Bootylicious
| Bootylicious | |
|---|---|
| Destiny's Child | |
| publication | May 20, 2001 |
| length | 3:27 |
| Genre (s) | Contemporary R&B , hip-hop , soul |
| text | Beyoncé Knowles , Rob Fusari, Falonte Moore, Stevie Nicks |
| music | Beyoncé Knowles, Rob Fusari, Falonte Moore |
| album | Survivor |
Bootylicious is a song by American Contemporary R & B - girl group Destiny's Child . The song was written and produced by Rob Fusari, Falonte Moore and front woman Beyoncé Knowles for the group's third album, Survivor . The song features a famous guitar riff from Stevie Nicks ' song Edge of Seventeen from 1981.
The song was released in the United States on May 21, 2001 as the second single from the album and became the girl group's fourth number one hit in the United States. The song also reached the top 5 in Australia , Canada and the United Kingdom .
Background and composition
Bootylicious was written and produced by Beyoncé Knowles , Rob Fusari and Falonte Moore, and the song was recorded at Sugarhill Studios in Houston and Sound on Sound Studios in New York City . Knowles got the inspiration to write Bootylicious after hearing the guitar riff on Stevie Nick's song Edge of Seventeen on a flight to Japan , reminding Knowles of being "a mature and sexual woman." Kelly Rowland stated that Bootylicious is the most irritating Destiny's Child song for her after listening to the song over and over again.
Bootylicious is a contemporary R&B song with hip hop influences. Destiny's Childs vocal range ranges from G 3 to B 5 .
Authorship question
On February 27, 2010, Rob Fusari gave an interview in Billboard magazine about his career and discussed the song and the authorship of the song. In the interview, he explained that he had the idea for the song all by himself and that he originally wanted a different guitar riff. However, he couldn't find a suitable guitar riff and thought of Stevie Nicks' CD. He was unhappy when he heard that Beyoncé is named as the originator of Bootylicious . According to Fusari, Mathew Knowles told him, "People don't want to hear about Rob Fusari ... that doesn't sell records."
Ms. Knowles wanted to make Stevie Nicks the creator as well, because she used her guitar riff and contacted her if she could use her guitar riff. Fusari wanted to play the riff himself in order to be the author of the song and to get more rights to the song. There was later an argument between Fusari and Nicks, after all Fusari was allowed to play the guitar for the recording of the song and Nicks had an appearance in the music video for Bootylicious . Beyoncé made Fusari's involvement in the song clear in many interviews. Beyoncé never wanted to take the authorship of Bootylicious away from anyone else . Beyoncé always said that the music was sent to Bootylicious and she then wrote the lyrics.
Music video
The music video Bootylicious was filmed by Matthew Rolston and features a Destiny's Child appearance performing dances from Michael Jackson's famous performance of Motown's Billie Jean 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever . During the music video, the group is showing dances from many other Jackson videos, including Thriller , Beat it , Bad, and The Way You Make Me Feel .
While the group is dancing, the members can be seen in many different outfits. These scenes are superimposed with scenes where the group dances with men in a sexually explicit manner. Stevie Nicks makes a cameo at the beginning of the music video, as does Solange Knowles , Beyoncé's sister.
The group also released the music video on some deluxe editions of their albums.
Appearances
Destiny's Child opened the first BET Awards with Bootylicious . They sang the song with Michael Jackson at his Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special concerts. According to the group, Michael loved the song so much that he always wanted to sing and dance along with it.
Cultural
The content of the song was controversial at a time when music was specifically concerned with female sexuality in the late 90s. Destiny's Child was known for paying attention to the image of women, the songs dealt with topics related to female sexuality. In music videos, the group wore more makeup, tailored clothes, they danced erotically. Seductive dances like lap dances were standard at Destiny's Child in their music videos and music. The songs have sexual themes, so their videos have been made even more sexual to match the content of the song. The use of sexual themes turned out to be a great success for Destiny's Child, they deliberately used sexualized images of women as a form of marketing. Destiny's Child relied on this method with the release of Bootylicious, among other things . Even Beyoncé's success in her solo career is clearly dominated by their sexuality.
The group also danced the song with Michael Jackson , after which the music video was released on MTV's Making the Video, where the group announced that they are dedicating the song and music video to Michael Jackson.
The song made the term Bootylicious popular worldwide, a combination of “booty” (actually booty, here in slang for buttocks or buttocks or sexual contact) and “delicious”. Because of the song's success, the media has since labeled female Latin or African-American personalities who openly show their sexuality, such as Jennifer Lopez , Shakira and later Beyoncé, as Bootylicious . Black women with big butts and hips in particular are referred to as Bootylicious in the media . The term Bootylicious is now standard in the English language and refers to the features mentioned.
Awards
In September 2011, VH1 Bootylicious placed 19th in the “100 best songs of the 2000s decade”.
Charts
Bootylicious debuted at number 66 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on June 9, 2001 and peaked at number 1 nine weeks later, becoming the girl group's fourth number one hit in the United States, however the song only stayed on for a short 17 weeks overall US charts. The song also became Destiny's Childs fifth consecutive number one hit on the American Hot 100 Airplay radio charts, but Mariah Carey's loverboy kept the song off the top for several weeks on the American Hot 100 Singles Sales chart.
In the UK, Bootylicious was released on July 23, 2001 and debuted right at number 2 on the UK charts behind Atomic Kittens Eternal Flame . In the same week, the album Survivor sold again 169,000 copies and made it to the top of the British album charts.
| Chart (2001) | Top ranking |
|---|---|
 Austria
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23 |
 Germany
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16 |
 Switzerland
|
11 |
 United Kingdom
|
2 |
 United States
|
1 |
Cover versions
- Keane Medley: Bootylicious / Dirrty ( Christina Aguilera )
- 2010: Glee Cast
Individual evidence
- ^ "Edge of Seventeen," Stevie Nicks
- ↑ ContactMusic.com 2008
- ^ Destiny's Child - Bootylicious Sheet Music . Musicnotes.com. EMI Music Publishing . Retrieved March 29, 2011.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ BET Networks PR Website - News Releases . Bet.mediaroom.com. June 22, 2001. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
- ↑ The Center for Parent / Youth Understanding - Destiny's Child: Pop Music Pied Pipers ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/booty
- ^ Regreso al Pasado: Duke Nukem - Artículo en MERISTATION . Meristation.com. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
- ↑ bootylicious accepted by Oxford English Dictionary
- ↑ Kyle Anderson: U2, Rihanna, Amy Winehouse, Foo Fighters fill out VH1's' 100 Greatest Songs of the '00s' . In: Entertainment Weekly . Time Inc. . September 29, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
