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OK, got it!This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, drink in hand
Lost my discretion
It's not what, I'm used to
Just wanna try you on
I'm curious for you
Caught my attention
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chapstick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it
No, I don't even know your name
It doesn't matter,
You're my experimental game
Just human nature,
It's not what,
Good girls do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it,
Us girls we are so magical
Soft skin, red lips, so kissable
Hard to resist so touchable
Too good to deny it
Ain't no big deal, it's innocent
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
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How do you get a girl to like youBy James PatersonWHO'S THAT GIRL
&How can you get a girl to like you? She is the girl of your dreams,every time you see her your heart skips a beat, every thought in your head is about her, you make small scenario's in your head, taking her out, walking hand in hand with her ,talking and laughing with her and even kissing her. The problem is that you don't even know her name,you have never even spoken to her,so how are you going to get her to like you?.There are no hard fast rules when it comes to getting someone to like you, you can try as hard as you like but no matter what everyone is different and everyone has different tastes,she may be the girl of your dreams but you might not even feature in hers. You can't force someone to like you nor can you buy affection from a person,a person will either like you or they wont.Get Her To Notice You TooThe first thing to do is to try and get her to notice you too,if you are passing her in the street smile as you pass and say hi,of course don't make a nuisance of yourself by walking past her every 2 minutes,just in passing, give it a couple of days of saying hi once or twice a day in passing and then the next time you pass pretend to notice something at the other side of the street just as you are passing and see if she says hi to you first.it sounds silly but if she says hi it means she has noticed you.Start a ConversationNow that you know that she has noticed you it's time to start a conversation with her.The next time you pass her on the street after she has initiated the hi, smile and say hi as per usual let her walk past then turn and say &excuse me& when she turns ask her a question pertaining to the street you are in i.e & Do you know where such and such shop is&?.after that try to get into a conversation.Ask Her OutAsking a girl out can go either of 2 ways she will either say yes or no, no doesn't mean yes but sometimes no can mean maybe,if the answer no is followed by &I can't tonight& or what ever night you chose to ask her out on, because &I have to be somewhere else&, is an opening to ask about a different night. but if she says &no im washing my hair that night& or something similar to that it means that she really isn't interested in going out with you and it is time to move on.Advice from a girl to help boys ask them outHow to ask a girl out. Dating advice for boys from a girl who knows.HubpagesYou to could write stories on hubpages and make a little extra money,sign up is free and it only takes about a minute
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"What It Feels Like for a Girl" is a song by
singer-songwriter , taken from her eighth studio album
(2000). The song was released as the third single from the album on April 17, 2001 by , with two other versions being also released: a -remix produced by
and a Spanish version titled Lo Que Siente La Mujer. It was written by Madonna,
and , who was credited later, while production was handled by Madonna, Sigsworth and . Lyrically, it conveys society's
toward women, addressing hurtful myths about female inferiority. To emphasize the message, the song opens with a spoken word sample of
from the movie .
The song received acclaim from most music critics, who agreed it was a highlight from the album, while also remarking that the song was one of her most mature musical ventures of her career. Commercially, "What It Feels Like for a Girl" was successful in most music charts around the world, peaking in the top ten in countries including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Japan and the United Kingdom. Though it was a more low peak on the US , peaking at number 23, it managed to achieve success on component charts in the United States, topping the US
An accompanying music video for the song was filmed by Madonna's then-husband
and premiered on March 22, 2001. It features Madonna in a blonde bob wig as she was portraying a reckless woman on a crime spree. The video was criticized for its depiction of violence and abuse, which caused
to ban it before 9pm. The single was also released on
containing the music video. The song was used as a video interlude and was performed in Spanish on the . The song was also covered by the Fox TV series , which was commercially featured on the episode "", as well as the following EP.
In September 1999, it was announced that Madonna had reteamed with producer
for a possible follow-up to her Grammy-winning, multiplatinum 1998 album , according to the singer's spokesperson. Madonna was also signed to be on the movie "", also contributing to its soundtrack. In January 2000, Madonna announced that she was going to experiment with electronica on her then-upcoming album and was said to be venturing into the popular European dance style known as . The next month, Madonna released a cover of 's "" as a single to the soundtrack of "The Next Best Thing", while in April 2000, it was announced that French musician
was creating a melding of dance and pop songs with a disco feel for the album. Later, it was also announced that she added
to work with her on the album.
Sigsworth created a demo backing track that was finished enough to impress, but not so finished as to restrict Madonna's freedom to write over the top of it. According to him, "What It Feels Like For a Girl" was done very quickly. "I sent her a backing track, and she wrote a top line to it, we put it together and four days later we had a record. And what was kind of good for me was that we decided on day one that we liked all the noises I'd already used on the demo, and it was more a matter of repositioning them in the arrangement around M's top line. So the whole job, apart from recording the voice, was moving things around in ," he claimed. He remarked that he sent her two sketches and that she chose the more unusual one. "And at the start of it, I put this sample from a movie of the actress . I just knew that M would fall in love with that, and she did," he declared.
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"What It Feels Like For a Girl" was written by Madonna and , while production was done by Madonna, Sigsworth, and .
was included as an additional composer to the track, after Madonna found out Sigsworth had sampled Torn's
album. The song is set in the
of , with Madonna's vocals spanning from the lower octave of
to the higher note of . Jose F. Promis considers the song a "semi-ballad". Lyrically, "What It Feels Like for a Girl" condemns male chauvinism by addressing hurtful myths about female inferiority, with Madonna commenting on female role-playing in society. The beginning of the song opens with a dialogue from the 1993 British film, , directed by
and starring his niece, . In the dialogue, Gainsbourg says:
"Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots. 'Cause it's OK to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. 'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading. But secretly you'd love to know what it's like... Wouldn't you? What it feels like for a girl."
Later, the song is build from a groovy verse section, driven by a "cool beat" and filtered bass licks, towards a dreamy chorus washed over by tidal keys and pads, as noted by Edward Cheung from . "Strong inside but you don't know it / Good little girls they never show it / When you open up your mouth to speak / Could you be a little weak?", she sings. 's Phil Dellio found the song "the perfect answer record to
(where boys indeed stand on the side of the street looking uncomprehendingly on girls), thanks in no small part to the gossamer-like synthesizer percolating in the background.
Above & Beyond produced the official remix of the track.
Planned to be the album's second single, "What It Feels Like For a Girl" was eventually released as the album's third single on April 17, 2001. Two new versions of the song were released to further promote the track. The first was a
version of the song titled Lo Que Siente la Mujer, especially recorded for inclusion on the single as its
and eventually released as a promo-only single in . Later it was added to the two-disc Tour Edition of Music and the Bonus Track edition of the album in some territories. The second was a
version created by , which was also dubbed as the single's version as well as being featured in its music video and the song's . The CD single also features a remix produced by British DJ , which transformed the song into "a massive, deep arena club stomper," as noted by 's Jose F. Promis.
The acclaimed remixing duo
was hired to do a remix of "What It Feels Like for a Girl". However, when they were almost finishing the mix, it was rejected because someone renamed an amateur remix of the song as "Thunderpuss Mix" and spread it on the internet. The label thought the remix was leaked from Thunderpuss studio, after an employee claimed that he saw the Thunderpuss remix in rotation on the internet already. Barry Harris of Thunderpuss claimed in an interview for
that the situation "started this fire within the record company and Madonna, and we were like 'no, it's not our mix', we have not done anything. They just cancelled our entire mix, period, and that was it, the end of story."
Madonna performing "Lo Que Siente la Mujer", the Spanish version of "What It Feels Like for a Girl", during her
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" received acclaim from most music critics.
in his review for
picked the song as one of the album's highlights, calling it a "terrific midtempo cut", Larry Flick of
considered the song "a hook-laden midtempo jam." In a separate review, Chuck Taylor also of Billboard named the song "one of the more substantive - and mature - musical ventures of her career," while panning its remix version for "reduc[ing] the song to a mindless trickle of beats without any hints of the verses. Sal Cinquemani of
observed that on the track Madonna exposes her soul, while Barry Walters of
wrote that the song is "as musically gentle as it is lyrically barbed." Garry Crossing of
labeled it a "tender, sensitive, flirtatious, sexy and oddly vulnerable-feeling ode to the female perspective." Regis D'Angiolini of
praised the track, calling it "one of Madonna's best songs in recent years, thanks to a catchy refrain, keyboard hook, and clever lyrics."
While naming it "a big, warm, soulful jacuzzi of a song," Danny Eccleston of
picked the song as a standout track and claimed that the song has "the vaguest melodic echo of ’s terrific ''." Cynthia Funchs of
picked the song as her favorite on the album, calling it "outstanding" with "sweet, enchanted beats." David Browne of
noted that the song is "an older, wiser , and it's a beautiful keeper," but went on to call the track "a muted sparkler with a softly padding beat and genuinely empathetic lyrics about teenagers." While reviewing her compilation , Sal Cinquemani of Slant perceived that the track was "largely lost amid the conventional sonics of Music's final single," writing that it "is GHV2's least dynamic offering," grading the song "C-". However, Charlotte Robinson of PopMatters disagreed, claiming that the inclusion of the song, along with "Don't Tell Me", represented nicely that Music was another triumph. In 2013 Scott Kearnan of
included the track at number twenty-six on his list of "30 Ultimate Madonna Singles." In his review of the song Kearnan wrote "Madonna’s covered plenty of ground about how women are treated in the world, but she’s rarely this unfiltered." Louis Virtel of
included the song on his list of "The 100 Greatest Madonna Songs," commenting that the song's "tenderness and power resonated like no Madonna ballad since ''.” Mark Graham of
placed the song at number 34 on his list of "53 Favorite Madonna Songs", in honor of Madonna's 53rd birthday.
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" debuted at number 73 on the U.S.
edition of May 5, 2001, moving to number 46 the following week. The song peaked at number 23 on the May 19, 2001 edition, becoming that week's greatest gainer/sales. On the same week, it topped the
chart. According to her official website, "it would have gone higher on the Billboard Hot 100 had there been a traditional commercial single release - and therefore more sales points to move it up the chart. However, only a maxi-single was issued, hence its rather middling chart placement." Elsewhere, "What It Feels Like for a Girl" was successful. In the , the song managed to be the third song from Music to peak inside the top-ten, reaching number 7 on April 28, 2001. In , the song debuted and peaked at number 6, on May 6, 2001. It was certified
The song was also very successful in , peaking at number four, in , where it peaked at number two, and in , where it topped the
chart on April 21, 2000. It debuted at number 50 on the , until it rose to number 15, on May 27, 2000. However, in some countries, "What It Feels Like for a Girl" failed to reach the top-twenty. In
and , the song reached numbers 26 and 22, respectively, becoming her lowest-charting single since "" (1999) in both countries. In , the song debuted and peaked at number 40 on the , until descending several times on the charts.
Madonna's former husband, British director , directed the music video for the song.
A music video for the song was directed by Madonna's then-husband, filmmaker
in February 2001 and filmed throughout various parts of , including one location on W. Olympic Blvd and S. Wooster St. The video uses the dance remix version of the song, produced by Above & Beyond, instead of the album's original version. According to Madonna, the video "shows my character acting out a fantasy and doing things girls are not allowed to do," she said in a written statement distributed by her record label, . "This is an angry song and I wanted a matching visual with an edgy dance mix." It premiered on
TV channel, on March 22, 2001, but was banned from TV broadcasts in many parts of the world, including the most famous
and , due to its violent content. It was only aired on MTV and VH1 just once time, during a news segment at a more mature hour of 11:30 p.m. ET. While the video failed to air on both networks, Madonna released it as a
on April 24, 2001, becoming the biggest-selling DVD single of 2001. According to the Andrew Morton, writer of the book Madonna, the video is "entirely consistent with the themes that she has been exploring for the last twenty years, namely the relationship between the sexes, the ambiguity of gender, and the unresolved conflict, for women in a patriarchal society of being fully female and sexual while exercising control over their lives."
The scene where
and the elderly woman she picks up from the Ol Kuntz Guest Home in the music video was deemed controversial.
As stated by Eden Miller of , the music video for "What It Feels Like for a Girl" opens with Madonna in a motel room, getting ready for a night out, which was seen as "simple and pleasant" enough. The video takes its first turn when Madonna picks up an old woman to accompany her in her drive around the city, and it quickly changes from there. Madonna rams her
into a car full of young men who were looking at her suggestively. From here, she tasers a man at an
(ATM) and takes his money, pulls a realistic-looking water gun on two police officers and sprays them with water. After mowing down some roller-hockey players in a parking lot, she steals another car and blows up a gas station, all while still accompanied by the old woman. Finally, Madonna slams her stolen car into a cement pole in an apparent act of murder/suicide. Although having a vision of violence, "Madonna's violent acts in the video are either shown from a distance or take place off screen, and although ideas and events are clearly indicated, nothing graphic or gratuitous appears," as noted by Miller.
The music video was heavily criticized for being overly violent and graphic. Madonna's spokesperson said that there was a lot of violence because it tells the story of a woman who had probably been abused. Madonna also explained that her character was acting out a "fantasy and doing things that girls are not allowed to do." The video was received only early hours play on . However, it was not the first time that Madonna had a video rejected for heavy rotation by MTV, since in 1990, the channel refused to show "" because of its steamy images, and in 1992 MTV only showed "" late at night. The decision to ban the video was a source of argument, since it appeared to be no more violent than some television shows that aired at the time. Ironically, the video went into heavy rotation on
and was streamed on
frequently. It was also later played frequently on VH1 Madonna programs, but in an edited format. According to Eden Miller of , the reason why the video was possibly banned from
was due to the scene where it featured Madonna pointing a
towards the police, as MTV had previously banned videos that contained guns. Miller explained that "while Madonna is one of MTV's darlings, she's still a woman, and the idea of a woman taking her aggressions out on men is something the network can just not have. That's what is so disturbing [...] And that really is what it feels like for a girl."
listed the song on "Madonna's Most Shocking Moments" and said the song was supporting a "pro-feminist image".
The Tracy Young remix contains a sample of the background music used during the Blitzball sequences in the Square-Enix
video game .
The TV show
performed an all male cover of this song in their episode "" on April 20, 2010 (season 1, episode 15).
A remix is also used in the
as a violent and sexually explicit video interlude, featuring footage from the anime film .
US 2×12" vinyl (9
A1 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" ( Perfecto Mix) – 7:18
A2 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" ( Velvet Masta Mix) – 8:08
B1 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" ( 12" Club Mix) – 7:27
B2 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Richard Vission Velvet Masta Edit) – 3:39
C1 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Calderone & Quayle Dark Side Mix) – 6:42
C2 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Cool Out Radio Mix) – 4:45
D1 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Above & Beyond Club Radio Edit) – 3:45
D2 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Club Mix) – 8:45
EU 12" vinyl ( 0)
A1 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Calderone & Quayle Dark Side Mix) – 6:42
A2 "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Cool Out Radio Mix) – 4:45
B "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Richard Vission Velvet Masta Edit) – 3:39
UK 12" vinyl (W533T), EU 12" Remix vinyl ( 0)
A "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Above & Beyond 12" Club Mix) – 7:27
B "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Paul Oakenfold Perfecto Mix) – 7:18
EU CD single ( 2)
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Album Version) – 4:43
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Above & Beyond Club Radio Edit) – 3:45
EU Maxi-CD ( 2)
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Radio Edit) – 4:03
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Cool Out Radio Mix) – 4:45
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Calderone & Quayle Dark Side Mix) – 6:42
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Richard Vission Velvet Masta Edit) – 3:39
AU CD single (-2)(Limited edition with fold out poster)
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Album Version) – 4:43
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Calderone & Quayle Dark Side Mix) – 6:42
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Above & Beyond 12" Club Mix) – 7:27
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Paul Oakenfold Perfecto Mix) – 7:18
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Richard Vission Velvet Masta Mix) – 8:08
JP Maxi-CD (WPCR-10905)
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Radio Edit) – 4:03
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Cool Out Radio Mix) – 4:45
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Calderone & Quayle Dark Side Mix) – 6:42
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Club Mix) – 8:45
JP CD single (WPCR-10906), US Maxi-CD (9
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Paul Oakenfold Perfecto Mix) – 7:18
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Richard Vission Velvet Masta Mix) – 8:08
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Calderone & Quayle Dark Side Mix) – 6:42
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Club Mix) – 8:45
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Above & Beyond 12" Club Mix) – 7:27
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Tracy Young Cool Out Radio Mix) – 4:45
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Richard Vission Velvet Masta Edit) – 3:39
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Above & Beyond Club Radio Edit) – 3:45
"Lo Que Siente La Mujer" - 4:43
US DVD single (38539-2)
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Video) – 5:00
EU DVD single (-2)
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Video) – 5:00
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Calderone & Quayle Dark Side Mix) – 6:42
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" (Richard Vission Velvet Masta Mix) – 8:08
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