Green Light (Beyoncé song)
Green Light is a R & B Crunk / Funk Song of the American R & B singer Beyoncé Knowles. The song was produced by Knowles, Sean Garrett and Pharrell for Knowles second studio album, B'Day from the year 2006. It was released on 30 July 2007 as the fifth single from the album in the UK. The song was well received by critics.
In the charts Greenlight was only moderately successful. Greenlight reached # 12 in the UK Top 40 and number 46 in Ireland. The Freemasons remix version of the song reached # 18 in the Dutch charts. The music video for Green Light is inspired by Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love music video from the year 1985. In the music video has Beyoncé's touring band Suga Mama her second appearance in a music video.
Background
After the filming of Dreamgirls, where Beyonce played the lead role, she began work on the second studio album. Through the film Knowles got a lot of new ideas and inspiration for the album and the songs. Beyoncé contacted the songwriter Sean Garrett, who wrote to her already for Destiny 's Child songs, including Knowles hit single Check on It from the year 2006. Along with Pharrell, who had previously gebarbeitet with Knowles, she booked the Sony Music Studios in New York City for the recording and production. Simultaneously, Kitty Kat was written, produced and recorded, which is also included on B'Day.
Musical and content
Green Light is a R & B Crunk / Funk song. The song was composed in F Minor. The CHORD follow the Fm -G series and the Bm7 Minor. Greenlight contains an uh- huh huh huh passage corresponding to those of their hit Crazy in Love. In addition, the uh- oh-oh -oh- oh Passage, a vocal imitation of Amerie's 1 Thing hit single from the year 2005.
The song text is held in the traditional verse - chorus form. The song starts with the intro by Beyoncé Give it to mama sings. This is followed by the verse - chorus - verse - verse - chorus transitions to the bridge. Beyoncé repeats the chorus at the end of the song.
Publication
Along with the song Get Me Bodied both were traded as the first singles from B'Day, but it was decided to Déjà Vu. Beyoncé used both songs for the international market; Ring the alarm but released as the second single from the album. Greenlight was, as the fifth single from the album by Beautiful Liar, published on 30 July 2007 in the UK. Together with the single remix EP Green Light was: Freemasons EP released on 27 July 2007, only as a digital download.
Criticism and success
Green Light was well received by critics. Eb Haynes of AllHipHop called Greenlight as a " classic R & B Song." Andy Kellman of Allmusic called the song as a " strong, powerful dance number ". Said Spence D. of IGN, " 'Green Light' brings high summer feelings. " "The song can be a real summer hit, but whether it is connected to the success of Beautiful Liar is questionable ".
The album version of the song was already on the digital download, as only the album was released. Green Light debuted in the UK Singles Chart at number 152 after the premiere of the music video in July 2007, the single reached on 6 August 2007 No. 17 The strong airplay, the single rose five places to number 12, making it the eleventh Single Knowles Top Twenty hit in the united Kingdom. Greenlight reached for it in the UK download charts even top rankings. At the last minute a CD single was released. Green Light stand for 9 weeks in the British charts. In Ireland, the single debuted on 23 August 2007 at number 46, and left the charts a week later. The Freemasons remix of the song debuted on September 8, 2007 to 30th place of the Dutch charts. The single reached there on 29 September 2007 with number 18 its maximum placement. The song remained there for six weeks in the charts.
Music Video
The director for the music video for Green Light led Melina along with Beyoncé Knowles. In spring 2007 it was one of the two music videos that were recorded in two weeks for the B'Day Anthology Video Album, also the music video for Green Light is one of eight secret music videos from Beyoncé.
Kitty Kat ( intro )
Also led to the one-minute music video for Kitty Kat Melina and Beyoncé together Director. At the beginning of the music video can be seen by Beyoncé simple dance scenes, with Beyoncé's face and eyes are fixed, which are made up and styled that they should resemble a cat. Shortly thereafter comes a big cat in the video, which then plays with Beyoncé and a pink Stoffknäuelchen.
The huge cat itself was designed and is a great robot design with a fur coat, it is then the huge cat and the movements. The video was meant only for B'Day Anthology where Beyoncé wears more clothes and everything even hotter holding than in the music video for Kitty Kat, so many scenes were cut out. The whole complete original music video was never released.
Greenlight
The music video for Green Light is inspired by Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love music video from 1985, where a woman with her guitar interprets a rock star. In the music video has Beyoncé's touring band Suga Mama her second appearance in a music video. With Green Light Beyonce wanted a modern version of the above video, as they also wanted to include instruments in the video and also wanted to interpret a rock star.
Beyonce describes the filming of Green Light as " the hardest rotation time for a hot clip of me". In the video, Beyoncé dancing in a hot latex leather suit. Beyoncé dances only with a group of women who wallow after some time on the ground and later Knowles begrabschen and interpret an orgasm. The exact same scene takes place later again with a group of men. Beyoncé's touring band Suga Mama played in this music video with a second time. The members of Suga Mama are in the group of women in the music video.