Bootylicious
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"Bootylicious" is a song performed by the R&B girl group Destiny's Child. It appears on their third album Survivor (2001) and was released as the second single from the album; it became their fourth U.S. number-one single and reached the top-five in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The music video was directed by Matthew Rolston.
The song and its success
The song "Bootylicious" is about a confident woman taunting a man, suggesting that he is not ready because her body is "too bootylicious". Multi-platinum music producer, Rob Fusari produced this record and featured a sample from the Stevie Nicks song "Edge of Seventeen", and Stevie herself appears in the beginning of the video. It is also one of the few times that Kelly Rowland takes the lead, having two verses to Beyoncé Knowles' one, though Knowles still adlibs. Ironically despite Rowland's lead in the song, Kelly Rowland has mentioned that "Bootylicious" is the most irritating Destiny's Child song for her since she has heard it too many times.[1]
"Bootylicious" debuted at #66 on the Hot 100 on June 9, 2001 and climbed to its peak position nine weeks later, and remained on the chart for a relatively short nineteen weeks.
In the UK "Bootylicious" was released on July 23, 2001 and debuted at #2 on the singles chart behind the Atomic Kitten cover single "Eternal Flame". It sold over 169,000 copies and propelled Survivor back to the top of The Official UK Albums Chart.
A hip hop-styled remix (the "Rockwilder Remix") was produced by Rockwilder, Knowles, and Missy Elliott. This version was issued to urban markets, and had a hip-hop culture based music video to accompany it, in which Beyoncé wears a belt that has the word "Bootylicious" misspelled as "Bootyliciuos", as pointed out by Carson Daly on an episode of TRL.
A combination of the R&B vocals from this song and the grunge rock music of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is one of the best-known examples of the "bastard pop" genre, where elements from seemingly incompatible songs are mixed together. A later mashup used the music of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with the "Bootylicious" vocals.
The music video for "Bootylicious" , directed by Matthew Rolston, showed Destiny's Child performing dance steps from Michael Jackson's famous "Billie Jean" performance from the special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. As the group is dancing, the members appear in several different costumes. These scenes are interloped with the group dancing in front of a dance troupe made of all boys. Stevie Nicks also makes an appearance in the beginning of the song's video. The group asked Nicks personally to do so, and she was delighted to contribute. Solange Knowles, Beyonce's sister, also makes a brief cameo in the video.
The song created moderate controversy, in a time when late '90s teen pop was pushing the boundaries of female sexuality and the group saw themselves as role models[2] for younger girls, Destiny's Child was claiming "G-rated fun" and confidence in body image though the lyrics yet the music video suggested much more with the group wearing lots of make-up, form-fitting clothes, sexually suggestive dancing, and even close-ups on several dancers buttocks.[3]
Beyonce told Maxim Magazine in the May 2001 issue that she was also thinking of Michael Jackson when penning the songs "Bootylicious" and "Fancy"
The group later performed the song in front of Jackson for his thirtieth Anniversary concert, complete with their rendition of his dance moves. Before the premiere of the video on MTV's Making the Video, the girls still dressed in their Jacksons style clothes including a single glove dedicated the video to Michael Jackson.
English rock band Keane performed a medley consisting of "Bootylicious" Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge. An audio recording is available on Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 2.
Etymology of the term
The term bootylicious was first heard in a rap song by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg entitled, "Fuck Wit' Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" from the 1992 album The Chronic.
The word was added to multiple dictionaries in 2006. It is a portmanteau of "booty" (buttocks) and "delicious." Beyoncé has said that her definition of the word is "beautiful, bountiful and bounce-able." She also said that the term is also about feeling beautiful and glamorous in one's own skin. The original meaning used by Snoop Dogg was negative, meaning "bad" or "weak".
The word was especially popular (from the middle of 2001 to early 2002) in slang during the song's popularity, similar to how Justin Timberlake's SexyBack was popular in 2006.
In 2005, The SCORE Group, a very popular adult-entertainment publishing company based in Florida, introduced a new magazine called BootyLicious, which is dedicated to exhibiting women (primarily of African or Latino ethnicity) with either well-endowed or round-looking buttocks.
Credits and personnel
- Lead vocals: Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé Knowles, Michelle Williams
- Vocal production - Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Faltone Moore
Formats and remixes
- "Bootylicious" (Big Boyz Remix)
- "Bootylicious" (Ed Case Refix)
- "Bootylicious" (Freeform Five Remix)
- "Bootylicious" (Love: Destiny Version)
- "Bootylicious" (M&J's Jelly Remix)
- "Bootylicious" (Richard Humpty Vission's Club Mix)
- "Bootylicious" (Richard Humpty Vission's D.J. Dub)
- "Bootylicious" (Richard Humpty Vission's V-Quest Remix)
- "Bootylicious" (Richard Humpty Vission's Edit)
- "Bootylicious" (Rockwilder Remix) (feat Missy Elliott) w/ Music Video
- "Bootylicious" (Transient Mix)
- "Bootylicious" (Ultimix Remix)
- "Bootylicious" (DJ Dub Mix)
- "Bootylicious" (UK Mix)
- "Bootylicious" (Groove Chronicles Remix)
- "Smells Like Teen Booty" - Nirvana vs. Destiny's Child ("Smells Like Teen Spirit" / "Bootylicious" mash-up)
Chart performance
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References
- ^ ContactMusic.com 2008
- ^ BNET Interview
- ^ The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding - Destiny's Child: Pop Music Pied Pipers
- ^ allmusic ((( Destiny's Child > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))
- ^ Destiny's Child Bootylicious @ Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries
- ^ Chart Data: Destiny`s Child
- ^ everyHit.com - UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts