Get Sexy

"Get Sexy"
Song

"Get Sexy" is an electropop song by British pop band Sugababes, written by Phillip Lawrence, Ari Levine, and Bruno Mars and produced by American production outfit the Smeezingtons (Lawrence and Mars) for the group's seventh studio album, Sweet 7 (see 2009 in music). The song is the album's opening track, and was released as its lead single in August 2009. It features an interpolation of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy", composed by Christopher Fairbrass, Richard Fairbrass, and Robert Manzoli. The song will be the first to be released in the United States since 2004's "Hole in the Head".

Release and reception

The single premiered on BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills Show on July 7, 2009. During the show's interview, the Sugababes revealed that the song was produced by The Smeezingtons who have also worked with The X Factor winner Alexandra Burke on her upcoming debut album.

"Get Sexy" was released digitally on August 30 2009 and will be released physically the following day in the UK. The song entered the A List on BBC Radio 1's coveted playlist almost a month before its release.

The single has had a generally positive critical reception. Music website Popjustice, after having featured it as their "Song of the Day" on July 8, described it as a "punchy, explosive pop single which, while not being quite as adventurous as it thinks it is, could never be described as pedestrian". NME were equally positive about the Sugababes' comeback by claiming that it "knocks memories of the woeful "Girls" out of the way with its ridiculous, banging aggression". Digital Spy agreed in their review of thesingle by stating that it "is probably their most danceable single since 'Red Dress'" and that the Sugababes are "successfully repositioning themselves at the hip, urban end of modern pop. For a group now in its tenth year as a chart act, that's no mean feat". However, it also expressed criticism for the verses as "the rest of the track doesn't quite live up to that chorus".

On the 28th of August 2009, Get Sexy was released on the Irish iTunes and managed to peak at #1 on that same day. Due to strong pre orders of the Get Sexy EP on iTunes the song is currently at number 2 in the UK iTunes chart a day before the song's offical release.

Music video

The 'Babes dancing in the official video for "Get Sexy"

The video was directed by Emil Nava, brother of Jake Nava.. Ahead of its television premiere, the video was available to watch via Popjustice on July 30. The video features Amelle in a bird cage, Heidi in a house of mirrors shot at by intense light beams and Keisha posing on a couch. During the chorus' the girls can be seen in and through the walls of a triangular box with different coloured lights and standing together with chains around their wrists tying them together. The video ends with the Sugababes in a room covered in graffiti.

Popjustice praised the video claiming that it "seems to feature Sugababes 3.0 as 'the full package', and makes sense of this lineup, for the first time. This is a good thing."

Charts Performance

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Big Top 40 Show	3
iTunes UK	2
iTunes Ireland	2

Formats and track listings

UK CD Single

1. "Get Sexy" (Single Version)
2. "Get Sexy" (Max Sanna & Steve Pitron Mix)
3. "Get Sexy" (Bitrocka Remix)
4. "Get Sexy" (Superbass Vocal Mix)

Digital Download

1. "Get Sexy" (Radio Edit)
2. "Get Sexy" (Max Sanna & Steve Pitron Mix)
3. "Get Sexy" (Bitrocka Remix)
4. "Get Sexy" (Superbass Vocal Mix)
5. "Get Sexy" (Haudoken! Remix) iTunes Exclusive

External links

• Sugababes official website