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==Track listing==
==Track listing==
;''Invasion of I Gotta Feeling'' - Megamix E.P.<ref name="Megamix EP"/>
;''Invasion of I Gotta Feeling'' - Megamix E.P.<ref name="Megamix EP">[http://blackeyedpeas.dipdive.com/news/9089/ Dipdive], retrieved 2009-09-15.</ref>
Released: September 15, 2009
Released: September 15, 2009
# "I Gotta Feeling (David Guetta's FMIF Remix)" &ndash; 6:12
# "I Gotta Feeling (David Guetta's FMIF Remix)" &ndash; 6:12

Revision as of 06:10, 15 September 2009

"I Got a Feeling" redirects here. For the Beatles' song, see I've Got a Feeling. For the Eagles of Death Metal song, see I Gotta Feelin (Just Nineteen).
"I Gotta Feeling"
Song

"I Gotta Feeling" is a song by the group Black Eyed Peas and their second official single from their fifth studio album The E.N.D.[4] The song was first debuted on May 21, 2009.[5] The song was produced by acclaimed French house DJ David Guetta, who makes a cameo appearance in the music video (2:20) (next to Kid Cudi). "I Gotta Feeling" debuted at number two behind the group's own "Boom Boom Pow" on the week of June 27, 2009, on both the Canadian and Billboard Hot 100 charts, making the group one of only eleven artists who have occupied the top two positions at the same time on the Billboard Hot 100.

On June 26, 2009, they premiered the song in the UK on T4 Music in late May 2009 and on the talk show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which aired on channel 4 on June 28, 2009. The song played during the opening for the Miss Universe 2009 TV broadcast.

A remix edit by David Guetta appears on his latest album, One Love.

Writing and inspiration

On Dipdive, while premiering "I Gotta Feeling" and cover artwork, underneath both, will.i.am posted of the topics related in the song:[4]

this song is dedicated to everyone who is getting ready to go out...

its the song to listen to when you drive to the club or party...

its the song to listen to after a long day or week at work...

its the song to that makes me wanna throw my stress away...

the song to listen to when you're about to spark up...

Music structure

It is set in common time and is composed in the key of G major with a moderate tempo of 128 beats per minute.[6] The group's vocal range spans from G3 to A5.[6]

Critical reception

Billboard gave the song a positive review: "The Black Eyed Peas proved with their massive international chart-topper "Boom Boom Pow" that they're a group still to be reckoned with. The official follow-up single "I Gotta Feeling" may be their most mainstream release yet. Over a pop-throbbing beat, courtesy of the famed club hitmaker David Guetta, the Peas trade off on a simple, yet effective melody and message: "Tonight's gonna be a good night." Having already shown what they can do at the peak of a party, now they're out to prove they can get it started even earlier".[7]

Bill Lamb of About.com gave the song 4 out of 5 stars commenting on the feel-good mood, distinct change of pace for them, and that it is a great choice for summer but disregards the lack of musical or lyrical depth and the tiring use of Auto-Tune. Overall, he thinks that "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling" deliver contributions that make it obvious Black Eyed Peas are still a four-person group and that this is a hit.[8]

David Balls of Digital Spy gave the song 4 out of 5 stars:

Now, hot on the heels of the heavy Auto-Tune and futuristic synths of 'Boom Boom Pow', they're back with a single that's already made number one in Oz and the US. What's more, 'I Gotta Feeling' is every bit as quirky as its predecessor. Built around a sample from David Guetta's 'Love Is Gone', it begins in relatively restrained fashion before suddenly morphing into a throbbing rave-up... and proceeds to flit between tempos for the rest of its five-minute duration. A bit like Girls Aloud's 'Biology', it's a random, rather barmy mish-mash of musical ideas that only really makes sense after a few listens, but there's no doubt the Peas still know how to get us dancing.[9]

Comedy website Cracked.com however, gave the song a rather scathing review, with Hate By Numbers host Wayne Gladstone stating, "I don't care how many gangly superfluous band members you float in the air, at this point you need to start the song". This was in reference to the repetition of the chorus of 'tonight's gonna be a good night' for roughly a minute and a half. The review was scathing in its critique of excessive auto-tune, incredibly boring un-original lyrics, rhyming the same word with itself ("Up and "Up"), naming days of the week (which was seen as comparable to "Naming the Alphabet") and Jewish religious phrases being used out of context.[10]

  • PopMatters: I Gotta Feeling” is one of those dance tunes that’s impossible to hate thanks to something like good natured naïveté.[11]
  • Prefix Magazine: She’s almost the best part of “I Gotta Feeling” (the best is will.i.am saying “L'Chaim” in Auto-Tune like he’s a robotic Sammy Davis Jr.), which is probably going to be this album’s biggest hit thanks to its resolutely vacant vocals and sing-along potential (“I gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night” goes the chorus).[12]
  • Spin (magazine): On the single "I Gotta Feeling," you can almost hear the corporate scrilla changing hands in time to the indelible hook.[13]

Music video

File:Igottafeelinmv.jpg
A party scene showing Fergie and Will.i.am in the official music video for "I Gotta Feeling".

An unfinalized version of the music video was leaked on May 29, 2009.[14] The official final version was released on June 2 on Dipdive and on June 16 on iTunes.

There is both a censored version and an explicit version of the music video. The video first starts out with some scenes in Hollywood Blvd. Then it shows will.i.am combing his hair and Fergie putting on makeup wearing lingerie. It also shows Taboo and apl.de.ap getting ready for the party. Then it cuts to the party as the first verse starts. In the uncensored version, two women are kissing at the two minute mark, at which point the lyrics "Let's take it...off!" are heard, and a hand grabs the top of the dress of one of the women, and pulls it down, exposing her left breast. All members of the Black Eyed Peas are shown dancing. Later, they are dancing with their faces and hands painted with phosphorescent paint. The video ends with a large sign with human-sized letters that reads "The E.N.D." The censored version without the left breast is the only version available on iTunes.

The video is directed by Ben Mor of Little Minx and features guest appearances by David Guetta, Kid Cudi, Katy Perry, Chantal Jones and a few well-known personalities of the LGBT community, including Ongina of RuPaul's Drag Race fame.

Track listing

Invasion of I Gotta Feeling - Megamix E.P.[15]

Released: September 15, 2009

  1. "I Gotta Feeling (David Guetta's FMIF Remix)" – 6:12
  2. "I Gotta Feeling (Printz Board vs. Zuper Blahq Remix)" – 5:04
  3. "I Gotta Feeling (Laidback Luke Remix)" – 6:28
  4. "I Gotta Feeling (Zuper Blahq Remix)" – 5:48
  5. "I Gotta Feeling (Taboo's Broken Spanglish Remix)" – 4:51
Australian CD single[2]
  1. "I Gotta Feeling"
  2. "Boom Boom Guetta (David Guetta's Electro Hop Remix)"

Chart performance

"I Gotta Feeling" was the group's highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at number two. The song has so far sold 2,600,000+ digital downloads in the United States.[16] "I Gotta Feeling" ended the 12 week number-one run of the band's previous single "Boom Boom Pow", when it reached number one on the Hot 100 the chart week of July 11, 2009, their second single to do so. It makes the band only the fourth group to replace themselves at number one in the chart's history, following The Beatles, Boyz II Men, and OutKast, and the first to do it in the digital download era. "I Gotta Feeling" has remained #1 on the Hot 100 for eleven weeks so far, extending the band's run at number one on the Hot 100 to twenty three consecutive weeks, or five and a half months straight. The band broke the previous record for the most consecutive weeks an artist has ever spent at #1 on the Hot 100 of 19 weeks set by Usher in 2004 with four weeks more at no. 1.[17] The Black Eyed Peas are also just the fourth artist to have multiple songs spend ten weeks or more at #1 on the Hot 100. Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, and Santana are the only other artists to do this.[18]

Internationally, "I Gotta Feeling" has become one of the Peas' most successful singles of their career, topping the charts in over fifteen countries so far. It replaced "Boom Boom Pow" at number one on the Canadian Hot 100 and Australian ARIA Chart. In New Zealand the song debuted at number seven on June 15, 2009, reaching number one two weeks later, making the song their fifth number-one single in New Zealand. The song has so far spent nine consecutive weeks and number one, becoming their longest-running number one single there. It was certified Platinum after nine weeks, selling over 15,000 copies.[19]

In Ireland, on its third week on the chart "I Gotta Feeling" jumped from #18 to #2 with strong download sales, outpeaking their last single "Boom Boom Pow", which reached #3. The next week, it climbed to #1 giving them their fourth number-one single there.

In Spain, the single reached #5 in the official spanish singles chart by PROMUSICAE. The single has been certified Gold so far, with sales over 20,000 copies.

In the United Kingdom the song debuted at number seventy in June 2009 and entered the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart on the week ending July 11, 2009. It slowly worked its way up the chart and in its eighth week (August 2, 2009) it peaked at number one on downloads alone (with its physical release being August 10). Therefore giving the group their second consecutive number one hit from The E.N.D., their third number one overall and their ninth top ten hit in the country. On the same week it reached the summit of the UK singles chart, "I Gotta Feeling" became the new number one on the UK R&B Chart. Although it was knocked of the number one spot of the UK Singles Chart the following week, it regained it's position at #1 on August 16 marking the Black Eyed Peas second (and consecutive) song to have had two separate runs at number one, and one of only six songs to have managed the feat in the 21st century (including "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow").[20] In the UK, the single has now sold 463,950 copies, becoming the 6th best selling single of 2009, with ' Boom Boom Pow' still gaining at number 4 in the same top 20.[21] Still holding strong in the UK Top 10 Singles, I Gotta Feeling could well go on to outsell Boom Boom Pow.

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[22] 1
Austrian Singles Chart[23] 1
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[24] 1
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)[25] 1
Canadian Hot 100[26] 1
Danish Singles Chart[27] 1
Dutch Top 40[28] 1
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles[29] 1
Finnish Singles Chart[30] 7
French Digital Singles Chart[31] 1
German Singles Chart[32] 3
Irish Singles Chart[33] 1
Israeli Singles Chart 1[citation needed]
Italian Singles Chart[34] 1
Japan Hot 100[35] 4
New Zealand Singles Chart[36] 1
Norwegian Singles Chart[37] 2
Slovak Singles Chart[38] 1
Spanish Singles Chart[39] 5
Swedish Singles Chart 1
Swiss Singles Chart[40] 1
Turkey Top 20 Chart[41] 3
UK Singles Chart[42] 1
UK R&B Chart[43] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[44] 1
U.S. Billboard Pop Songs[45] 1

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart number-one single
June 29, 2009 – August 31, 2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
June 29, 2009 – August 17, 2009 		Succeeded by
Canadian Hot 100 number-one single
July 4, 2009 – 		Incumbent
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
July 11, 2009 –
Preceded by Irish Singles Chart number-one single
July 16, 2009 –
Preceded by
"Never Leave You" by Tinchy Stryder ft. Amelle Berrabah 		UK Singles Chart number-one single
August 2, 2009 - August 8, 2009 (first run)
August 16, 2009 - August 22, 2009 (second run) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Never Leave You" by Tinchy Stryder ft. Amelle Berrabah 		UK R&B Chart number-one single
August 2, 2009 - August 8, 2009 (first run)
August 16, 2009 -(second run) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Top 40 number-one hits
August 8, 2009 - 22 August, 2009 		Succeeded by
Mi Rowsu(Tuintje In Mijn Hart) by Damaru & Jan Smit
Preceded by Israeli Singles Chart number-one hits
August 20, 2009 - 27 August, 2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia) number-one single
August 1, 2009 - 		Incumbent

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  9. ^ David Balls. Black Eyed Peas - "I Gotta Feeling" Digital Spy. Accessed July 29, 2009.
  10. ^ Gladstone. Black Eyed Peas Have Officially Written The Worst Song Ever Cracked.com. Accessed August 3, 2009.
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