Not That Kinda Girl

"Not That Kinda Girl"

European and Australian cover
Single by JoJo
from the album JoJo
Released February 15, 2005 (2005-02-15)
(see release history)
Format CD single, digital download
Recorded Sony Music Studios
(New York City, New York)
Genre R&B
Length 3:27
Label Da Family, Blackground
Writer(s) Neely Dinkins, B. Cola Pietro, Balewa Muhammad, Sylvester Jordan, Jr.
Producer The Co-Stars, Balewa Muhammad
JoJo singles chronology
"Baby It's You"
(2004)		 "Not That Kinda Girl"
(2005)		 "Too Little Too Late"
(2006)
Music sample
Not That Kinda Girl

"Not That Kinda Girl" is a song by American singer JoJo from her self-titled debut album, JoJo (2004). It was written by Neely Dinkins, B. Cola Pietro, Balewa Muhammad, and Sylvester Jordan, Jr., and released in February 2005 as the album's third and final single. "Not That Kinda Girl" was not commercially released in the United States and therefore failed to chart there, as well as many other countries, though it did manage to reach number fifty-two in Australia and number eighty-five in Germany. It also missed the chart in the United Kingdom.

Contents

Music video

The music video was directed by the team of Eric Williams and Randy Marshall, known as Fat Cats, and was shot in Los Angeles. It premiered on MTV's Total Request Live on March 24, 2005. It spent only four days on the countdown and did not climb higher than number eight. The concept follows the topic of the song in playing up the glamorous lifestyle of a celebrity while making a statement against the shallowness of materialism. The video is known for having several cameos including Laurie Ann Gibson from MTV's Making the Band. JoJo is shown sitting in a limousine and being hounded by paparazzi. At the beginning of the video, her limo is passing 4333 W. Sunset Boulevard, the site of Solutions' Audio-Video-Speaker Repair store whose front mural was used as the cover to Elliot Smith's album Figure 8, and currently a memorial. A Maynard James Keenan lookalike also appears at 0:45 seconds into the video.

Track listings and formats

European CD single
  1. "Not That Kinda Girl"
  2. "Not That Kinda Girl" (Mavix Remix)
European CD maxi single and Australian CD single
  1. "Not That Kinda Girl" (Album Version)
  2. "Not That Kinda Girl" (Mavix Remix)
  3. "Not That Kinda Girl" (CPH Remix)
  4. "Not That Kinda Girl" (Funky Angelz Remix)
  5. "Not That Kinda Girl" (Video)

Charts

Chart (2005) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[1] 52
German Singles Chart[2] 85

Release history

Country Date Format Label
United States February 15, 2005[3] Airplay Da Family, Blackground
Australia April 25, 2005[4] CD single Universal
United Kingdom June 6, 2005[5] Mercury
Europe August 1, 2005[6] Black Ocean

References

  1. ^ "ARIA Top 100 Singles – Week Commencing 2nd May 2005" (PDF). ARIA. Pandora Archive. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20050520-0000/issue792.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-21. 
  2. ^ "JoJo – Not That Kinda Girl – Music Charts". αCharts.us. http://acharts.us/song/4632. Retrieved 2008-07-20. 
  3. ^ "Available for Airplay – 2/15/05 Mainstream". FMQB. http://fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=69239. Retrieved 2007-07-04. 
  4. ^ "JoJo / Not That Kinda Girl (CD Single) – Sanity.co.au". Sanity. http://www.sanity.com.au/product/product.asp?sku=1193217. Retrieved 2008-12-27. 
  5. ^ "Not That Kinda Girl: JoJo: Amazon.co.uk: Music". Amazon.co.uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0009JK11U. Retrieved 2008-12-27. 
  6. ^ "Not That Kinda Girl-2 Track: Jojo: Amazon.de: Musik". Amazon.de. http://www.amazon.de/dp/B000A2FHOW. Retrieved 2008-12-27. 
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