Big Girls Don't Cry (Fergie song)
| Big Girls Don't Cry | |
|---|---|
| Fergie | |
| publication | May 22, 2007 (as single) |
| length | 4:28 (album version) 4:14 (radio edit) 9:28 (extended version) |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Stacy Ferguson, Toby Gad |
| Label | Interscope |
| album | The Dutchess |
Big Girls Do not Cry is a pop - ballad of US singer and rapper Fergie from her solo debut album The Dutchess from the year of 2006.
overview
The song was written and produced by Fergie. It was released as the fourth single on the album in the summer of 2007 and became a world hit. Big Girls Do not Cry reached in many countries, the top of the charts in Australia for nine consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the list of number-one hits in Australia (2007) and # 1 in the United States . The song was the most downloaded song in the US in 2007 with more than 3,080,000 digital copies sold. At the time, Big Girls Don't Cry was actually the most downloaded song of all time in the US. In July 2007, Fergie sang the song at the Concert for Diana and Live Earth . In late August 2007, Big Girls Don't Cry Fergie's third number one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 . The song was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards . It is included on the Dance Dance Revolution X , Singstar Pop Vol 2, and Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore 2 games .
Big Girls Don't Cry is # 89 on the Billboard Hot 100: All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs and # 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade from 2000 to 2009 .
background
After Big Girls Don't Cry was written, management decided to send a demo recording and lyrics to various music labels . After a while it arrived at Bad Boy Records , where Jordan McCoy dealt with the material. McCoy's team recorded the song as an instrumental and sent it back for Fergie to sing and then release as a single. She put the song on her debut album at the last minute.
Musical and structure
Big Girls Do not Cry is a pop - ballad , written in the G chord with the result G / B Csus2-D5. It has been compared to the exact 2006 version of Wild Orchid .
Commercial win
The song was a worldwide success. It reached number 1 on the charts in numerous countries, including Australia , Brazil , Canada , Ireland , New Zealand , Mexico , Austria , Romania , Croatia and the USA . In Brazil, Big Girls Don't Cry was the most played radio song of 2007. In the United Kingdom , Big Girls Don't Cry was more successful than her world hit London Bridge , where it was her most successful solo single with number 2 (behind Rihanna's 10th weekly number one hit and global hit Umbrella ); The single spent 38 weeks in the UK singles chart and 9 weeks in the top 10.
After switching between # 3 and # 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks, Big Girls Don't Cry rose to # 1 , becoming Fergie's third number one hit in the US and second in 2007 after her previous one Number one hit Glamorous in the spring of 2007. This made Fergie the second American solo artist to have three number one hits ( London Bridge , Glamorous and Big Girls Don't Cry ) from an album in the USA. In addition, Big Girls Don't Cry reached the top of the following charts in the USA: Billboard Pop 100, Pop 100 Airplay, Hot 100 Airplay and Hot Digital Songs. The song is one of the most successful songs of 2007 in the US, it was in the top ten of the Hot 100 for 21 consecutive weeks, 18 of them in the top 5.
Big Girls Don't Cry is the most played radio song in the US in 2007 and one of the most played ever. It is Fergie's most downloaded title in the US, with over 2,367,000 downloads, more than Fergalicious , which was downloaded over 2,315,000 times by the first week of December 2007. It ranks # 3 on the 2007 US Most Downloaded Songs and # 4 on the 2007 US Annual Chart.
Big Girls Don't Cry became Fergie's most successful single to date internationally and was even more successful than her solo debut single London Bridge . In Australia , the song debuted at number 32 and in its 13th week peaked at number 1 for nine consecutive weeks . The song was in the charts for 49 weeks and in the top ten for 32 weeks. In Australia, the single was twice platinum by ARIA , for over 140,000 sales per week. It was the most successful single of 2007 in Australia, was number 1 for 9 weeks (10 weeks in the download charts) and was the last single to be such a success.
In New Zealand , Big Girls Don't Cry was # 1 for just a week , but became the fourth highest-grossing single in New Zealand history and the most successful single of 2007 in New Zealand. It spent 38 weeks on the charts, 24 in the top ten.
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
6th (22 weeks) | 22nd |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
1 (26 weeks) | 26th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
3 (34 weeks) | 34 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
2 (38 weeks) | 38 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
1 (48 weeks) | 48 |
Music video
The music video was directed by Anthony Mandler. Filming began on March 30, 2007. The music video premiered on MTV's TRL on May 16, 2007. The music video for Big Girls Don't Cry became the most successful of 2007 on many music networks. Milo Ventimiglia plays Fergie's boyfriend.
The music video begins with Fergie getting out of a red 1969 Ford Mustang and walking into a department store where she meets her band who are rehearsing. Fergie wears sunglasses , a tight red t-shirt and black leather jeans . Finally she sings in a chair. In the next scene, Fergie is in bed with her tattooed boyfriend, both half-naked, her boyfriend ( Milo Ventimiglia ) is sleeping. Later they both go to their friend's apartment and she writes down the lyrics in the kitchen . A short time later, Fergie sees her boyfriend with several guys, one of whom is giving her boyfriend a package of drugs . She becomes aggressive and wants to leave him. In the garden she takes her clothes off the clothesline and puts them in a travel bag. At the end of the song, Fergie drives away. Her boyfriend is now alone in the apartment, sleeping, Fergie has left him.
Remix version
At the end of 2007 a remix version of Big Girls Don't Cry was produced, which contains a new 80s sound. The remix, titled Big Girls Remix , is a duet with rapper Sean Kingston , who produced a new beat that he raps over . Fergie raps a few times, but otherwise the standard song is sung.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Billboard.com ( Memento of September 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hot 100 Decade Songs.
- ↑ a b Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry Sheet Music .
- ^ Discography - Fergie - The Dutchess . ( Memento of November 3, 2006 on the Internet Archive ) Billboard.com
- ↑ polyhex.com
- ↑ a b billboard.com
- ↑ Charts.org.nz
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US