How to Touch a Girl
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| Single by JoJo from the album The High Road |
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| Released | November 14, 2006 | ||||
| Format | Digital download, CD single | ||||
| Recorded | Cryptic Studios (Los Angeles, California) |
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| Genre | Pop, R&B, soul | ||||
| Length | 4:29 | ||||
| Label | Blackground/Universal | ||||
| Writer(s) | Billy Steinberg, Josh Alexander, Joanna "JoJo" Levesque | ||||
| Producer | Billy Steinberg, Josh Alexander | ||||
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"How to Touch a Girl" is a pop–R&B–soul song written by Billy Steinberg, Josh Alexander, and Joanna "JoJo" Levesque for JoJo's second studio album The High Road (2006). It was co-produced by Billy Steinberg and Josh Alexander. "How to Touch a Girl" is the second single from the album. "How to Touch a Girl" was released to Top 40 radio in December 2006. The release of "How to Touch a Girl" marks the first time a single with a writing credit from JoJo was eligible to chart.
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[edit] Critical reception
The song was well received by critics. Chuck Taylor of Billboard said that "'How to Touch a Girl' again casts the youngster with a crafty melody, albeit strikingly similar in structure to the previous hit. Despite the bizarre, almost perverse title, this track could propel the burgeoning talent all the way." In a review of The High Road, Bill Lamb called the song "a near perfect piece of teen pop".[1] Even though How To Touch A Girl was never officially released in the UK, it still got some airplay, a small appearance in the charts and some promotion even though JoJo was supposed to be promoting Anything.
[edit] Controversy over the song's meaning
Due to the song's suggestive title, it has led many to believe that the song has sexual content. However many fans have come to consensus that in fact it is metaphor for touching a girl's heart and not the other obvious sexual meaning. This is not the first time JoJo has used sexual imagery in the title of her songs, with one of her songs entitled "The Way You Do Me". The song contains an uncredited sample from Whitney Houston's 1985 classic hit "Saving All My Love for You".
[edit] Track listing
- American promo CD single
- "How to Touch a Girl" (Radio Edit) – 4:02
- "How to Touch a Girl" (Instrumental) – 4:30
- "How to Touch a Girl" (Call Out Hook) – 0:42
[edit] Music video
The music video, directed by Syndrome, premiered on TRL on December 7, 2006. The video shows clips of JoJo sitting in a room filled with old vinyl records, sitting on a staircase, and singing on a rooftop at sunset. There are also scenes of her in an apartment in a green dress. Special effects allow JoJo to be seen multiple times in the same shot. There is also a storyline involving a young couple on a date. Near the end of the video, a boy meets JoJo in her room with the albums. He is seemingly her boyfriend, and the two embrace.
[edit] Chart performance
Although the song appeared within the lower regions of the pop charts, it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming JoJo's second single to do so, the first being "Not That Kinda Girl". The single did, however, peak at number four on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (which is equivalent to number 104 if the Billboard Hot 100 went beyond 100 spots) and number seventy-six on the Billboard Pop 100. "How to Touch a Girl" also entered the top 200 in the UK charts.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| Portuguese Singles Chart | 15 |
| Singaporean Airplay Chart[2] | 15 |
| U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 76 |
[edit] References
- ^ Lamb, Bill. "Review of JoJo's Second Album, The High Road". About.com. Retrieved January 30, 2007.
- ^ Singapore Airplay Chart
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