Timberlake overall said that it was for the better.
- "SexyBack" could be counted as Timberlake's second number one in the United Kingdom, since he did the guest vocals on Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is the Love?".
- On Miami's NBC6 news station, meteorologist Trina Robinson was dancing to "SexyBack", unknown to her that the cameras were rolling. The sports reporter Joe Rose was dancing as well, but to Black Eyed Peas' "Let's Get It Started". This has created an Internet phenomenon in the Miami-Dade County area [5]. The videos were later revealed as being stunt promos for the station, and caused the viewers to feel awkward and embarrassed for the dancing newsreaders, especially when the female anchor referred to the dancing weather woman, who is an African-American, as "sexy black" and not "sexy back".
- The internet sketch comedy show Moron Life parodied "SexyBack", turning it into "Britany Back".
- MADtv parodied the song, with Rocky Balboa and Clubber Lang. The song was entitled "Rocky Back".
- On the new single by Timbaland "Give It to Me" featuring Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado, he comments "if sexy never left then why's everybody on my shit, don't hate on me just because you didn't come up with it, yeah, WORD"
- British singers Lil' Chris and Corinne Bailey Rae covered the song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.
- Rock Plaza Central, an indie rock band favored by Pitchfork Media, gained attention for their radically different cover of the song, with brass-and-banjo roots-rock stylings.[6]
First play controversy
The first exclusive play in the UK for "SexyBack" took place on The Scott Mills Show, although Timberlake's record label had given the rights to Chris Moyles to play it the next day. Other stations immediately followed suit.
Scott Mills broke another record label embargo for "Rudebox" by Robbie Williams in a similar fashion on July 7, 2006.
iTunes
When the album was first released on iTunes, the clean version of "SexyBack" contained the word "fuck". iTunes recognized the problem and re-released the track with the word edited out. They offered one free music download for anyone who purchased the "clean" version of the song.
Achievements
According to Billboard, "SexyBack" is currently the second-highest selling single in a week during 2006, behind only "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean, which set the record in June. "Hips Don't Lie" sold 267,000 digital downloads, while "SexyBack" sold 250,000 digital downloads. So far, "SexyBack" has stayed at number one in the United States for seven weeks and has sold in excess of 1,000,000 digital downloads since release.
This song made the third biggest jump to number one in Billboard Hot 100 history. Climbing 30 spots from #31 landing it at the summit of the chart on September 9, 2006.
"SexyBack" ended 2006 as the 10th best selling single of the year in the UK.
"SexyBack" ended 2006 as the 19th most played single of the year in Latin America where it peak at #4, givin Justin Timberlake most succesfull single and the number 28 in the Artist Chart of the Year.
Versions
- Original – 4:02
- Clean – 4:02
- Instrumental – 4:02
- Extended Mix (feat. Cory Gunz) – 4:09
- Mixshow Edit (feat. Cory Gunz) – 2:55
- Instrumental (feat. Cory Gunz)
- Remix Feat. The Clipse
- Remix Feat. Papoose
- Linus Loves Remix - 6:18
- Tom Novy Ibiza Dub - 7:47
- Dean Coleman Silent Sound Beat Down - 6:23
- Dean Coleman Xtra Funk Mix
- Dean Coleman Vocal Mix
- Armand Radio Mix
- Armand's Mix - 7:12
- Armand's Dub - 6:15
- DJ Sneak's Sexy Main Mix - 6:59
- Sneak Beats Dub - 5:23
- Poker Face House Radio Edit
- Poker Face House Remix
- Poker Face Housse Remix Instrumental
- Solar City & Amokk Radio Edit
- Solar City & Amokk Big Room Mix
- Solar City & Amokk Mixshow
- DJ Amokk Remix
- Peter Rauhofer's Reconstruction Mix
- Richard Vission's Back Mix
- Eddie Baez Mix
- Cutmore's Sexy House Vocal
- Twisted Dee's Erotica Mix
- DJ Anthony Lago's Misbehaving Radio Mix
- The Beat Worx Remix
- DJ A2B Funkymix
- DJ Levan Break-Dance Remix
- DJ Chaos Sexybrokeback Remix
- DJ AK47's Love Song Makes Justin's Dick Throb Mix)
- DJ Sveshnikov Club Mix
- DJ David Wilson Extended Miami Bass Remix
- FN Private Lala Radio Mix
- FND Private LaLa Mix
- LanCifer Famas BringBackSexy Radio Edit
- LanCifer Famas BringBackSexy Club Mix
- Bent Castaneda's SexyBackRub Remix
- The Popstar's Sexy Mix
- Pugh Radio Mix
- Tuff Tiffyz Remix
- Maurice Joushua Club Mix
- Jamie Dunn Remix
- Ultimix Remix
- John Feel Good Remix
- Weebl and Bob's Pastry Back
Charts
| Chart | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Sales | ? |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks | 18 |
| U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 | 9 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 2 |
| Billboard European Hot 100 Singles | 1 |
| Billboard Euro Digital Tracks | 2 |
| Ibero-America Top 100 | 3 |
| Top Latino(Latin American Top 40 Airplay) | 4 |
| Australian ARIA Top 20 Dance Chart | 1 |
| Australian ARIA Top 40 Digital Track Chart | 1 |
| Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles[7] | 1 |
| Brazilian Hot 100 Singles | 1 |
| Brazilian Top 40 Dance Traxx | 1 |
| Canadian BDS Airplay Chart | 3 |
| Canadian Dance Chart | 1 |
| Colombian Top 100 | 20 |
| Danish Dancechart | 1 |
| Finnish Dance Chart | 1 |
| German Singles Chart | 1 |
| Hungarian Singles Chart | 3 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 1 |
| Latvian Airplay Top | 1 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Top 40 Singles | 1 |
| Singapore Top 20 | 1 |
| UK Download Chart | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 1 |
| UK Top 40 RnB Singles Chart | 1 |
| United World Chart | 1 |
| Belgium Top 30 Dance | 2 |
| Polish Hot Lista | 2 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 2 |
| Turkish Singles Chart | 2 |
| Finnish Singles Chart | 3 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 3 |
| Belgium Top 50 Singles | 4 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 4 |
| Austrian Top 75 Single | 5 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 5 |
| Greek Singles Chart Top 50 | 10 |
| Mexican Top 100 Airplay | 24 |
| Mexican Digital Sales Chart | 11 |
| French Singles Chart | 14 |
| Romanian Top 100 | 4 |
| Polish National Top 50 | 15 |
| Russian TopHit 100 | 15 |
| Czech Airplay Chart | 12 |
| Bulgarian Airplay Chart | 2 |
References
- ^ http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS231584-01B-BIG.jpg Proof of official featured role credit
- ^ http://www.myspace.com/justintimberlake
- ^ Gamboa, Glenn Newsday Song that's most likely gonna make me jump July 25, 2006
- ^ Shannon Moore clip from the September 5, 2006 episode of ECW
- ^ http://www.nbc6.net/video/9900646/index.html Trina Robinson dancing "SexyBack"
- ^ Wheeler, Brad (2007-01-30). "Too sexy for their suits". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2007-01-30.
- ^ "Australian Top 50 Singles Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved November 5.
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- Number-one singles in Australia
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- Songs with sexual themes