Beggin' on Your Knees
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"Beggin' on Your Knees" | ||||
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Single by Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | ||||
from the album Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show | ||||
Released | April 1, 2011 | |||
Recorded | 2010 | |||
Studio | CMK Island Studios (Los Angeles, California) Maratome Studios (Stockholm, Sweden) MixStar Studios (Virginia Beach, Virginia) Westlake Studios (Los Angeles, California) | |||
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Length | 3:14 | |||
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"Beggin' on Your Knees" on YouTube |
"Beggin' on Your Knees" is a song performed by the Victorious cast featuring American singer
The song was met with generally positive reviews from critics, with the majority of them praising its message. "Beggin' on Your Knees" has currently charted on the
Background
"Beggin' on Your Knees" is the second single released from the soundtrack
The song was written by
Composition
"Beggin' on Your Knees" is an electro house song that contains influences of Hi-NRG, teen pop and dance-pop. The song runs through a dance-oriented beat and features a lighter sound than the preceding single, "Freak the Freak Out". The theme of this song is center around vengeance and coming of age. The lyrics are about a seeking vengeance on her boyfriend after learning of his relationship with another girl. Victoria Justice's vocal range spans almost two octaves from the low note of A3 to the high belted note of F5.
Critical reception
Jessica Dawson of Common Sense Media, the website that rates music for parents approval for children's listening, rated the song three out of five stars, praising its playful and child-friendly nature, while warning parents of the main message, commenting that "The lyrics are playful but could be construed as menacing: "You messed with me, and messed with her, so I'll make sure you get what you deserve" and "Watch your back, you don't know when or where I could get you.""[1] Joe DeAndrea of AbsolutePunk praised the song, along with "Freak the Freak Out", for its catchy nature, further commenting that "They will get stuck in your head and you'll probably feel a little ashamed, but no worries: it's the good type of ashamed! Like eating chocolate cake in a bathtub alone on a Friday night. But really, it's easier to accept it when you realize that the songs aren't all that worse than what is currently on the radio."[2] Bob Hoose and Steven Isaac of Plugged In Online, a site that rates music for children's listening, condemned the song for its objectionable content, mainly noting "the singer has payback schemes on her mind: "You mess with me/and messed with her/ … So watch your back/'Cause you don't know when or where I could get you/ … I'll have you crawlin' like a centipede.""[3]
Chart performance
"Beggin' on Your Knees" debuted at number 83 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the April 16, 2011 chart[4] and peaked at number 58 in the next week.[5]
Music video
The video was directed by Marcus Wagner. The video was shot at the pier, in the city of Santa Monica. In the video, Justice is a girl having fun with her friends at a carnival when she finds out that her boyfriend has cheated on her with another girl (Halston Sage). So, she watches her boyfriend, remembering the good times they had, looking for the right moment to confront him about his other girlfriend. In the end Justice decides to whisper in the other girl's ear, to tell her that the boyfriend is cheating and so both girls dump the boyfriend. Justice moves on and decides to forget the boyfriend and have fun.
Performances
On April 2, 2011, the day after the song was officially released as a single, Justice performed a short version of the song in the "Countdown to Kids' Choice", shown one hour before the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards.
The song was also performed on the season two premiere of Victorious, which also starred Halston Sage who appeared as Sadie.
Credits and personnel
- Victoria Justice – vocals
- Shellback – songwriting, production, recording, programming, instrumentation
- Savan Kotecha – songwriting
- Kristian Lundin – production, recording
- Serban Ghenea – mixing
- John Hanes – engineering
- Tim Roberts – assistant engineering
Credits are taken from Victorious liner notes.[6]
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- ^ Dawson, Jessica. ""Beggin' on Your Kees" – (CD Single)". Common Sense Media, Inc. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ DeAndrea, Joe. "Victorious Cast featuring Victoria Justice – Victorious – Album Review". AbsolutePunk. AbsolutePunk, LLC. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ Hoose, Bob. "Victorious:Music From the Hit TV Show". Plugged In Online. Focus on the Family. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ Billboard.com Top 100 Music Charts The week of April 16, 2011". Accessed 26 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Victoria Justice Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ Victorious (liner notes). Victorious and Victoria Justice. United States: Columbia. 2011.
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- ^ "Kid Digital Song Sales - Year-End | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 29, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
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