Pharrell has written a lot of big pop songs. Gwen wanted to write a song in response to Courtney Love derogatorily referring to her as a "cheerleader." She told NME: "You want me to be a cheerleader? Well, I will be one then. And I'll rule the whole world, just you watch me." And so "Hollaback Girl" was born.
The track was positioned at number 10 on Time's list of 2016's best songs.[17] Slant named it the second best single of 2016.[18] German magazine Juice named it the seventh best international rap song of 2016.[19]
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The song's music video premiered at a Tidal exclusive event at The Forum in Inglewood, California on June 24, 2016. The video begins with a camera passing slowly over the naked, lookalike sleeping bodies of famous personalities. The bodies of all of the celebrities are synthetic.[44] At the end of the video, the camera pans out to show all of the sleeping bodies at the same time as West wakes up from his slumber.[44] Vincent Desiderio's painting Sleep is the visual inspiration for the video.[45]
Two days prior to the video's release, West showed the video to Dirk Standen of Vanity Fair over Skype while the video was still in its final editing stages. The video was filmed over a period of three months and went through four different versions prior to the finalized version. West did not reveal which of the celebrities' bodies in the video were real and which ones were prosthetic; however, he stated that the video was "not in support or [against] any of [the people in the video]" and was merely "a comment on fame". He also stated that he had received his wife's permission.[46] Days after its release, E! Online editor Corinne Heller commented, "Swift is the main reason the 'Famous' video was so anticipated." However, it received "almost no reactions" from the celebrities portrayed.[47] Audience response to the video was polarized.[48] The video of the song was uploaded to YouTube on July 1, 2016. West's song "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1" is also featured in the video.[49] It was negatively received on YouTube, gathering nearly 100,000 dislikes three days after being uploaded, which outweighed the number of likes.[50] German director Werner Herzog expressed admiration for the video, describing it as "very good stuff" and admitting he had "never seen anything like this".[51] The sculptures depicted in the music video are on a gallery tour, whose sale value estimates go as high as $4 million.[52]
Celebrity includes elements of several musical genres, including pop,[13][14] R&B,[14] and teen pop.[15] In contrast to No Strings Attached, the decision to experiment with different sounds on songs such as "Pop" was made so NSYNC could appear more mature and musically diverse.[4] The album fuses sounds from NSYNC's earlier songs such as "Bye Bye Bye" (2000) with experimental genres, including hip hop and British two-step.[3] Several of the producers who worked on Celebrity influenced the unique sound of each track, which was attributed to the band's self-awareness and desire to accentuate different aspects of their music.[16]
"Tell Me, Tell Me... Baby" was written by Max Martin and includes elements of Europop.[16] According to O'Brien, the song contains "larger than life beats, swelling strings" and a bombastic chorus, which serves as a "blatant throwback".[5] "Up Against the Wall" is an R&B song that features two-step garage elements;[22] it was compared to Billy Joel's song "Get It Right the First Time" from his 1977 album The Stranger,[23] while the middle eight was compared to songs by the UK garage group So Solid Crew.[5] "See Right Through You", the ninth track on Celebrity, has an R&B sound;[19] according to David Browne of Entertainment Weekly, the song is "another tale of betrayal by scheming girls". The Brian McKnight-produced track "Selfish" combines the vocals of Chasez and Timberlake with an adult contemporary track.[15] "Just Don't Tell Me That", a teen pop track, is similar to songs by Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.[11] The song's lyrics describe a "fame-seeking girlfriend" spending too much time at the Playboy Mansion.[5] According to Browne, "Something Like You" is a "squishy ballad with drooling-puppy harmonies and lyrics".[15] The chorus was compared to the Boyz II Men song "4 Seasons of Loneliness".[5] The US version of the album's final song "Do Your Thing" contains "stuttering electronic beats" and a bar by the songwriter J. Moss.[5] Browne described the song as "mild electronica";[15] "Do Your Thing" is included on Celebrity because Jive Records wanted a song that showcased NSYNC's vocal talents and harmony.[1]
The album was officially announced on April 2, 2001 as Celebrity, with Jive Records having intentions to release an "uptempo" first single later that month.[26][27] On May 11, 2001, MTV played a recording of "Pop" via satellite during NSYNC's tour rehearsal for PopOdyssey, leading to the song's release to radio stations as the album's lead single three days later.[28] Celebrity was initially set to be released on June 26, 2001, with the opening date of PopOdyssey on May 12, 2001.[26][27] The tour was postponed to May 18, 2001, because the staging was still in development, and the album's release date was postponed to July 24, 2001.[29][30] NSYNC decided to perform the tracks from Celebrity on tour before its release.[31] The tour was sponsored by Verizon, which launched several television and radio advertising campaigns across the US in promotion of the album and its release date.[32] In an interview with Billboard, Chasez stated the concept of playing new songs at a concert was unusual but he felt it was a good sign that the crowd was actively participating. Jive Records president Barry Weiss was surprised by the band's touring approach, acknowledging the audience response would indicate "an album of immeasurable creative and commercial depth".[28]
MTV broadcast a television special entitled The Road to Celebrity on July 21 and 22, 2001.[28] The premiere of Celebrity, which included celebrities such as Britney Spears, Hugh Hefner, the Olsen Twins, and Aisha Tyler, was held at West Hollywood on July 23, 2001.[33] NSYNC also played several songs at a tailgate party in the parking lot and appeared on MTV's Total Request Live on July 24, 2001, coinciding with the date of the album's ultimate release.[28] To promote Celebrity, NSYNC appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Today, between June and August 2001.[34] On the August 2001 magazine issue of Rolling Stone, each NSYNC member was featured on an individual cover, in addition to a cover with the whole group.[35] The recording process and promotional cycle for Celebrity was more condensed than previous albums, as the group scrambled to finish the album while planning for PopOdyssey. Chasez stated that the process of recording, promoting and touring was "everything at once".[1]
NSYNC embarked on two concert tours to promote the album. The first was PopOdyssey, which began on May 23, 2001, in Jacksonville, Florida,[36] and concluded on September 1, 2001, in Mexico City.[37] The tour's set was a five-story-high main stage with several smaller stages surrounding it, with the setup being transported by 88 trucks in comparison to the 19 trucks used for their No Strings Attached Tour (2000).[38] Earning over $90 million, PopOdyssey was the second biggest tour of 2001.[39] The band's second tour for Celebrity was the Celebrity Tour, which began on March 3, 2002, in Portland, Oregon, and concluded on April 28, 2002, in Orlando, Florida.[40] In contrast to PopOdyssey, the tour favored music over spectacle and incorporated their older songs with new arrangements.[41][42] It earned $33 million.[43]
Celebrity is retrospectively seen as "a logical swan song" for NSYNC because it came after the record-breaking commercial success of No Strings Attached and before the band's eventual dissolution.[18][66] Music critics observed that the album was the basis for Timberlake's solo career,[5][73] as the album's singles consisted of only songs Timberlake co-wrote, in addition to album promotion that centered around Timberlake.[74] Hugar compared Celebrity to Zayn Malik's and Harry Styles' desires for solo stardom after One Direction's hiatus, concluding that it is "a reminder that boy bands are rarely built to last".[18] NPR's Maria Sherman stated the album shifted the band further towards the R&B genre and "firmly established Timberlake as the bandleader and pushed Chasez's powerful pop vocals to the periphery".[75] Andrew Unterberger of Billboard acknowledged that Celebrity contained sounds which "pushes pop music into the future".[17]
In the years since, they've recorded many songs together, including "It's Your Love," "Let's Make Love," "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me," "I Need You," "Angry All the Time," "Speak to a Girl," and "Like We Never Loved at All."
The two split shortly after the album was released, but continued to live and work together. He cowrote and produced four songs for her sophomore album, 2017's "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom," including the harsh breakup songs "Lie" and "Walls Could Talk."
"I would call him and send him songs to get his opinion, and if I was ever stuck on something, he'd help me out, which is super f---ing cool, if you think about it," she told USA Today. "I'd play him songs on FaceTime and he'd be like, 'I'm so proud of you, you did such a good job.' So he just cares about me and wants to see me do well, which is really nice."
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