You Give Love a Bad Name
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"You Give Love a Bad Name" is a song written by Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child and Richie Sambora about a nameless woman who has jilted her lover. Although originally written for the band Loverboy, the song was recorded by Bon Jovi. The track was released as the first single from the hard rock album Slippery When Wet and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 29, 1986, Bon Jovi's first number one hit. The song reentered the charts at #29 after Blake Lewis performed it on American Idol.
Song structure
The song was written with several catchy repeated lines and associated hooks to appeal to mainstream audiences including the chorus as well as several bridges. Much of the resulting cross-over pop success can be attributed to the work of professional songwriting collaborator Desmond Child.{{Fact|date=June 2007
Music video
The music video for the song used all-color concert footage (the only all-color video song from Slippery When Wet) and Soteria photogenic shots primarily of Jon Bon Jovi as well as other band members in concert. This video, along with Livin' On A Prayer, was filmed at Rochester's Mayo Civic Center.
Mandaryna version
In 2005, Polish singer Mandaryna released a version of "You Give Love a Bad Name" as the second single from her number one album mandaryna.com2me. The song became her second #1 single on Polish Singles Chart. Jon Bon Jovi said that he really likes Mandaryna's version so she could release it as a single.[citation needed]
Blake Lewis version
The song was performed May 1, 2007 by American Idol season 6 runner-up Blake Lewis, who radically transformed it via a beatbox arrangement, to much acclaim from the judges. The performance was later ranked #6 on AOL's top 20 all-time greatest American Idol performances.[1] Lewis later performed it again for one of his three songs for the season finale on May 22, 2007.
Shortly after the Idol's finale, the studio version of the song was released on iTunes Store as well as being a track on Blake Lewis - EP. It peaked at #4 on the iTunes Top 100 chart and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #18.[2] The song charted higher and sold more in every week of its chart run than Idol winner Jordin Sparks' single "This Is My Now", with the exception of the first week, in which "This Is My Now" debuted three places ahead, at #15.[3][4]
Other versions
The song was also covered by the Metalcore band Atreyu and is available on their 2004 album The Curse. It was covered on the Kerrang! CD, High Voltage. It is frequently played during their shows even though it was voted one of the years biggest rock atrocities in Total Guitar.
Jonathan Fin covered this song, but, talking about how Barry Bonds gave baseball a bad name. The line, "shot through the heart and you're to blame, you give love a bad name,' was changed to, "Shot in the ass before the game, you give baseball a bad name."
Some critics say that the song has the same chorus structure as "If You Were A Woman And I Was A Man" by Bonnie Tyler. [5] The Tyler song was also cowritten by Desmond Child. There is also a remix called "Shock From The Heart" with a new rapper named Famouz.
It was also recently done by Demi Lovato at her concert on Monday December 8th at the Wiltern Theatre
In Pop Culture
Ranked Number 20 in VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs
This song is also played several times by the character Barney Stinson on the CBS TV Show "How I Met Your Mother" in Episode 11 of Season One (The Limo). It is the first song on his '"Get Psyched" Mix'.
In the popular game Warcraft 3, the Night Elf Archer unit will quote after multiple mouse clicks, "Shot through the heart, and I'm to blame."
The song was used in the commercial of a 1995 Kia Pregio. (released in South Korea). [1]
The song was made playable in the music video game, GuitarFreaks 6th Mix/Drummania 5th Mix, as well as Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades.
This song was played on a recorder by the character Dwight on the NBC TV Show "The Office" in Episode 2 of Season (Dunder Mifflin Infinity).
References
- ^ ""The Top 20 'Idol' Performances Ever"". AOL.com. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- ^ Fred Bronson (May 31, 2007). ""Rihanna, Shop Boyz Rocket to the Top of Hot 100: 'Now' 15, 'Name' 18"". Billboard "Chart Beat". Retrieved 2007-05-31.
- ^ "Chart Run for "You Give Love a Bad Name"". αCharts.us. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
- ^ "Chart Run for "This Is My Now"". αCharts.us. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
- ^ ""Secret Dreams & Forbidden Fire"". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 18 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 20 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 47 |
| Itunes Top 100 | 4 |
