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"Pretty Girl Rock" is a mid-tempo [13] Pop and R&B song, [14] that incorporates an interpolation of "Just the Two of Us" by Grover Washington Jr. [3] The song makes use of heavy drums [15] and slinky piano and is built on bouncy R&B beats. [16]
Pretty Girl Rock" became Hilson's fifth top-fifteen R&B/Hip-Hop Songs hit. On December 27, 2010, the song entered the New Zealand Singles Chart at number twelve, and has since peaked at number eleven. [66] On January 22, 2011, it debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number fifty-three [67] and at number seventeen on the UK R&B Chart. [68]
Cash Box called "Rock and Roll Girls" a "pure rock celebration" and said that "Fogerty’s lead vocal is classic." [8] Rolling Stone Magazine critic Kurt Loder praised "Rock and Roll Girls" as "a rather spectacular demonstration of what can still be done with three shitty chords and a blazing sax.” [9] The Age critic Mike Daily described it as having "the breezy appeal of a Buddy Holly song."
Clairo wrote and produced "Pretty Girl" using GarageBand and a small keyboard in about two hours. It is a bedroom pop, [7] [4] [8] and synth-pop [3] song inspired by 1980s pop music and written by Clairo about her feeling pressured to change her identity, silence herself, and conform to societal beauty standards for a past lover.
The lyrics identify with materialism, with Madonna asking for a rich and affluent life, and only wanting to date men who can offer her this. Contemporary critics have frequently identified "Material Girl" along with "Like a Virgin" as the songs that established Madonna as an icon. "Material Girl" was a commercial success, reaching the top-five ...
Pretty Girls Make Graves is a post-hardcore [2] band formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths' song of the same name (which itself was named after a quote from Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums). [3]
"All You Pretty Girls" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1984 album The Big Express. It peaked at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart, and its music video cost £33,000 to make. [1] Partridge remembers that song came about while he was "dicking around, playing some Hendrix. ... I was just playing ...
"She's a Beauty" is a song by American rock band the Tubes, released in 1983 on their album Outside Inside. Co-written by Fee Waybill, producer David Foster and Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, the song was inspired by Waybill's experience at a red light district in San Francisco. The music was largely written by Foster, who was also the source ...