SexyBack
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| "SexyBack" | ||
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| Single by Justin Timberlake | ||
| from the album FutureSex/LoveSounds | ||
| Released | July 7, 2006 (U.S.) August 2006 (U.K.) |
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| Format | Digital download CD single |
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| Genre | Pop/Hip-hop | |
| Length | 4:03 | |
| Label | Jive | |
| Writer(s) | Justin Timberlake, Tim Mosley, Nate Hills | |
| Producer(s) | Timbaland, Danja | |
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| Justin Timberlake singles chronology | ||
| "Signs" (2005) |
"SexyBack" (2006) |
"My Love" (2006) |
| Timbaland singles chronology | ||
| "Promiscuous" (2006) |
"SexyBack" (2006) |
"My Love" (2006) |
"SexyBack" is a pop-hip hop song written and performed by the American singers Justin Timberlake and Timbaland for Timberlake's sophomore album FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006). It was produced by Timbaland and Danja and released as the album's first 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].
As of October 21, "SexyBack" is the longest-running number one single of 2006 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, staying seven weeks at the top [2].
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[edit] Song information
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; Timberlake's voice has been altered here through simply adding distortion to the vocals. Timbaland also does vocals in the background, and the music video is credited to Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland.
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 [3].
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."[4]
[edit] Music video
The music video for "SexyBack" was shot in a luxury building of Barcelona, Spain, 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.
[edit] Trivia
- Weebl and Bob creator Jonti Picking recently devoted an episode of his famous cartoon to a parody of this song, entitled "PastryBack"[1]
- The saying "bringing SexyBack" has become somewhat of a catchphrase since 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". 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!" [5]
- The song became so popular that many parodies were made, such as "Paxilback" by The Gray Kid, "ChubbyBack" by a local DJ in Kansas City, Missouri, "DavidBack" by Luke Wojtulewicz and Marcin Michalski, and a parody done by Gary Dell'Abate.
- On the September 12th 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 [6]. 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".
- On iTunes, when people download the "Clean version" of SexyBack the curse word is still mentioned in the song.
[edit] 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.
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 at September 9, 2006.
[edit] Versions
- Original – 4:02
- Clean – 4:02
- Instrumental – 4:02
- Extended Mix (feat. Cory Gunz) – 4:09
- Mixshow Edit (feat. Cory Gunz) – 2:55
- Linus Loves Remix - 6:18
- Pokerface Remix - 6:34
- Tom Novy Ibiza Dub - 7:47
- Dean Coleman Silent Sound Beat Down - 6:23
- Sneak Beats Dub - 5:23
- Armand's Mix - 7:12
- Armand's Dub - 6:15
- DJ Sneak's Sexy Main Mix - 6:59
- DJ Corey Harrisons Mix - 5:34
- Sexy promiscuous back - mash up featuring Timbaland and Nelly Furtado*DJ Corey Harrisons Mix - 7:46
- Lecity breakbeat remix - 3:49
Please note Richard Vission's mix and Sexy promiscuous back are not official mix. They ARE a bootleg.
[edit] Charts
| Chart | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 | 18 |
| Billboard European Hot 100 Singles | 1 |
| Billboard Euro Digital Tracks | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Single Sales | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs | 11 |
| 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 Nielsen SoundScan Digital Songs | 1 |
| Danish Dancechart | 1 |
| Finnish Dance Chart | 1 |
| German Singles Chart | 1 |
| 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 |
| Canadian BDS Airplay | 3 |
| 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 Digital Sales Chart | 11 |
| French Singles Chart | 14 |
| Romanian Top 100 | 14 |
| Polish National Top 50 | 15 |
| Russian TopHit 100 | 15 |
| Mexican Top 100 Airplay | 24 |
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- ^ http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS231584-01B-BIG.jpg Proof of official featured role credit
- ^ http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003252478 Billboard.com article on Timberlake
- ^ http://www.myspace.com/justintimberlake
- ^ Gamboa, Glenn Newsday Song of the Week 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"
- ^ Australian Top 50 Singles Chart. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved on November 5, 2006.
[edit] External links
Discography · Grammy Awards · Music videos · 'N Sync
Albums: Justified (2002) · FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)
Singles: "Like I Love You" · "Cry Me a River" · "Rock Your Body" · "Señorita" · "I'm Lovin' It" · "SexyBack" · "My Love"
Guest singles: "Where Is the Love?" · "Work It" · "Signs"
Categories: Articles with unsourced statements | 2006 singles | Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles | Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one singles | Number-one singles in the United Kingdom | Number-one singles in Australia | Number-one singles in Ireland | Number-one singles in Germany | Number-one singles in New Zealand | Justin Timberlake songs
