Goodies (Lied)

"Goodies" is a crunk & B song written by American singer Ciara Harris, Sean Garrett, LaMarquis Jefferson, Craig Love and Jonathan Smith for Ciara's debut album Goodies (2004). It was released as the album's first single in third and fourth quarters of 2004 and first quarter of 2005. The song made a successful debut single in many markets. "Goodies" was Ciara's first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100.

Composition and theme

After the success of Usher's "Yeah!" and Petey Pablo's "Freek-a-Leek", LaFace executive L.A. Reid wanted a female version of Pablo's "Freek-a-Leek". Ciara went in the recording studio with Hip-hop producer Lil Jon. She began writing a demo, but she had difficulty composing lyrics and creating a melody. Reid asked songwriter Sean Garrett, who was co-writer of Usher's Yeah!, to help Ciara write the song. The process took several days including Ciara and Garrett writing verses over the phone. The demo became "Goodies", which is the answer song to Pablo's "Freek-a-Leek". Lil Jon heard the demo and wanted to record the full track and Ciara became the first woman to record a crunk song.

The song's protagonist rejects a male's sexual advances, proclaiming that he will never get her "goodies" because "they stay in the jar". The song is basically about female empowerment and virginity. The protagonist does not want to an object over a complex instrumental. Reviews of the track included the views that "it's both clever and ironic considering how sexy her image" and "singularly disarming combination of an empowering message backed by an intoxicatingly sexy beat".

Commercial release

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Ciara in the music video for "Goodies".

Its video shows Ciara and her friends driving along the Atlanta, Georgia streets and to the local car wash in a Oldsmobile 442 convertible. It features cameo appearances by BoneCrusher, Monica, Jazze Pha, Young Jeezy, Lil Jon and among others. Ciara filmed the video for 27 straight hours with director Benny Boom.

She gave her first performance ever of "Goodies" on BET's 106 & Park.

"Goodies" is featured in the 2006 film Just My Luck.

"Goodies" is Ciara's biggest single in the United States; it stayed at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks. It topped several Billboard charts including the Hot 100 Airplay, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Rhythmic Top 40 and Top 40 Tracks charts. The single reached three on the Top 40 Mainstream. The song replaced "Lean Back" by Terror Squad, and was subsequently replaced by "My Boo" by Usher and Alicia Keys on both the Hot 100 and R&B/Hip-Hop charts. It reached number one in Canada and the United Kingdom, In the UK, it replaced "One Night/I Got Stung" by Elvis Presley and replaced another Presley re-release single "'O_Sole_Mio". The single peaked in the top ten of several European countries and the top twenty in Australia. The single reached ten in New Zealand and was ranked number nine on the 2004 U.S. Billboard year-end chart.

In 2005, "Goodies" was nominated for "Best R&B/Soul or Rap Song of the Year" at Soul Train Lady of Soul Music Awards and in 2006 it won the Best Performed Songs in the ASCAP Repertory for the 2005 Survey Year at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards, including "1, 2 Step" and "Oh".

Track listings and formats

• UK CD single

1. "Goodies" featuring Petey Pablo (main rap)
2. "Goodies" (no rap)

• UK CD single 2

1. "Goodies" (main rap - featuring Petey Pablo)
2. "Goodies" (Richard X remix - featuring M.I.A. - UK exclusive)
3. "Goodies" (Bimbo Jones remix - UK exclusive)
4. "Goodies" (video)
5. "Goodies" (ring tone)

Credits

• All vocals — Ciara
• Music performance — Lil Jon
• Engineer — Charles Sanders
• Second engineers — Steve Nowacynski and Brian Stanley
• Mixed by Lil Jon, Ray Seay, Brian Stanley

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	1
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	3
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks	1
Australia ARIA Top 50	19
Chart (2005)	Peak position
Austria Singles Chart	35
France Singles Chart	29
Germany Singles Chart	6
Ireland Singles Chart	4
Netherlands Singles Chart	35
New Zealand RIANZ Top 40	10
Norway Singles Chart	15
Official UK Singles Chart	1
United World Chart	6

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Official versions

• Alternate version featuring T.I. and Jazze Pha (bonus track on Goodies)
• Alternate version featuring Mia X
• Bimbo Jones full vocal
• Extended version featuring Petey Pablo, Lil' Jon, and Ludacris
• Richard X Remix (featuring M.I.A.)
• Acapella
• Instrumental
• Johnny Toobad remix

See also

• Hot 100 number-one hits of 2004 (USA)
• List of number-one R&B hits (United States)
• List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK)

References

• Ciara (2006). BET Official presents Ciara: The Evolution (BET Exclusive DVD) New York: LaFace Records and Zomba Label Group – Ciara explains the writing process of "Goodies" and filming the music video.