Hollaback Girl
by
Gwen Stefani
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single
First released:
Jun 21 2005

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"Hollaback Girl" is a song written by singer Gwen Stefani and Pharrell for Stefani's debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. As part of Stefani's vision of creating "a silly dance record" the song is influenced by 1980s dance and pop music. They wrote the song as a response to Courtney Love's statement that Stefani was a "cheerleader" in an interview with Seventeen magazine.

The song was released as the album's third single in early 2005 (see 2005 in music) and was one of the year's most popular songs, peaking inside the top ten on the majority of the charts it entered. It reached number one in Australia and the United States, where it became the first digital download to sell one million copies. "Hollaback Girl" received many award nominations, including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year at the 48th Grammy Awards, yet it divided pop music critics. The CD single has a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" label, while the album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby., does not.

The song was listed at #180 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s.

Hollaback Girl is 41st most popular song of the decade according to Billboard Magazine.

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5 stars B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
Gwen shot to fame with pop-ska band No Doubt, however this song is nothing like the material she released with that band. It may be called pop but in fact it is hip-hop. Firstly because it is produced by The Neptunes (renowned hip-hop producers), and secondly because it uses a rap like chorus. So obviously everything points to the fact of its generical origins.

On to the song, this song will instanly remind those 80's obsessors about "Mickey" by Toni Basil and rightly so! It has the same cheerl…
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3 stars "Hollaback" is the hit of 2005
This is what I consider to be the "breakthrough pop single of the year". "Hollaback Girl" is one of only seven, count 'em, seven songs to go to #1 on the U.S. charts this year.

"Hollaback" set the record for becoming the #1 most downloaded song ever and the first to pass the million mark. Speaking of which - you might be better off doing a digital download of this single then getting this CD single. The so-called "mixes" on here aren't worth the price of the single. The only reason to get this …
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Track listing Edit

  • CD

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    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Hollaback Girl (radio edit)
    3:23
    2
    Hollaback Girl (album version)
    3:21
    3
    Hollaback Girl (instrumental)
    3:21

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Hollaback Girl 3 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Interscope Records
catalog number: 88232
release dates: Jun 21 2005 in Germany
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Hollaback Girl 3 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Jun 21 2005
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