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"Irresistible"
Song

"Irresistible" is the first single from Jessica Simpson's second album, Irresistible. Released in 2001, the single reached fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Simpson's second top-twenty hit. The single also reached eleven in the United Kingdom.

The single is best known for its music video, changing Simpson's once conservative virginal image to an overtly sexual image for the first time (which would be refined in the video for "Sweetest Sin").

The single is generally considered to be one of her signature songs, and is her most successful single in the WorldWide to date.

Release history

Country Date
United States April 10, 2001
Canada May 29, 2001
Mexico June 13, 2001
Argentina
Sweden
Belgium
Norway June 21, 2001
Switzerland June 24, 2001
Germany June 25, 2001
Australia July 3, 2001
United Kingdom July 7, 2001

Track Listings

US Vinyl, 12"

  • A1 Irresistible [Kupper Club Mix] 7:04
  • A2 Irresistible [So So Def Remix] 3:34
  • B1 Irresistible [Hex Hector Club Mix] 8:53
  • B2 Irresistible [Riprock N' Alex G Remix Deluxe] 3:05

US Vinyl, 12", Promo

  • A Irresistible [So So Def Remix] 3:34
  • B1 Irresistible [Riprock N' Alex G Remix Deluxe] 3:05
  • B2 Irresistible 3:11

US Vinyl, 12" [1]

  • 1 Irresistible [Hex Hector Club Mix] 8:53
  • 2 Irresistible [So So Def Remix] 3:34
  • 3 Irresistible [Riprock N' Alex G Remix Deluxe] 3:05
  • 4 Irresistible [Kupper Club Mix] 7:04
  • 5 Irresistible [Kupper Club Mix Instrumental] 7:04
  • 6 Irresistible [So So Def Remix Instrumental] 3:34

Australia Maxi-CD

  • 1 Irresistible 3:11
  • 2 Irresistible [So So Def Remix] 3:34 Featuring Lil' Bow Wow
  • 3 Irresistible [Riprock 'N' Alex G Remix Deluxe] 3:05
  • 4 Irresistible [Hex Hector Club Mix] 8:53

Sweden Maxi-CD

  • 1 Irresistible 3:11
  • 2 Irresistible [So So Def Remix] 3:34
  • 3 Irresistible [Hex Hector Radio Mix] 3:31
  • VIDEO Irresistible [Video Version] 3:09

Europe Single

  • 1 Irresistible 3:11
  • 2 Irresistible [So So Def Remix] 3:34


*Also, the So So Def Remix, samples Club Nouveau's "Why You Treat Me So Bad" organ.

Remix/official versions

  • Album Version - 3:13
  • Version of Lizzie McGuire's Soundtrack - 3:12
  • Version of the song is on the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 2
  • Alex G & Riprock Main Accapella
  • Alex G & Riprock Main Instrumental
  • Alex G & Riprock Main
  • Arenna Unreleased Mix
  • Hex Hector & Dezrok Main Club Mix
  • Hex Hector & Dezrok Main Dub Mix
  • Hex Hector Club Mix - 8:51
  • Hex Hector Main Vocal Mix Accapella
  • Hex Hector Main Vocal Mix Instrumental
  • Hex Hector Main Vocal Mix
  • Hex Hector Radio Mix
  • Kupper Club Mix - 7:04
  • Kupper Radio Mix
  • So So Def Remix Featuring Lil Bow Wow

Irresistible appeared in the following compilation album:

  • Bravo Hits, Vol. 34
  • Festivalbar 2001: Compilation Blu
  • Lizzie McGuire (Original Television Soundtrack)
  • Ultra Dance 01

Song information

"Irresistible" was written by Anders Bagge, A. Birgisson, and Pamela Sheyne, and produced by Bagge and Birgisson. In this upbeat dance-pop-oriented lead single, Jessica breaks her once imposed Christian boundaries by using suggestive language in a single for the first time, as she questions her personal vows of celibacy when she meets a man she is very sexually attracted to. Simpson realizes she's supposed to wait (until marriage), as she sings: "But he's irresistible, up close and personal, now inescapable, I can hardly breathe".

Commercial release

Irresistible was the second canceled commercial CD single from Jessica Simpson. The song was to be released on the 3rd of July 2000 within the US. However Columbia decided to cancel the commercial release due to the single climbing the Billboard charts rapidly with airplay only. The single was canceled a month before its physical release date. The single was going to be released in the US as a single and a maxi-single. The CD single was to contain the album version and the instrumental version, while the maxi was to contain the number one club mix from DJ Hex Hector and the remix featuring Lil' Bow Wow. A vinyl single was released for purchase.

Promotion

The performances include several television appearances and festivals to promote her single and second album, Irresistible.

Simpson first performed "Irresistible" publicly at the MTV SpringBreak in Cancun on March 16, 2001. Two months after she appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show on May 11 and MTV TRL on May 31. After June 1 she performed on Wango Tango and in the evening in the summer concert Zootopia, Radio Z100.

On June 7, she performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

She also traveled the world to promote her single and second album, Irresistible.

As in MuchMusic in Canada, CD:UK and SMTV in United Kingdom, she traveled to Germany to performed in programs Top of the Pops on June 21 and Viva Interaktiv and Italy performed at the Festivalbar and in the Monkey Club Paris. She also traveled to Sweden and Netherlands to promote the song.

On August 2001, she made her first appearance in Latin America to be in Otro Rollo in Mexico.

Notably, the song was performed in the Macy's 4th of July for the celebration of Independence Day.

Music video

Although her debut album had been a modest hit, her boss at Columbia Records, Tommy Mottola, was not pleased with the results. Although Simpson had been planned to be the next big pop superstar, she had failed to come close to the sales of her pop contemporaries, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. To increase sales, Mottola felt that Simpson needed a sexier image, and she was ordered to lose weight and appear in sexier clothes publicly and for her new music videos.

The first video in which she displayed her new sexier side was the one for "Irresistible". Directed by Simon Brand, this dark futuristic spy-like music video showed Jessica in sexy and revealing clothes. The video begins in a helicopter supposedly, leaves Jessica in a building to fulfill its mission, which apparently is the compromise evidence in the laboratory. Jessica immediately appears on the elevator, with wears tight clothes, black leather. To get the chorus of the song, the elevator comes to a stop and Jessica walks out in a passage, while casts a kind of pump (which has the shape of the Yin Yang symbol, the same video appears to get started with the letters JS in reference to Jessica Simpson). At the end to sing the chorus, Jessica goes to a secret tunnel, and she is seen with another very striking sexy clothes when she made her stop, a kind of robot is led immediately to the top-secret laboratory. Jessica again shows a change of clothes very sexy, a white top and skinny jeans, while doing a sexy dance, to get the bomb during rush hour, the lab explodes. Jessica is seen on the roof of the building, with a black leather clothes, while the ninjas go up to the roof, Simpson and they immediately performance a dance, to finish, the helicopter comes and rescues Jessica after serving her mission.

The video was the WorldPremiere on TRL on May 9, the following day debut in the number 10, after 7 days of the video came at number 2.[1] The video was maintained for 26 weeks in the countdown, he made his second successful video on TRL. The video also helped Jessica to be revealed at the Latin American and therefore had great success in top 10 of MTV Latin America, also was a success on several channels of international music.

Due to the breakthrough in sex appeal and the spy theme, the video is often compared to Mariah Carey's "Honey" (which also has a spy theme and featured Carey in sexy clothes for the first time in her career).

A music video was also filmed for the So So Def remix of the song. Simpson is never seen with Lil' Bow Wow, as his shots were filmed separately. As Simpson was practically forced to wear sexy clothes for the video, she is not exactly fond of it. The video also sparked controversy due to the remixs lyrics in which Jessica sings "Nigga you know" at around 2:34. This in addition to the wardrobe shocked her heavy Christian fanbase, and as a result, she lost several once dedicated fans.

Chart performance

As the first single from Simpson's second album, there was pressure for this single in particular to do well, not only so that the album would succeed, but also to avoid the traditional "sophomore slump" that many artists have faced in the past.

"Irresistible" did both, as it reached the number one spot of the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed for 20 constectutive weeks.[2] It was also reached # 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play, top-five hit on both the Top 40 Tracks and Top 40 Mainstream. To appeal to Simpson's African-American R&B fanbase, the So So Def remix of "Irresistible" was created, but didn't really help the song in urban markets.

Internationally it was a success, as the song reached the peak # 2 in Belgium (Flanders) and the Top 20 in the United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, Philippines and Australia, and Top 40 on Italy, Holland, Germany, and New Zealand, which by its single becomes more enjoying fame in the world.

"Irresistible" is her first single to enter the LatinAmerican Chart since her previous singles, outside the United States reached the charts of European countries.

Charts and Certifications

Chart (2001) Peak
Position
U.S. Hot Dance Club Play 1
U.S. Top 40 Mainstream 3
U.S. Top 40 Tracks 5
U.S. Rhythmic Top 40 12
U.S. Hot 100 Airplay 13
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] 15
Belgian Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders)[3] 2
Belgian Ultratop 40 Singles (Wallonia)[4] 6
German Singles Chart[5] 10
Mexican Top Singles 11
UK Singles Chart[6] 11
Argentina Top 20 Singles 13
Romanian Singles Chart 12
Canadian Singles Chart[7] 16
Norwegian Singles Chart[8] 16
Sweden Top 60[9] 17
Irish Singles Chart[10] 18
Switzerland Top 100[11] 20
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[12] 21
Italian Singles Chart[13] 28
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 41
Austrian Single Chart 50
Dutch Singles Chart 54

Annual Charts

Country Position
Australia[14] 50
U.S. 63

Certifications

Country Certification Sales
Australia[15] Gold 35,000

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jessica Simpson.
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  3. ^ http://www.ultratop.be/nl/weekchart.asp?cat=st&year=2001&date=20010630
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  11. ^ http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Jessica+Simpson&titel=Irresistible&cat=s
  12. ^ http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Jessica+Simpson&titel=Irresistible&cat=s
  13. ^ http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/indici/per_interprete/as.htm
  14. ^ Australian Recording Industry Association (2001). "ARIA Annual Chart".
  15. ^ http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-singles-2001.htm
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