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"I Wanna Go" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears, released as the third single from her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale. It was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing by Savan Kotecha. Spears first posted a snippet of the track in February 2011, prior to the album's release. Following a poll on her official website in which fans could choose the third single of the album, "I Wanna Go" was announced as a single on May 13, 2011. The cover art was released on June 6, 2011.

"I Wanna Go" is a dance and Hi-NRG song that features a heavy bassline and drum fills reminiscent of New Order. The pre-chorus has a whistled hook that received comparisons to the music of Bob Sinclar and Frankie Knuckles. Spears' vocals are processed, and she squeals and stutters throughout the song. The lyrics of "I Wanna Go" feature Spears singing about losing inhibitions. The song received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Some praised it for being effective and highlighted its hook, while others dismissed the processed vocals. The song was treated with different remixes, including a Bollywood mix with guest vocals by Sonu Nigam, and another one by DJ Frank E and Alex Dreamz.

After the release of Femme Fatale, "I Wanna Go" charted due to digital sales in the lower regions of the US Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100, and also topped the South Korean International chart. Following its release as a single, the song reached the top ten in several music markets, including Canada, France, Finland and the United States. However, it became one of her lowest peaking singles in countries such as Australia and New Zealand, and was the first single of her career that failed to chart in the United Kingdom. In the United States, "I Wanna Go" made Femme Fatale the first album by Spears to have three top ten singles.

An accompanying music video for the song, directed by Chris Marrs Piliero, premiered on June 22, 2011. It depicts Spears daydreaming at a press conference about a series of events, including being chased by paparazzi cyborgs and being rescued by actor Guillermo Díaz. Marrs Piliero explained the video as "a ridiculous, exaggerated rumor about her life and career." The video references films such as Half Baked, Crossroads, Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Michael Jackson's Thriller. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised its fun spirit. Spears has performed "I Wanna Go" at the Femme Fatale Tour (2011).

Background and artwork

"I Wanna Go" was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing by Savan Kotecha. The song was written in 2009 and registered on Broadcast Music Incorporated under the legal title "I I I Wanna Go O O". On February 22, 2011, Spears posted on her Twitter account a link to a 29-second clip of the song, while calling Martin "amazing". With Rolling Stone, Spears stated that the song's signature whistle gets her "every time hears it", adding that Martin's melodies are "incredible. Who would have thought of that? There is nobody I feel more comfortable collaborating with in the studio." Kotecha told Digital Spy in May 2011 that the song was likely a contender for third single due to positive reaction. On May 11, 2011, a poll was launched on Britney.com in which fans could choose the third single of the album. Two days later, "I Wanna Go" was officially announced as the third single from Femme Fatale by Jive Records through a press release. The cover art was revealed on June 6, 2011, and featured Spears on the music video set, wearing colored hair extensions and a top with a skeletal Mickey Mouse.

Composition

"I Wanna Go" is a dance and Hi-NRG song. It features a heavy bassline and drum fills; the latter are reminiscent of English band New Order, more specifically of their single "Blue Monday" (1983). Spears squeals and chuckles throughout the song, and her vocals are processed. In the pre-chorus, she draws out the "e"'s in lines such as "Shame on me / To need release / Uncontrollably." The section also has a whistled hook, which was compared by Rich Juzwiak of The Village Voice to the music of French recording artist Bob Sinclar and American recording artist Frankie Knuckles. In the chorus, Spears stutters "I I I wanna go O O / All the way-ay-ay / Taking out my freak tonight". Ryan Brockington of the New York Post compared "I Wanna Go" to the music of her fifth studio album Blackout (2007).

In the lyrics, Spears sings about losing inhibitions, as evident in lines such as "I I I wanna show / All the dir-ir-irt / I got running through my mind.", while playfully apologizing for her need for sexual release. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times stated that she sings about "the scrum that surrounds her" in "Lately people got me all tied up / There's a countdown waiting for me to erupt". According to the sheet music published by EMI Music Publishing, "I Wanna Go" is written in the key of D minor, with an electropop beat infused metronome of 138 beats per minute. Spears' vocals range from the low-key of E₃ to the high-note of D₅.

Remixes

"I Wanna Go" was remixed with guest vocals by Indian singer Sonu Nigam and released on the DesiHits website in June 2011. In the remix, Sonu mirrors Spears' vocals in Hindi over Indian instruments. Spears said about the song, "I'm so excited about having Sonu on I Wanna Go. His vocals add such a different feel, which I love! Watch out Bollywood – it's Britney and Sonu!". A remix done by DJ Frank E and Alex Dreamz removes the whistled hook and adds an extra beat to the song. The accompanying video for the remix contains footage of the music video for the song with a glowing yellow tint.

Critical reception

Samesame.com.au called "I Wanna Go" Spears' best song since "Toxic", and added that "I’d go so far as to say that it is probably the best song that she has ever recorded. How the decision was made that 'Hold It Against Me' would be a better first single over this is baffling." Parker Bruce of the Washington Square News stated that the song functions as "a sort of formal declaration and mission statement" for Femme Fatale, saying that "It is not an innovative song, but it is fantastically effective and endlessly enticing with its liberating, toss-your-cares-away, dance-like-a-complete–and-utter-fool cathartic chorus, repeated words and typically saucy Britney lyrics." Hannah Rishel of The Daily Collegian said "I Wanna Go" would have been "another good lead single". Andrew Leahey of The Washington Times said that along with "Till the World Ends", they are "bass-heavy tributes to club culture."

Robert Copsey of Digital Spy called it "anthemic" and noted it may become a future single. Rich Juzwiak of The Village Voice called the song the highlight of Femme Fatale, and said "get ready for to score your summer." However, Juzwiak went on to note that her vocals are heavily manipulated to maximize the chorus's potential, even though "the joy she sings about is palpable." Thomas Conner of the Chicago Sun-Times also noted that her vocals were processed to the point "these songs could be sung by anyone", exemplifying "'I Wanna Go' tweaks her up so high she could be Jackie Evancho." Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine stated that "If not for its infectious pre-chorus whistle, 'I Wanna Go' would be just another song off the Max Martin assembly line".

Andy Gill of The Independent said that the album sounds more programmed than natural, commenting that "even the little whistling hook in 'I Wanna Go' has a synthetic character about it." Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said that although most of tracks of the album are "genuinely exciting there's certainly some unremarkable stuff on offer, notably 'Seal It With a Kiss' and 'I Wanna Go." Evan Sawdey of PopMatters stated that "I Wanna Go" is the point of the album in which "things stop being fun and start becoming intensely repetitious", critizing specifically " utterly stupid set of syllables repeated ad nauseam for no reason whatsoever? the 'ably' part of 'uncontrollably' gets recycled far beyond the point where it just sounds stupid." In September 2011, "I Wanna Go" topped Rolling Stone's reader's poll of The Best Songs of the Summer.

Chart performance

On the week of April 3, 2011, "I Wanna Go" debuted at number seventy-three on the US Billboard Hot 100, and at number fifty-two on the Hot Digital Songs component chart due to strong digital sales. The song debuted at number sixty on the Canadian Hot 100 on the week of April 16, 2011. It also debuted at number one on South Korea's GAON International Chart, and remained on the same position for three consecutive weeks, After its release as a single, the song debuted at number thirty-seven on the Billboard Pop Songs chart on the week of July 2, 2011. It also re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number eighty-nine. The following week, it surged up to number twenty-nine on the Hot 100 due to the premiere of the music video, with sales of 67,000 copies (up 282% from the previous week). "I Wanna Go" became Spears's twenty-first top-forty single, the third-highest female total since her first week on the chart on November 21, 1998, and only behind Taylor Swift with twenty-seven and Rihanna with twenty-two.

On August 4, 2011, the song climbed to number nine, making Femme Fatale the first album by Spears to achieve three top ten singles. It became her fifth top ten single in a row, and her twelfth top ten hit overall, the third-highest female total since her first week on the chart, behind Rihanna with eighteen and Beyoncé with fourteen. "I Wanna Go" peaked at number seven on the Hot 100 on the week of August 24, 2011. The song peaked atop the Pop Songs chart on September 24, 2011, becoming Spears' sixth single to top the chart, and setting a record for the longest span of number-one singles by an artist (12 years, seven months and four days). Spears scored her first chart-topper with "...Baby One More Time" on the week of February 20, 1999. She also tied Mariah Carey and Beyoncé for the third-highest female total of number-one singles. As of September 2011, "I Wanna Go" has sold over 1.1 million digital downloads in the United States.

In Australia, "I Wanna Go" debuted at number thirty-three on the ARIA Singles Chart on the week of July 10, 2011. It peaked at number thirty-one three weeks later, on July 31, 2011. The song became the third lowest peaking single of Spears' career in the country, after "Radar" (2009) at forty-six and "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (2000) at thirty-seven. It spent nine weeks on the chart. It has since been certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for sales of 35,000 units. In New Zealand, the song debuted at number twenty-five on the official chart, and peaked at number twenty-two the following week. It became her lowest peaking single since "Radar", and her sixth single to not enter the top twenty. The song spent ten weeks on the chart. On July 7, 2011, "I Wanna Go" debuted at forty-one on the Irish Singles Chart. It became her first single to not chart In the United Kingdom. Across Europe, the song has peaked at number five on Belgium (Flanders) and France; number ten in Finland; the top twenty in Belgium (Wallonia), Norway and Denmark; and the top forty in Czech Republic and Sweden.

Music video

Development

"Let me tell you, all of that is bulls. Every artist has management, that’s their job. It's what they’re paid for. I work with the artist. Your question goes along perfectly with the whole concept of the video and that press conference – it’s a ridiculous, exaggerated rumor about her life and career. I met with her, talked with her, went over the concept with her. It was extremely collaborative. She suggested alternatives and tweaked other things. As much as the management is there, this was a concept that Britney really dug. She was a big part of the decision-making process."

The music video for "I Wanna Go" was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero and filmed in Los Angeles, California. Spears first contacted Marrs Piliero and asked him to put together a concept for the video. The main idea for Marrs Piliero came from the lyric "be a little inappropiate", which stood out for him, but he did not want to make a video about sexual inappropriateness. Marrs Piliero wrote the opening press conference scene as a tribute to the film Half Baked (1998), which he is a fan of. He explained, "That scene resonates with everyone as the epitome of the greatest way to quit your job, and just blow people off. I felt like that would just be such a perfect way for her to tell the reporters to eff off." Marrs Piliero first asked actor Kellan Lutz to co-star the clip with Spears; however, Lutz turned down the role, saying that "there were a couple of weird things about the part that didn't make sense", including the scene where he was going to pour milk on himself. Marrs Piliero then thought of asking one of the stars of Half Baked, Guillermo Díaz, to be part of the video, explaining that it "would make it come full circle." He watched all of Spears' videos and wanted to pull what he loved from them, but also give it something fresh. Marrs Piliero felt that all of her references to the paparazzi in her previous videos had been more of a statement than an action, and for "I Wanna Go", he wanted her to have the opportunity to fight back.

Piliero had the concept nearly finished by the time he met with Spears. Both wanted to explore fun ways for her to be inappropiate in the video. Spears suggested different alternatives, including having the cop frisk her. Having seen Spears on How I Met Your Mother and Saturday Night Live, Marrs Piliero felt that none of her videos had really taken advantage of her comedic timing. "She never had a music video where she could show her acting chops and have fun with comedy while being super badass. That was my goal from day one: I wanted her to be funny, badass and super cool", said Marrs Piliero. During the first day of the shoot, he requested Spears to "have as much fun as possible over these next two days". He also stated that the Crossroads (2002) reference "s a fun Easter egg for fans. Plus, Die Hard 2: Die Harder is the most ridiculously awesome way to title a sequel. It just felt like the right thing to do. When Britney saw it, she loved it."

Synopsis

The video begins at a press conference where Spears, wearing a cropped Mickey Mouse top (paying homage to her days in The New Mickey Mouse Club), is being asked ridiculous questions such as, "Is it true you banned junk food, smiles, candy, sunshine and laughter from your Femme Fatale tour?". Fed up, Spears says to the reporters: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you – I'm out", referencing a scene of the film Half Baked. She steps out onto the street, wearing a white leather jacket and black frilly skirt matched with studded combat boots. She signs a fan's copy of Femme Fatale and then blows a kiss to a baby as he whistles the melody of the chorus. She keeps walking and flashes several men, including a policeman. He searches her feeling up and down her legs, as she is bent over a car. Spears later walks away from the policeman, swinging handcuffs around her finger while he buttons his shirt.

She continues walking down the street, where she smashes the camera of a paparazzo that takes pictures of her. More paparazzi appear as she runs off and jumps on top of a taxi. Spears then stands atop of it, wielding the microphone as a weapon against the paparazzi. Across the street, a marquee of the cinema besides her Crossroads 2: Cross Harder, referencing her film debut Crossroads. After all the paparazzi, revealed to be cyborgs, have been knocked to the floor, they start crawling back with their eyes glowing red and their faces bursting with wires, similar to a scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). A car suddenly pulls up and Guillermo Díaz tells her to enter it. In the next scene, Spears dances in the passenger seat in a pink bikini top, as Guillermo drives and pours a carton of milk over his face. His chest starts to spark, and Spears pulls open his jacket to reveal that he is also a cyborg. The video then cuts back to the press conference signaling Spears was daydreaming. Guillermo steps in and leads Spears out of the room. He turns to to the camera with his eyes glowling red, and his laugh is heard, referencing Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983).

Release and reception

On June 17, 2011, Jive Records announced through a press release that an exclusive 30-second teaser would premiere on June 19, 2011, on Bravo's Watch What Happens: Live and on Vevo simultaneously. The official video was revealed to premiere on MTV and Vevo on June 22, 2011. Following the premiere the video was played hourly on MTV, during video hours, and on VH1's Best Morning Buzz Live. Jen McDonnell of Dose said, "damn if doesn't rock. It all sounds very weird – and it is. But it's also buckets of fun." Megan Gibson of Time stated that the video is "It's random, weird and intended to be funny" and that despite the lack of dancing "Britney seems pleasantly energetic and spunky in 'I Wanna Go' which is a comforting change from her usual blank-eyed look." Gibson also compared her look in the video to that of Avril Lavigne. Sarah Anne Hughes of The Washington Post commented that the video "shows a much livelier Britney than the world has seen since the 'Toxic' years."

Jason Lipshutz of Billboard said that the video continues the visual representation of Spears' relationship with the paparazzi and her public image, as previously seen in the videos for "Everytime" (2004) and "Piece of Me" (2008), but "the new clip is arguably her most playful yet." Amos Barshad of New York stated the video "is awe-inspiring in almost exactly the way it intended to be" and that "the spirit of the song, as reflected in the video, is that of free will and dream fulfillment in the face of a repressive society." Jocelyn Vena of MTV commented that "Britney displays the sass and charm fans fell in love with a decade ago during performance shots, where she flirts with the camera, her eyes as big and wide as her smile." An editor for VH1 called the video "fan-freakin'-tastic" and compared it favorably to the music video for Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (2011), saying that "they share a silly temperament, a flirty star, and funny cameos. Upon closer examination, though, Britney's video blows Katy Perry's out of the water."

Devin Brown of CBS News called it her best video from Femme Fatale, and added that unlike "Piece of Me", "'I Wanna Go' offers a bevy of pop culture references meant to ridicule the rumors about the star – and finally no 'dancing.'" An editor from Rolling Stone said "The weirdness seems very calculated, but that doesn't make the video any less delightful." Another critic from Rolling Stone noted that the press conference "is hysterical because she's one of the least media-accessible singers in the world. It's easier to get a sit-down with Bob Dylan than it is with Britney." Becky Bain of Idolator callled the video "delightful" and "flat out funny", explaining that Spears "focuses her energy on being too darn cute (and deliciously naughty) instead of having to worry about dancing, is in on the joke and loving it all."

Live performances

"I Wanna Go" was first performed at 2011's Femme Fatale Tour. The song was performed after Spears sings a cover of Madonna's "Burning Up." Spears and her dancers bring fans onstage and dance with them throughout the performance. Shirley Halperin of The Hollywood Reporter stated that " mid-tempo numbers seemed to stall out quickly, where faster offerings like 'Womanizer,' 'I Wanna Go' and 'Toxic' had the sold out crowd jumping in place and pumping their number twos in the air." Shaunna Murphy of Entertainment Weekly said, "Of the newer songs, 'How I Roll' and 'I Wanna Go' were standouts, the former for its bubblegum fun and the latter for the uproarious fan participation on stage."

Track listing

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Femme Fatale booklet liner notes.

Charts

Radio date and release history

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External links

• Official music video on YouTube

• 2011 singles
• Dance-pop songs
• Songs written by Max Martin
• Songs written by Shellback
• Songs written by Savan Kotecha
• Songs produced by Max Martin
• Songs produced by Shellback
• Britney Spears songs
• English-language songs