Pretty Baby (Vanessa Carlton song)
| "Pretty Baby" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by Vanessa Carlton | ||||
| from the album Be Not Nobody | ||||
| B-side | "Twilight" | |||
| Released | February 11, 2003 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2001 | |||
| Genre | Pop, pop rock | |||
| Length |
3:55 (Album Version) 4:08 (Single Version) | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Vanessa Carlton | |||
| Producer(s) | Ron Fair | |||
| Vanessa Carlton singles chronology | ||||
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"Pretty Baby" is a song by Vanessa Carlton from her debut album Be Not Nobody.[1] The song was released as the third single from the album in 2003.
Music video
The video starts with Vanessa inside a large house sitting on top of a staircase. She has a roll duct tape in her hands and starts walking through the house as she starts to sing the song. We then see her sitting down, playing a large, black grande piano. The video contains various flashbacks scenes of her and her lover (Brendan Fehr), such as a kissing scene in a red car, a scene where Vanessa gives her boyfriend a guitar as a gift, and a party scene. At the party, she looks troubled as her boyfriend is talking with another woman. She throws the guitar from the 2nd story window. At the end of the music video, she goes up the stairs and into a bedroom, where we see her boyfriend, panicked, bruised, and bound & gagged with the duct tape from the beginning of the video. Vanessa smiles as she approaches him.[2]
The music video was directed by Marcos Siega.
Awards and accolades
"Pretty Baby" was nominated for "Choice Love Song" at the 2003 Teen Choice Awards; it lost, however, to "Crazy In Love," by Beyoncé & Jay-Z.[3][4]
Charts
The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. It was Carlton's first single to not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her next single to fail to chart would be "Private Radio," a year later.
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) | 62 |
| United Kingdom (The Official Charts Company) | 94 |
| U.S. (Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100)[5] | 101 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop Songs[6] | 21 |
References
- ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Be Not Nobody". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ↑ "Vanessa Carlton - Pretty Baby". YouTube. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ↑ "2003 Teen Choice Awards Nominees". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ↑ girl, nellys. "The 2003 Teen Choice Award Winners". Pop Dirt. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ↑ "Billboard Singles Charts", Billboard.biz
- ↑ "Pretty Baby - Vanessa Carlton", Billboard.com