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“ Fuck You “ ( stylized as “ Fuck You! “ or “ F**k You! “ ), known as “ Forget You “ or “ FU “ for the clean versions, is a song by american recording artist CeeLo Green. It was written as a collaboration among park, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Bruno Mars, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the Smeezingtons, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and Brody Brown, [ 3 ] and produced by the Smeezingtons. It was released on August 19, 2010, as the first single from Green ‘s third solo studio album, The Lady Killer ( 2010 ). “ Fuck You ” received applaud from music critics, and was an international commercial success, making the top-10 in thirteen countries, including topping charts in the United Kingdom, and count two on the Billboard Hot 100.
inspiration [edit ]
In an consultation with NME, Green said that, in summation to being about grief, the song was besides about the music diligence itself. [ 2 ]
Versions [edit ]
several versions of “ Fuck You ” have been released. The adaptation of the song edited to remove curse, which is broadcast in the music video recording on UK television stations, and played on US radio, is called “ Forget You ”, while the UK radio edit is entitled “ FU ”. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] All three versions differ in lyric content, with “ Fuck You ” being completely uncensored, “ Forget You ” replacing the profanity with audio effects ( besides changing “ sleep together you ” to “ forget you ” per the title ), and “ FU ” replacing them by editing them out wholly and leaving blank spaces, and changing “ sleep together you ” to an exact pronunciation of “ F you ”. All three versions can be found on iTunes and both “ Fuck You ” and “ Forget You ” are included in an extend bet, which features the music video and lyric television, and was released on August 19, 2010, [ 6 ] whereas “ FU ” was not released until September 21. [ 7 ] A fourth version of the sung, featuring american knocker 50 cent, was released to iTunes. The adaptation was entitled “ Fuck You ( Heartbreaker ) ! “, and was released only in America. The television for this version of the sung incorporates scenes from the original video with excess shots of 50 Cent acting. CeeLo performed a remix of the sung, featuring an all-female backing band named “ Scarlet Fever “, on The Colbert Report on November 9, 2010. The remix was entitled “ Fuck You ( Fox News ) ”. The first full verse of the song was a satirical spoof of Fox News controversies. [ 8 ] A fifth version of the song, entitled “ Thank You ”, was released on May 9, 2011. The song was re-written with raw lyrics as a protection to firefighters. The lyrics mention that Cee Lo ‘s mother was a fireman. A fresh version of the video was released with scenes of Cee Lo visiting a ardor post. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
music video [edit ]
initially, a lyric television for “ Fuck You ” was released to YouTube on August 19, 2010, [ 11 ] featuring energizing typography, with the lyrics of the song appearing on different colored backgrounds with film grain overlie on the video. The lapp thing was done in the german and spanish versions of the television, translating the lyrics, although the vocals remained in English. The official music television was released on September 1, 2010. [ 12 ] The video recording was directed by Matt Stawski and was filmed at Cadillac Jack ‘s, a movie airplane propeller diner located in the Sun Valley area of Los Angeles. [ 12 ] Taking place in a dining car, the video chronicles Cee Lo ‘s misadventures with a girl he has a oppress on, known as “ The Heartbreaker ” throughout the video recording. In the get down, a young Cee Lo goes into the dining car with his parents and goes up to the Heartbreaker, who is sitting with another son. He offers to let the Heartbreaker act with his toy dog drivel truck, but she ignores him and walks away with the early male child, who has a toy Ferrari F40. In his gamey school years, Cee Lo works at the dining car as a dishwasher. He attempts to woo the Heartbreaker with a bouquet of flowers but slips on fries measuredly dropped by another son. The flowers fly out of his hand and kingdom on a much younger girl ‘s lap. During his college years, Cee Lo studies in the diner with another woman implied to be his music tutor. He then attempts to woo the Heartbreaker by having the waitress draw a cordate catsup notice on her hot frump plate, but the Heartbreaker approaches him with a basket of fries and spills them on his shirt, leaving a big catsup stain on it. Cee Lo then goes through an epiphany in his life and the video fast-forwards to the present day, when Cee Lo is now known as “ The Lady Killer ” and has a fancy Cadillac Eldorado with his backup singers in the back seat. He drives past the diner to find the Heartbreaker working there, sweeping the front entrance while others are dancing behind her. Cee Lo waves at the Heartbreaker before driving away. The final examination dart is of him waving at the television camera and the words “ The Lady Killer ” appearing on screen, before the shot freezes, therefore ending the video. The radio edit translation of the video contains re-shot elements that have been mixed with parts from the original, most notably when Cee Lo is on screen and he is singing option lyrics, but he is not shown singing the clean lyrics in the titular chorus. Some parts of the video tend to freeze for a schism moment when a bowdlerized lyric is being mouthed to prevent the lips from being read. At the start of the explicit version and clean translation titled FU, the beget of the young Cee Lo Green can be seen to look identical shock and taps him on the shoulder to make him turn around when he first swears. This does not happen in the clean adaptation titled Forget You .
commercial operation [edit ]
In the US, “ Fuck You ” debuted at No. 69 on Hot Digital Songs and No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100. [ 13 ] The song in the first place peaked at number 9 in 2010, but following Cee Lo ‘s performance of the birdcall at the 53rd Grammy Awards, “ Fuck You ” had a revival in popularity and climbed back up the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching No. 2 in its 26th chart week ( making it one of the slowest climb ever into the number 2 position ) tying it with Cee Lo ‘s previous 2006 strike “ crazy “ from his musical duet project Gnarls Barkley as his highest-charting single. The sung remained at No. 2 for four straight weeks. [ 14 ] In all, the single spend a sum of 48 weeks on the Hot 100. It was certified Gold on November 5, 2010. [ 15 ] The week of March 24, 2011, the song was the best-selling song in the USA of 2011, having been sold 1,865,000 times in 2011 only, despite the song never reaching No. 1 and being released in August 2010. [ 16 ] In the subsequent week, the song surpassed 2 million copies in sales in 2011 entirely, bringing its sum to 3,707,000 copies. [ 17 ] The week of April 16, 2011, the song topped the Pop Songs radio airplay chart in its 25th week, completing the longest journey to the acme in the ranking ‘s 18-year history. [ 18 ] “ Fuck You ” would go on to parcel the record with Demi Lovato ‘s 2012 single “ Give Your Heart a Break “ before it was finally broken by Alessia Cara ‘s “ here “ in 2016. [ 19 ] As of April 2013, “ Fuck You ” had sold over 6 million copies in the U.S. [ 20 ]
critical reception [edit ]
“ fuck You ” received acclaim from music critics. Jason Lipshutz from Billboard gave “ Fuck You ” a positivist review express, “ it ‘s a cheery as a ’60s Motown hit and arsenic expletive-laden as an early Eminem song, a combination that fits the singer ‘s sky-high vocals and upbeat feel of humor well. Over a flash piano credit line, bumping sea bass and steady percussion, Green shakes off a fail relationship with a gold digger by packing the simple pleasures of old-school soul music into banteringly verses and a appropriately soaring chorus. ” [ 21 ] Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars writing : “ As its entitle suggests, ‘Fuck You ‘ is basically a middle finger extending from the fist of a pop single—and a gloriously catchy Motown stamper of a pop single at that. ” [ 22 ] Alexandra Patsavas, music supervisor for the “ Twilight ” films, praised Mars ‘ ability to veer between “ a beautifully crafted pop song finely sung ” and the likes of Cee-Lo ‘s “ Fuck You ”. “ How exalted that an artist can travel so fluidly between temper and earnestness, ” she remarked. [ 23 ]
Accolades [edit ]
At the 53rd Grammy Awards, “ Fuck You ” was nominated for criminal record of the year and Song of the Year, and won Best Urban/Alternative Performance. The video was besides nominated for Best Short Form Music Video. [ 24 ] It was named the # 1 song of 2010 by Time, and made the top of Metacritic ‘s users poll. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Spin and The Village Voice ‘s Pazz & Jop critics ‘ poll named “ Fuck You ” the best single of 2010. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 112 on its list “ 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years ”. [ 27 ]
live performances [edit ]
Cee Lo toured with an all-female back isthmus named Scarlet Fever, performing “ Fuck You ” on Taratata, at the Reeperbahn Festival, Later… with Jools Holland, Late Show with David Letterman, the 31st annual Children in Need telethon, the Christmas edition of BBC One chart show Top of the Pops, Saturday Night Live and many other venues. Cee Lo besides performed at the 53rd Grammy Awards on February 13, 2011, with actress Gwyneth Paltrow and several puppets provided by The Jim Henson Company. Two days late, he sang at the 2011 BRIT Awards alongside UK singer Paloma Faith. On August 14, Cee Lo sing at WWE ‘s 2011 Summerslam pay-per-view event in Los Angeles with the addition of WWE Divas dancing to “ Fuck You ” at the event ‘s venue.
track listings [edit ]
CD single
Maxi-single
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Digital single [ 29 ] [ 30 ]
12-inch vinyl single
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Credits and personnel [edit ]
Mixing and mastering
- Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios, Hollywood, California; mastered at Sterling Sound, New York, New York; engineered at Levcon Studios, Hollywood, California.
Personnel
- Songwriting – Cee Lo Green, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine
- Production – The Smeezingtons
- Mixing – Manny Marroquin
- Assistant – Christian Plata, Erik Madrid
- Mastering – Chris Gehringer
- Engineer – Ari Levine
- All instruments– Ari Levine, Bruno Mars, Brody Brown
Credits adapted from [ vague ] the liner notes of The Lady Killer, Elektra Records
Charts and certifications [edit ]
Release history [edit ]
| Region | Date | Format | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | August 19, 2010 | CD single | Elektra |
| United Kingdom | October 4, 2010[89] |
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