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Bootylicious
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| "Bootylicious" | ||
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| Single by Destiny's Child | ||
| from the album Survivor | ||
| Released | July 3, 2001 | |
| Format | CD single 12" single |
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| Genre | Dance-pop | |
| Length | 3:27 | |
| Label | Columbia | |
| Writer(s) | Beyoncé Knowles Rob Fusari Faltone Moore S. Nicks |
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| Producer(s) | Beyoncé Knowles Rob Fusari Faltone Moore |
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| Certification | Platinum (ARIA) | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Destiny's Child singles chronology | ||
| "Survivor" (2001) |
"Bootylicious" (2001) |
"Emotion" (2001) |
"Bootylicious" is a song performed by R&B girl group Destiny's Child. It appears on their third album Survivor (2001) and was released as the third 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.
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The song "Bootylicious" features lyrics of a confident woman taunting a man, suggesting that he is not ready because her body is "too bootylicious". It features an interpolation from the Stevie Nicks song "Edge of Seventeen".
"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.
"Bootylicious" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 4, 2001 famously beating the Mariah Carey single "Loverboy" to the number one spot and ending her streak of having the debut single from every album reaching the top of the US charts.
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" showed Destiny's Child performing dance steps from Michael Jackson's famous "Billie Jean" performance from the special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. The group later performed the song in front of Jackson for his thirtieth Anniversary concert, complete with their rendition of his dance moves.
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 contibute.
Australian girl group Young Divas have covered this live. [1]
Destiny's Child member Beyoncé Knowles, while often credited with the word, did not coin "bootylicious." While the album, "Survivor," was released May 1, 2001 including the song, "Bootylicious," by Destiny Child, the first recorded use is by Snoop Doggy Dogg in the song, "Fuck Wit Dre Day," on Dr. Dre's debut album, "The Chronic," released December 15, 1992:
- "Your bark was loud, but your bite wasn't vicious,
- And them rhymes you were kickin' were quite bootylicious."
In this context, "bootylicious" meant "bad" or "weak," but that sense is now rare. There is also a use of the term in a Season 6 "lost episode" of "A Different World." Season 6 ran from September 24, 1992 to July 9, 1993 and was the final season of the program. This episode was titled "Homie, Don't Ya Know Me?" and is filed as Episode 142, or Episode 22 of Season 6. In this episode, guest character Champ (Shaun Baker) refers to Gina (Ajai Sanders) and Charmaine (Karen Malina White) as "bootylicious." In this context, the word has the popular definition as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary Online:
- "esp. of a woman, often with reference to the buttocks; sexually attractive, sexy; shapely."
The word was added to the OED Online in 2004. 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.
- "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)
- "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)
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Beyoncé Knowles • Kelly Rowland • Michelle Williams
LeToya Luckett • LaTavia Roberson • Farrah Franklin
Albums: Destiny's Child (1998) • The Writing's on the Wall (1999) • Survivor (2001)
8 Days of Christmas (2001) • This Is the Remix (2002) • Destiny Fulfilled (2004) • #1's (2005)
DVDs: The Platinum's on the Wall (2001) • World Tour (2003) • Live in Atlanta (2006)
| Preceded by "U Remind Me" by Usher |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single August 4, 2001- August 11, 2001 |
Succeeded by "Fallin'" by Alicia Keys |