Irreplaceable
Irreplaceable is a song by American R & B singer Beyoncé Knowles. It was released released on December 5, 2006 as the second single from her album B'Day. The piece is a pop - R & B song with influences from country music.
Irreplaceable was received generally positively by critics; the piece has received several awards. In the music video, which was also given various awards, is first seen Beyoncé Knowles tour band Suga Mama.
Background and Inspiration
Irreplaceable was not initially intended for Beyoncé Knowles, Chrisette Michele but for. The Norwegian production team Stargate and American R & B singer Ne -Yo wrote the song for Knowles second solo album, B'Day; Tor Erik Hermansen but Stargate stated that it was " wrong that we produce the song." Ne -Yo wrote the text from a male perspective and not from the female. The song was intended to be a country song for country artists like Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood and Faith Hill. As Ne -Yo the song on a guitar Played, he thought that it sounded much more like western music as a perfect country. But when the drums were added to the music, there was a stronger R & B influence and Ne -Yo decided to produce an R & B - pop- country-western song.
Be the first to Ne-Yo sang the song, but it quickly became clear that a male voice not so fit a song. Meanwhile Knowles already working on her album B'Day, after they had played the lead role in the film Dreamgirls. After some time, her demo was presented by Irreplaceable, from which she was thrilled, so asked Knowles if she could contribute vocals to the song. Ne -Yo was very pleased with the selection of Knowles and the recordings subsequently found in the Sony Music Studios in New York City.
" What sometimes happens when you think about a particular artist and want to paste it into the project so that the song reaches its quality, then you are doing what you are supposed to do three years ago would have. "
After recording Irreplaceable Hermansen said that " everyone feels special when Beyoncé sings the song so beautiful. Has solved its task perfectly and we have made a perfect decision with the choice of Beyoncé. We could do nothing worse and nothing better could, as Beyonce select for singing ". In an interview told Ne -Yo: " Beyoncé has something about him that makes it so special, we have opted for the right thing. ".
Musical and content
Irreplaceable is a pop song with R & B and country influences, written in B flat major, the tempo is 88 bpm. Knowles Vocal range includes two and a half octaves, from B ♭ to E ♭ 5 2
Irreplaceable uses an acoustic guitar, which the B ♭ 5 -F5- Cm7 -E ♭ plays 6/9 chord progression. Hermansen and Eriksen combined the classic progression on an acoustic guitar, a modern 808- drumbeat and the cello. Al Shipley of Stylus Magazine said that the guitar melody of Rihanna's single Hate That I Love You, a song that was produced by Stargate and Ne - Yo, was stolen. The single With You by Chris Brown also contains the same guitar melody, what wrote Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone magazine that " Stargate ' Irreplaceable ' and the success carried over to others, and that several times ."
Irreplaceable is about a woman who makes up with her boyfriend because she caught him with another woman. Hermansen said: "It's a song that everyone can hear and to which everyone has a reference ". In an interview, Knowles said:
"Normally we can not forget our strength and our words. And sometimes (...) you're so in love that you still forget it. And sometimes you feel by just bad [ and ] sad. And (...) sometimes they forget that everything can be restored. "
Said Bill Lamb of About.com, that the female subject of Irreplaceable has some similarities to the concept of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale in 1995.
The song is in a verse before chorus chorus form. It starts with the guitar, Knowles sings the hook Intro "To the left, to the left", repeated the three times. In clock seven the first verse, in which they discussed with her boyfriend about their relationship and then makes up with him begins. The pre- chorus and chorus follow the second stanza, in which she discovers her boyfriend while cheating. The second verse is repeated and goes to the bridge. It follows again the intro and the chorus is repeated and faded out.
Publication and live performances
Followed by B'Day 's first single Déjà Vu and Ring the Alarm Irreplaceable was released as the third single from the album on December 5, 2006, Knowles record label Columbia Records. 's Third single, following " Ring the Alarm". Knowles also took a Spanish version called Irreemplazable that is included on the deluxe edition of B'Day and was released on June 12, 2007. A Irreemplazable -EP was released in the U.S. on August 28th and in Europe on 10 September 2007.
The premiere had Irreplaceable at the American Music Awards 2006, where Knowles sang the song at the opening show live. The American country band Sugarland, which is known to Knowles chose to cover songs during live performances, led at the American Music Awards 2007 Country version of " Irreplaceable " live on. Irreplaceable led Knowles 2007 always as last song of The- Beyoncé Experience World Tour live on. The live performance at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, is on the DVD The Beyoncé Experience Live! included.
Criticism
Because most of the songs from B'Day in Upbeat are Irreplaceable was mostly well received by critics, mainly because of the guitar melody. Most of praise but got Stargate for their simple, pop-oriented productions. Jody Rosen of Entertainment Weekly! ' describes the song as the best ever by Beyoncé Knowles. Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe ', however, praised the hook of the song.
Lamb listed Irreplaceable on his side as the strongest song on the album.
The song was because of the text subject of controversy. Ne -Yo said in an interview with MTV:
"Before we recorded the song with Beyonce, she came by and said, " I write this song for my girlfriends " and that made her even then. She was also involved ... but I wrote the lyrics, I wrote everything. Beyoncé helped me with the melodies and the harmonies and the vocal range, but she did not write the song. My work and their work made the song to what it is now. "
Commercial success
During the production of Irreplaceable, Hermansen thought that the song is not played on the radio, because of the acoustic guitar and because it is too poporientiert. Irreplaceable was successful worldwide and was named after Crazy in Love 's second most successful single of their career. The song was ten weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, was awarded several times in the U.S. with multi-platinum and was the best selling single of 2007.
After the single end of 2006, number one on the Billboard Hot 100 conquered, it was Knowles fourth number -one hit in the U.S. and her second in 2006, after which check on It, a duet with rapper Slim Thug, five weeks could hold at No. 1. Irreplaceable was ten weeks after the other on the top position and was only superseded by Nelly Furtado Say It Right Single. Irreplaceable miscarried baby Boys nine-week record, but not the eleven-week of Destiny's Childs Single Independent Women Part I from the year 2000. The song stayed 30 weeks in the U.S. charts and was awarded three times with multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Irreemplazable did not make it into the official charts. The single has already over 2,697,000 digital units sold in the U.S. (September 2009).
Irreplaceable reached number 4 in the United Kingdom and the top ten in many European countries. The song spent 12 weeks in the top 20 and a total of 25 weeks in the UK singles chart. The song is Beyonce's third most successful single in the United Kingdom.
Music Video
The music video includes the debut of Knowles tour band Suga Mama, which also had an appearance in the music video for Green Light. Knowles ex-boyfriend in the video is Bobby Roache, who played a cop in the music video to Ring the Alarm. The music video is included on the B'Day Anthology Video Album of 2007, the song Irreemplazable which will continue it. In one scene of the clip Knowles dancing in front of a glass pane, which is inspired by the James Bond films. Late in January 2008, " Irreemplazable " premiered on the MiTRL, a video countdown show on the bilingual channel MTV Tr3s.