Don't call me angel

Don't call me angel
Ariana Grande , Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey
publication	13th September 2019
length	3:09
Genre (s)	Dance pop , trap
Author (s)	Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande, Savan Kotecha, Max Martin , Alma-Sofia Miettinen , Ilya Salmanzadeh
album	Charlie's Angels: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Don't Call Me Angel ( English for “ Don't call me an angel”) is a song from the collaboration of the American pop singers Miley Cyrus , Lana Del Rey and Ariana Grande . The piece was released as the soundtrack to the film 3 Angels for Charlie (Charlie's Angels) from 2019.

Creation and artwork

The song was written jointly by the three interpreters Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey and Ariana Grande and the other authors Savan Kotecha, Max Martin , Alma-Sofia Miettinen and Ilya Salmanzadeh. The instrumentation (bass, keyboard and drums) as well as the production took place under the collaboration of Martin and Salmanzadeh. Cory Bice, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Sam Holland and Jeremy Lertola acted as sound engineers during the making. Ghenea also excelled in mixing the song.

Only the names of the artists and the song titles are shown on the front cover of the single. The background is black, the artist and song information are arranged in three rows - in beige - brown font - centered. The artist names are in the first row, the song title “Don't Call Me Angel” in the second row and the film logo for Charlie's Angels in the third row .

Publication and promotion

The first release of Don't Call Me Angel took place as a single download on September 13, 2019. The single was released under the music label Republic Records , a sub-label of the Universal Music Group and was distributed by the latter. The piece was released as the lead single and soundtrack for the film 3 Angels for Charlie (Charlie's Angels) from 2019.

The first rumors of a collaboration between Cyrus, Del Rey, and Grande emerged in mid-June 2019 when Cyrus shared an Instagram post about the three of them working together. On June 22, 2019, the official GIPHY profile reported that three singers had been found for the soundtrack of Charlie's Angels . The post was deleted a short time later. On June 26, 2019 Grande invited on her Instagram profile, a snippet high, where the movie logo with the words "Uploading ..." ( English is seen for "Upload ...") and can be heard the instrumental of the song in the background . The announcement that Cyrus, Del Rey and Grande were collaborating on the soundtrack to Charlie's Angels finally came a day later on June 27, 2019. Grande confirmed on July 23, 2019 that the song would be called Don't Call Me Angel . The three singers themselves continued to advertise the piece on September 9, 2019 via their various social media channels by uploading a snippet. On September 11, 2019, a seven-second video was published in which the three walk through a foyer as black angels .

background information

Elizabeth Banks , director of the film, made the following statement about the play: “It was important to me to start Charlie's Angels with a female hymn that is driven by a strong voice but get three of the biggest voices out there? It was a dream come true. What Ariana, Miley and Lana have achieved exceeds even my high expectations. Your song is resonant and meaningful and is full of power. "

content

The lyrics to Don't Call Me Angel are in English. Literally translated into German, the title means something like “Don't call me an angel”. The music and the lyrics were written and composed jointly by Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande, Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Alma-Sofia Miettinen and Ilya Salmanzadeh. Musically, the song moves in the realm of dance pop and traps .

The song is based on two verses, a chorus, a bridge and an outro . It starts with the refrain sung by Grande and accompanied by Cyrus . This is followed by the first verse of the song, which is sung by Cyrus, as is the pre-chorus that follows. The chorus follows, which is sung by Cyrus and Grande like at the beginning. The second stanza and the subsequent pre-chorus are sung by Grande. On the following third chorus, which is sung again by Cyrus and Grange, Del Rey joins the song with the accompaniment. The third chorus is followed by a bridge sung by Del Rey. After the bridge, the chorus follows for the fourth and last time, which is performed like the previous one before the song ends with the outro. The outro is made up of parts of the chorus and is sung by Grande. The last line "Don't Call Me Angel" is sung by everyone.

"Boy, don't call me angel. You ain't got me right. Don't call me angel. You can't pay my price. Ain't from no Heaven. Yeah, you heard me right. (Yeah, you heard me) Even though you know we fly. (Though you know we) Don't call me angel. " - Refrain, original excerpt

“Boy, don't call me an angel. You did not understand me correctly. Don't call me angel You can't pay my price I don't come from heaven. Yes, you got me right. (Yes, you heard me) Even if you know we're flying. (Although you know us) Don't call me an angel. " - Refrain, translation

Music video

To Do not Call Me Angel Two official music videos were released. First, the regular Music Video celebrated YouTube premiered on September 12, 2019. In this slip Cyrus, Del Rey and Grande in the role of the angels. On the one hand they can all be seen in individual scenes, on the other hand the three can also be seen in common scenes. In the individual scenes, you see Cyrus in a boxing ring , in the middle of which is a man tied to a chair, to which Cyrus is violent on the one hand and lascivious on the other . On the one hand, Grande can be seen standing on the balcony of a villa, observing the situation and, on the other hand, she can be seen singing the song in a white angel costume. Del Rey can be seen on the one hand in a kind of temple of wellbeing, where she lolls lasciviously on the floor in a red silk kimono and on the other hand - accompanied with a knife - exploring a control room . In the common scenes you can see the three at a common feast and on the other hand disguised as black angels singing the song. At the end of the video, Elizabeth Banks (in her role as Susan Bosley from Charlie's Angels ) enters the room where the three of them are dining and addresses the following words to them: “Angels, this is not our house. Time to go to work. ”( English for“ Angel, that is not our house. Time to work. ”). The total length of the video is 3:52 minutes. Directed by Hannah Lux Davis .

On September 15, 2019, a poetry video for Don't Call Me Angel celebrated its premiere , also on YouTube . As is typical in poetry videos, it is mainly the current lines of text that can be seen in the foreground. In the background you can see scenes from the movie Charlie's Angels . Directed by Katia Temkin. To date, both music videos have over 61 million views on YouTube (as of September 2019).

Contributors

Song production Cory Bice: sound engineer Miley Cyrus : backing vocals , vocals , composer , lyricist Lana Del Rey : backing vocals, vocals, composer, lyricist Serban Ghenea: Mixing , sound engineer Ariana Grande : backing vocals, vocals, composer, lyricist John Hanes: sound engineer Sam Holland: sound engineer Savan Kotecha: composer, songwriter Jeremy Lertola: sound engineer Max Martin : bass , keyboard , composer, songwriter, drums Alma-Sofia Miettinen : composer, songwriter Ilya Salmanzadeh: bass, keyboard, composer, lyricist, drums

Artwork (music video) Brandon Bonfiglio: film producer Hannah Lux Davis : Director Katia Temkin: Director (Poetry Video) Companies Republic Records : music label Universal Music Group : Distribution

reception

Reviews

The editors of the German-language online magazine laut.de rated the collaboration as "mixed". Each singer brings her very own style , but they don't really want to mix. Grande gives the "sugar sweet diva " with angel wings, Cyrus shows her "fucked up badass side" and Del Rey is mysterious and seductive. Accordingly, the respective parts sound more like “snippets” of individual songs of their own instead of a “grandiose collective pop opus”.

Johanna Michaels from the FAZ ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) had hoped for more from the “concentrated female power” of the music video. The colorful “mélange” of witch symbolism, the fall of man and the Victoria's Secret show is overloaded and besides a few “ empowerment phrases” doesn't have much to offer feminist . Even the man who is beaten up by Cyrus sits tied up and therefore harmless on a chair and at the end gets a lap dance . Michaels can only hope that the film has more to offer here.

Charts and chart placements

Don't Call Me Angel reached position 11 in the single charts in Germany and stayed in the charts for a total of five weeks. In Austria , the single reached position twelve in four chart weeks. In Switzerland the single reached position four and stayed in the top 10 for one week and in the hit parade for six weeks. In the UK itself had to Do not Call Me Angel only Take Me Back to London ( Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy ) beaten and held for a week in the top 10 and nine weeks in the charts. In the United States , the single reached position 13 in seven chart weeks. Furthermore, Don't Call Me Angel reached the top position in Greece (Digital Singles International) and Hungary .

Cyrus reached the Billboard Hot 100 for the 51st time and the UK single charts for the 27th time, the charts in Germany and Austria for the 21st time and the Swiss hit parade for the 17th time. In Switzerland it is her third top 10 success after Wrecking Ball and Nothing Breaks Like a Heart . With Don't Call Me Angel, Del Rey reached the singles charts in Great Britain for the 25th time and the charts in Switzerland for the 18th time, the charts in Austria and the United States for the 14th time and the German single charts for the 13th time . In Switzerland it is her third top 10 success after Video Games and Summertime Sadness . Grande reached the Billboard Hot 100 for the 50th time and the British single charts for the 31st time, the German charts for the 27th time, the Swiss charts for the 23rd time and the Austrian single charts for the 19th time. Don't Call Me Angel is her eighth top 10 success in Switzerland .

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	11 (5 weeks)	5
Austria (Ö3)	12 (4 weeks)	4th
Switzerland (IFPI)	4th (6 weeks)	6th
United Kingdom (OCC)	2 (9 weeks)	9
United States (Billboard)	13 (7 weeks)	7th

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	gold	35,000
Brazil (PMB)	platinum	40,000
Canada (MC)	gold	40,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver	200,000
All in all	1 × silver 2 × gold 1 × platinum	315,000

Main article: Ariana Grande / Music Sales Awards

Web links

• Don't Call Me Angel - music video on YouTube
• Don't Call Me Angel - lyric video on YouTube

Individual evidence

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