Wild Ones (album)

Wild Ones
Studio album by Flo Rida
Released	July 3, 2012 (2012-07-03)
Recorded	2011–12 at Atlantic Records Studios (Los Angeles, California), Circle House Studios (Miami, Florida), Eightysevenfourteen Studios (Los Angeles, California), Glass Cuts Studio, MixStar Studios (Virginia Beach, Virginia), and Side 3 Studios (Denver, Colorado)
Genre	Hip house, dance-pop
Length	34:46
Label	Poe Boy, Atlantic
Producer	Dr. Luke, Cirkut, soFLY & Nius, DJ Frank E, Glass, Axwell, The Futuristics, Axwell
Flo Rida chronology
Good Feeling (2012) Wild Ones (2012) The Perfect 10 (2014)
Singles from Wild Ones
"Good Feeling" Released: August 29, 2011 (2011-08-29) "Wild Ones" Released: December 19, 2011 (2011-12-19) "Whistle" Released: April 24, 2012 (2012-04-24) "I Cry" Released: September 18, 2012 (2012-09-18) "Sweet Spot" Released: March 13, 2013 (2013-03-13) "Let It Roll" Released: March 22, 2013 (2013-03-22)

Wild Ones is the fourth studio album by American rapper Flo Rida. It was released on July 3, 2012.^[1] Wild Ones had four Top 10 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, when the singles, "Good Feeling", "Wild Ones", "Whistle", and "I Cry" charted, at 3, 5, 1, and 6 respectively.

Singles

On August 21, 2011, Flo Rida released the first single from the album, titled "Good Feeling", that samples Etta James' song "Something's Got a Hold on Me".^[2] Produced by Dr. Luke & Cirkut, the song was inspired by "Levels" by Avicii, which also contains the Etta James sample. The song was very successful all across the world, peaking at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and being certified 3× Platinum for shipping around two million copies in the US alone.^[3][4] The album's title track was released as the second single on December 19, 2011, and features Australian singer-songwriter Sia Furler as a vocalist. The third single "Whistle", produced by DJ Frank E, was first played on April 16, 2012, on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney radio station 2Day FM. The single reached a peak at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming very successful around the world. Two promotional singles were released before the album's release, "Hey Jasmin" was released on June 6, 2012 with an accompanying music video and "Let it Roll" was released digitally on June 19, 2012. The fourth single, "I Cry", was inspired by "Cry (Just a Little)" by Bingo Players, which samples "Piano In The Dark" by Brenda Russell. The fifth single is "Sweet Spot", and the sixth single is "Let It Roll".

Reception

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number fourteen on the US Billboard 200 chart selling 31,000 copies in its first week.^[5] In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,300 copies.^[6] As of July 26, 2012, the album has sold 27,000 copies in Canada.^[7]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[8]
Entertainment Weekly	C–[9]
The Independent	[10]
Los Angeles Times	[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]

Upon release, Wild Ones received mixed reviews from music critics.^[13] At Metacritic, which assigns an average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on ten reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[13] Although he perceived the album's creative scope to be limited, David Jeffries of Allmusic called Wild Ones "gimmicky, lightweight, and best taken in small chunks, but get a glitter-friendly crowd together and it gets the party started, succeeding at its one and only goal".^[8] He also observed the album's material to be largely "hot, infectious fluff", but felt that the album "would be dragged down by any tacked-on sense of purpose, and thinking of Flo Rida as equal parts thrill seeker and hitmaker is easy".^[8] However, Rolling Stone's Jody Rosen felt the album's production to be too inconsistent, observing that the album's "inhumanly supersized... dance beats" were either "genius" or "insipid", also writing that Flo Rida "[is] content to surrender center-stage on his producers".^[12]

Complex called the album cover the sixth worst cover of 2012.^[14]

Track listing

Notes^[19]

• "Let It Roll" contains elements of "Come On (Part I)", as performed by Freddie King and written by Earl King.
• "I Cry" contains elements of "Piano in the Dark", as performed by Brenda Russell and written by Scott Cutler, Russell and Jeff Hull.
• "Good Feeling" contains elements of "Something's Got a Hold on Me", as performed by Etta James and written by Etta James, Leroy Kirkland, and Pearl Woods.
• "Run" contains elements of "Run to You", as performed by Bryan Adams and written by Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams, and it also contains a small element of Party Rock Anthem, as performed by the electropop group LMFAO.
• "In My Mind, Part 2" contains elements of the Axwell mix of "In My Mind", as performed by Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl featuring Georgi Kay.

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

• Official website
• Wild Ones at Metacritic
• Wild ones album artwork