Go Girl (Ciara song)

Infobox Single
Name = Go Girl


Artist = Ciara featuring T-Pain
from Album = Fantasy Ride
Released = start date|2008|9|30
(see release history)
Format = Airplay, CD single, digital download
Recorded = 2008
Genre = R&B, electropop, hip hop
Length = 3:54 (Radio edit)
4:30 (Album version)
Label = LaFace/Jive
Writer = Ciara Harris, Faheem Najm, APlus
Producer = T-Pain
Certification =
Chronology = Ciara singles
Last single = "Stepped on My J'z"
(2008)
This single = "Go Girl"
(2008)
Next single =
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = T-Pain singles
Type = singles
Last single = "Can't Believe It"
(2008)
This single = "Go Girl"
(2008)
Next single = "Go Hard"
(2008)

"Go Girl" is a song performed by American R&B/pop singer Ciara. The song was recorded for her third studio album "Fantasy Ride", which is set for release in December 2008.(August 19, 2008). [http://www.rap-up.com/?p=7664 Exclusive: Ciara Taps T-Pain For First Single] "Rap-Up". Accessed September 8, 2008] It is a female empowerment anthem that preaches control, featuring semi-auto-tune vocals and a mid-tempo beat.Cite news |last=Vena|first=Jocelyn |title=Ciara Invites T-Pain, Ne-Yo, Missy Elliott Aboard Her Fantasy Ride |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1596581/20081008/ciara.jhtml |date=October 08, 2008 |work=MTV News |accessdate=2008-10-08]

Released as the first single from the album, "Go Girl" was released worldwide to digital outlets on September 30, 2008. The song garnered mixed reviews from music critics.

Production

"Go Girl" was originally written by T-Pain and rewritten with Ciara. Also, it features T-Pain. According to BET's Access Granted, LaFace A&R executive Mark Pitts asked T-Pain to write and produce tracks for Ciara's third album "Fantasy Ride". T-Pain had several top ten hits and collaborated with Chris Brown's U.S. number one single, "Kiss Kiss". "I enjoyed the whole process" said Ciara, while on the "Go Girl" music video set. T-Pain said on the video set, "The record came together basically with me and Ciara working for days in the studio, and we got pressured to ... make a song." It is the only song they finished recording.

The demo recording of "Go Girl" titled, "Hood Girl" leaked on the internet in mid-August 2008. It contains alternate lyrics and limits T-Pain's vocals.

ingle release

"Go Girl" was not originally the first single intended from "Fantasy Ride". Two other songs "High Price" and "Work" from the album were contenders as the lead single.

In the United States, "Go Girl" was solicited to New York radio station Hot 97 on September 2, 2008. Two days later, the song was posted on Ciara's official MySpace page. Without an official release, the song began to gain radio airplay. On September 30, 2008, "Go Girl" was released in the worldwide as a digital download.

Chart performance

According to Mediabase "Go Girl" is having much success with radio airplay. The single is currently the most requested song on many Rhythmic and Urban radio stations. Currently the single has had more than 8000 spins in total. [ [http://www.mmr247.com/mmrweb/Reports/Reg/EMD.asp?SOngID=1603775&NumDays=7 Ciara "Go Girl" Radio Spins] "Mediabase". Accessed October 3, 2008]

"Go Girl" debuted at number sixty on the "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Currently, the song has peaked at number twenty-six on the chart. On October 11, 2008, the song made its "Billboard" Hot 100 debut at seventy-eight. The single debuted on the Rhythmic Top 40 at number thirty-eight.

Music video

Directed by Melina Matsoukas, the music video was shot on September 19 and September 20, 2008. The video begins with Ciara sitting in a chair at a desk with a typewriter and four female dancers behind her in chairs. T-Pain introduces the single as Ciara stands atop a desk. The scene portrays a workplace theme with a dark twist to it, the ceiling lights flash on and off rapidly. The color schemes are that of black, silver, and gray. She is dressed in a black suit and thigh-high black stiletto boots. As the first verse begins, Ciara quickly gets into the choreography (one scene shows her dancing alone and the other with her back-up dancers), she and her dancers later perform seductress-type choreography on the chairs during the first chorus. In the second verse, Ciara sashays with a model strut into an elevator. She gets in and erratic movements follow, as this shows her "transformation". She then exits the elevator, now dressed in her "Robo-Girl" suit, as she and her dancers then begin to make robotic movements and choreography during the second chorus. Shortly after, T-Pain performs his verse as he freestyles in similar robotic movement and pop-locking. The video subsequently cuts straight to Ciara sitting on her motorcycle spinning around as sparks shoot from the back. Next, the music video cuts to a dance break, calling all the "Go Girls" to the dance floor. Ciara, dressed in a hoodie, black shades, and knee-high silver stiletto boots, slides down a pole and starts performing breakdown choregraphy with several dancers. Collective choreography from different aspects of the video are then showed as the video nears its ending. The video concludes with Ciara typing "Go Girl" on the typewriter. The video version of the song also features different edits from the album version.

The music video for "Go Girl" premiered on BET's "Access Granted" and Yahoo! Music on October 7, 2008. The following day, the video premiered on BET's 106 & Park.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Go Girl".

;U.S. Promo CD(Released: September 2, 2008)
# "Go Girl" (Radio edit) – 3:54
# "Go Girl" (Clean) – 4:30
# "Go Girl" (Main) – 4:30
# "Go Girl" (Instrumental) – 4:26
# "Go Girl" (Acapella) – 4:20

;iTunes digital download(Released: September 30, 2008)
# "Go Girl" – 3:55

Charts

Release history

References

External links

* [http://www.ciaraworld.com/ Ciara's Official Website]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGqKsC3UGb4 YouTube: Official "Go Girl" music video]
* [http://www.ciaragoodies.co.uk/ Official UK Site]