Naughty Girl (Beyoncé song)

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"Naughty Girl"

Single by Beyoncé
from the album Dangerously in Love
Released	2004
Format	CD single, 12" single
Genre	pop, R&B
Length	3:28
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Beyoncé Knowles, Scott Storch, Robert Waller, Angela Beyince, Donna Summer, Peter Belotte, Giorgio Moroder
Producer(s)	Beyoncé Knowles, Scott Storch
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
Chart positions
#2 (Canada) #3 (U.S.) #6 (New Zealand) #9 (Australia) #10 (UK)
Beyoncé singles chronology
"Me, Myself and I" (2004)	"Naughty Girl" (2004)	"Check on It" (2005)

"Naughty Girl" is an R&B song performed by Beyoncé. It was released as the fourth single from her debut solo album Dangerously in Love. It was also recognized at the ASCAP awards by receiving the Songwriter of the Year sharing with Scott Storch, Robert Walker, Angela Beyince and Donna Summer, and Most Performed Songs award in 2005.

The single was co-written by Beyoncé, Scott Storch, Robert Waller, and Angela Beyince The song samples the song "Love to Love You Baby" originally performed by Donna Summer and written by Donna Summer, Peter Belotte, and Giorgio Moroder. "Naughty Girl" was originally supposed to be the first single from Beyoncé's first album, Dangerously In Love. The single was deemed not to have potential to fail, but at the same time, not to become a big hit. The single was pushed back when "Crazy In Love" was chosen as the first single. Over a Middle-East flavoured beat, Beyoncé declares that she's feeling sexy and wants to hear her name spoken by her lover; she then intimates her carnal desires as she offers the suggestion, "tonight I’ll be your naughty girl".

Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this swingin' song on their 2006 album, "Silent Nightclub".

1 Chart performance
2 Music video
3 Charts
4 Official remixes/versions list

[edit] Chart performance

As the fourth single released from Dangerously In Love, expectations were lowered on "Naughty Girl", and the single didn’t perform as well on the charts. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, failing to reach number one like "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". It also failed to reach the top two on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks as the previous three singles had done, and instead peaked at number eight.

The song was also a sales hit (due to the release of the song’s CD single), and reached number one on both Hot 100 Singles Sales and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales. Digitally speaking, "Naughty Girl" was also a hit on Hot Digital Tracks and peaked at number four, while a remix of the song featuring Lil' Flip also managed to chart. At the time, digital downloads did not count towards the Hot 100. Nevertheless, Beyoncé was awarded a gold digital single for sales of over 200,000 digital downloads.

[edit] Music video

Beyoncé and Usher in "Naughty Girl"

The video for this song was directed by Jake Nava, who had risen to popularity after directing Beyoncé's first two videos, "Crazy In Love" and "Baby Boy". This video harks back to the days of glamorous Hollywood as Beyoncé and the cast of the video are dressed in old fashioned, glamorous clothing and hairstyles. As the title of the song suggest, Beyoncé plays the role of the naughty girl in several sexy sequences, as she can be seen lying in an over-sized champagne glass, and dancing seductively with Usher.

The video begins with Beyoncé performing a simple dance routine surrounded by a wall of mirrors and then behind a white curtain, revealing only her silhouette. We then see Beyoncé enter the club with a different outfit and hairstyle, and with a few of her girlfriends; she and Usher notice each other. The two meet on the dancefloor and dance intimately together, before Beyoncé performs an elaborate dance scene with female backing dancers. After this Beyoncé sings a sample of Donna Summer's classic hit "Love to Love You Baby" as she swirls around in a larger than life champagne glass filled with bubbles. In the final scene Beyoncé has another new look as sits atop a piano, and after being lifted down by a gentleman she begins to dance and pose as confetti falls everywhere. The music video was very popular; on MTV's Total Request Live the video retired to TRL's "Hall of Fame" after being on the top-ten TRL chart for fifty days, which was the maximum period.

[edit] Charts

^{[1] [2]}Chart (2004)^{[3] [4]}	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	3
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	8
Polish Singles Chart	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Tracks	4
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	1
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	1
The Official UK Singles Chart	10
Irish Singles Chart	14
Australian Singles Chart	9
Dutch Singles Chart	10

Chart (2004)	Peak position
New Zealand Singles Chart	6
German Singles Chart	16
French Singles Chart	18
Austrian Singles Chart	29
Swiss Singles Chart	18
Japanese Singles Chart	40
United World Tracks Chart	6
World Airplay Chart (Independent Research)	4
World Physical Sales Chart	3
Europe Official Singles Chart	8