Thong Song
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| "Thong Song" | ||
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| Single by Sisqó | ||
| from the album Unleash the Dragon | ||
| Released | February 15, 2000 | |
| Format | compact disc, vinyl record | |
| Recorded | Fall 1999 | |
| Genre | R&B/pop/hip-hop | |
| Length | 4:12 | |
| Label | Def Soul 562599 |
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| Writer(s) | Mark Andrews Tim Kelley Bob Robinson Desmond Child Robi Rosa |
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| Producer(s) | Sisqó Tim Kelly Bob Robinson |
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| Chart positions | ||
| Sisqó singles chronology | ||
| "Got to Get It" (1999) |
"Thong Song" (2000) |
"What These Bitches Want" (with DMX) (2000) |
"Thong Song" is a 2000 song recorded by Sisqó of Dru Hill for the Def Soul label. The song was issued as the second single from Sisqó's Unleash the Dragon LP in February 2000, and was its second biggest hit.
The record is a novelty song celebrating, in a playful way, women who wear thong underwear and bikinis. The song's chorus was inspired by the Dragnet theme song, with a re-occurring hook of "thong-th-thong-thong-thong!"
"Thong Song" was a runaway hit; it reached #3 on the US pop charts, and made Sisqó one of the biggest stars in R&B music for the year 2000. It became the de-facto anthem of 2000 Spring Break, and was omnipresent for most of the spring of 2000. The song's music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, was heavily edited to conform to broadcast standards, but was still a popular fixture on MTV and BET. The success of "Thong Song" and its #1 pop hit follow-up, "Incomplete", propelled Unleash the Dragon to a selling-status of over four million copies.
The song was written by Sisqó and co-producers Tim Kelley and Bob Robinson. Songwriters Desmond Child and Robi Draco Rosa receive songwriting credit because of the interpolation of part of their composition, Ricky Martin's "Livin' la Vida Loca", in the song's lyrics. "Thong Song" is based around a violin melody, similar to that in The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby".
A remix, "Thong Song Uncensored", features a guest rap from Foxy Brown, and is included on the soundtrack LP for the 2000 Eddie Murphy film Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. A second, more urban-themed, video was shot for the remix by Little X. Another rap response to the hit is Trina's "Tongue Song," which explicitly details "what you're supposed to do with what's inside the thong," and is about oral sex.
It has been parodied on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, MadTV as "Wrong Song", and Crisqo as "Bong Song". The Late Night version first started off as a supposed off-Broadway musical called The Song of Thong where Sisqo dances around a female mannequin wearing a thong and sings the Thong Song for 3 hours. Then, it appeared again as remixed Christmas version called "The Christmas Thong," where it was the same gag as before, but the female mannequin wears a Santa cap and a Christmas-themed thong. The hook appears as the closing line to a Saturday Night Live commercial parody advertising the fictitious "Huggies Thong," in which fashion-conscious mothers dress their babies in thong-style diapers.
David Banner references the song in his "Like A Pimp," with the line "Sisqó made you show your thong."
Also referenced by G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks from his song "Porno Star" featuring 50 Cent with the line "Something like a princess gone wrong, Used to be a ballerina, Now she performs to The Thong Song."
| Preceded by "Poison" by Bardot |
RIANZ (New Zealand) number one single 28 May 2000 |
Succeeded by "Oops I Did It Again" by Britney Spears |
