Английская Википедия:Candy (Foxy Brown song)

"Candy" is a song by American rapper Foxy Brown featuring American singer Kelis, released by Def Jam on August 21, 2001, as the third single from her third studio album Broken Silence (2001). A dance-pop and R&B track, it was produced by the Neptunes duo Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, who co-wrote the song alongside Brown and Juan Manuel Cordova. Brown raps on the verses while Kelis, a frequent collaborator with the Neptunes, performs the hook. The song was recorded in Virginia Beach and mixed in New York City. "Candy" premiered at the Broken Silence listening party in June 2001, and although it did not receive an official music video, a portion of it was played in the video for the album track "Tables Will Turn".

The song is about cunnilingus. While this sexually explicit content marked a continuity with Brown's earlier material, it set "Candy" apart from the rest of Broken Silence, which tended toward more introspective subject matters. According to critics, the single has elements of 1980s music, dance music, and new wave music and a more pop sound than Brown's previous albums.

"Candy" received a positive response upon release and in retrospective reviews. Music critics compared it to music by other artists, specifically Lil' Kim, while scholars analyzed its representation of black female sexuality. In the US, the song appeared on Billboard charts, reaching the top ten on the Hot Rap Songs chart. "Candy" was included on several soundtracks in the early 2000s; it was featured in the television series Dark Angel and the films Friday After Next and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Production and release

The Neptunes duo Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams produced two songs—"Candy" and "Gangsta Boogie"—for Foxy Brown's third studio album Broken Silence (2001).Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Billboard's Colin Finan wrote that they had become so prolific in 2001 that they had "laced nearly every R&B/hip-hop hit" that summer, including "Candy".Шаблон:Sfn Hugo and Williams co-wrote the single with Juan Manuel Cordova and Brown, who is credited under her legal name Inga Marchand. Cordova has writing credits on five other tracks from Broken Silence.Шаблон:Sfn

Left side portrait of Foxy Brown looking slightly toward the camera

Foxy Brown (pictured in 1998) was a co-writer for "Candy".

"Candy" features vocals by Kelis, a frequent collaborator with the Neptunes.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn According to music journalist Peter Shapiro, Kelis was the duo's "diva of choice" to sing hooks on other artists' songs. Shapiro noted the diversity of her work, mentioning her contributions to music "for everyone from Foxy Brown to Noreaga".Шаблон:Sfn "Candy" was recorded at the Master Sound Recording Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The vocals were handled by David Hummel and Erik Steinert and mixed by Axel Niehaus at Avatar Studios in New York City.Шаблон:Sfn

The song debuted at the Broken Silence listening party held in New York City in June 2001.Шаблон:Sfn On August 21, 2001, Def Jam released "Candy" in the US as the album's third single,Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn and PolyGram promoted it in the UK in 2002.Шаблон:Sfn It was issued as a 12-inch single and a CD single;Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn the 12-inch single included the song's radio edit and instrumental and "730" as its B-side.Шаблон:Sfn Elektra produced a pink vinyl record in a limited edition.Шаблон:Sfn To promote "Candy", Brown performed a portion of it in the music video for her track "Tables Will Turn".Шаблон:Sfn

Following its release, "Candy" was featured on early 2000s soundtracks,Шаблон:Sfn appearing in the films Friday After Next (2002) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005).Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Along with its inclusion on the 2002 soundtrack for the television show Dark Angel,Шаблон:Sfn it was played in the season two episode "Some Assembly Required".Шаблон:Sfn The song appeared on the 2003 compilation album XXX Hip Hop. AllMusic's Tim Sendra wrote that "Candy", as well as Lil' Kim's "Suck My Dick" and Khia's "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)", represented the "nasty females" on the album.Шаблон:Sfn

"Candy" debuted at number 24 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Billboard chart dated September 15, 2001.Шаблон:Sfn After the single reached number 48 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Billboard chart,Шаблон:Sfn The Boombox's Nadine Graham said it had "struggled its way up" to this position.Шаблон:Sfn The song also peaked at number 10 on the Hot Rap Songs Billboard chart in September 2001.Шаблон:Sfn

Music and lyrics

In comparison to Brown's previous funk-influenced albums, "Candy" has a more pop sound,Шаблон:Sfn which HipHopDXШаблон:'s Nomatazele further defined as dance-pop.Шаблон:Sfn In MTV News, Shaheem Reid said it was a "sugary party track" that was "Spanish guitar-flavored",Шаблон:Sfn while author Anthony J. Fonseca associated its general style with dance music and refrain to pop music.Шаблон:Sfn On the other hand, Colin Finan and the Phoenix New TimesШаблон:'s Bret McCabe reviewed the single as an R&B track.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Along with these genres, "Candy" has 1980s new wave influences.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Its instrumental is built on a staccato beat frequently used by the Neptunes.Шаблон:Sfn Brown raps the verses "aggressively" over the song's mid-tempo beat.Шаблон:Sfn Finan likened her vocal style to a "sexy, husky boom", and said Kelis has a more "high-pitched, childlike sound".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Listen "Candy" is about cunnilingus, as represented in lyrics such as "let me know when you're ready to eat".Шаблон:Sfn Finan wrote that the song is "an ode to oral sex".Шаблон:Sfn Due to this content, reviewers have likened the track to a striptease,Шаблон:Sfn in which Brown graphically boasts about her sexuality.Шаблон:Sfn Although Broken Silence has a larger focus on introspective subject matters, such as "The Letter" being about a suicide attempt, critics noted it still featured sexually explicit songs, like "Candy", as had been the case on Brown's past albums.^[1] While discussing this change in style, The GuardianШаблон:'s Caroline Sullivan clarified: "But the sexually provocative Foxy of old isn't completely extinct."Шаблон:Sfn

Throughout the song, Brown boasts that she tastes "just like candy". In the lyrics, "Licking my lips / And adjusting my tits and switching my hips", curriculum professor Nichole A. Guillory likened Brown to a seductive stewardess instructing a lover to examine her body.Шаблон:Sfn Brown invites the anonymous male subject to "imagine me nude, stretched out" and "nipples all out, bent over the sink",Шаблон:Sfn but also gives him a warning: "When I lay on my stomach and throw my legs back / Y'all niggaz won't know how to act."Шаблон:Sfn In the third verse, Brown takes on more agency, rapping about her self-worth.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn

Reception

Critical reception

Kelis pictured singing with her arms raised, a microphone in her left hand standing in front of a drummer

Some critics praised Kelis (pictured in 2007) for her vocals on "Candy".

"Candy" received a positive response from critics, several of whom cited it as a highlight of Broken Silence, including Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, Steve Jones for USA Today, and the Associated Press Шаблон:'s Latrice Davis.^[2] In a review for The Dallas Morning News, Rob Clark praised the song as "undeniably catchy".Шаблон:Sfn Writing for Spin, Joshua Clover described "Candy" as a "strange brew of threatening, hooky, sexy, creepy, and overwhelming" vocals, and wrote that the Neptunes represented Brown's "discreet charm".Шаблон:Sfn In Billboard, Colin Finan said the production complimented Brown and Kelis's voices. However, he questioned the song's appeal to some audiences, specifically those of conservative radio stations, due to its sexual content.Шаблон:Sfn In a negative review for the Phoenix New Times, Bret McCabe argued Brown's voice was not strong enough for R&B and soul music.Шаблон:Sfn Although critically approved, "Candy" did not fare well with the public; Nadine Graham wrote that "the streets hated it".Шаблон:Sfn

Retrospective reviews of "Candy" have been positive. Fuse's Jeff Benjamin included it on his 2014 Spotify playlist of the best female collaborations.Шаблон:Sfn In 2019, HipHopDXШаблон:'s Dana Scott praised "Candy" as a "pop-worthy earworm" that helped brighten the album's mood.Шаблон:Sfn Although Graham described "Candy" as a "sugary sweet, poppy cut", she considered it shallow in comparison to the other, more personal songs in Broken Silence.Шаблон:Sfn Kelis was also praised in some retrospective articles.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn In 2008, The News-PressШаблон:'s Mark Marymont said that although Kelis had "sometimes thin, even whiny vocals", she sounded better on duets like "Candy".Шаблон:Sfn Patrick D. McDermott, writing in a 2017 article for The Fader, cited the single as one of her best collaborations; he described the hook as "stone-cold classic Kelis" and "lightyears ahead of its time".Шаблон:Sfn

Scholarly analysis

"Candy" has been the subject of scholarly analysis.^[3] Scholar Doyinsola Faluyi cited Brown's appearance on the single's cover as an example of how some black female rappers used their sexuality to promote their image. According to Faluyi, this was a contrast to artists like Da Brat who adopted more masculine styles to conform to "the dominant fashion in male hip-hop culture".Шаблон:Sfn The lyrics were discussed by gender studies scholars Jennifer Esposito and Bettina Love who believed Brown's boasts about being the dominant sexual partner disproved psychologist Michelle Fine's theories on "sexuality as victimization". Esposito and Love remarked that Brown's demands for oral sex in the song challenge negative attitudes on sexually active women to instead "make it clear that women can desire sex and can ask for pleasure".Шаблон:Sfn

Some scholars were critical of "Candy".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Nichole A. Guillory criticized the lyrics as objectifying black women as "territories to be penetrated, occupied and ravaged by men". Guillory noted that Brown does demonstrate some agency while bragging about being priceless. Although she felt this moment was not enough to undo the objectification present in the other lyrics, Guillory acknowledged it as an "important reminder of the ongoing struggle between black women and men for control of black women's bodies".Шаблон:Sfn Esposito and Love questioned if Brown was advocating a stereotype that "bad girls are used sexually by men, while good girls are the ones men want to marry".Шаблон:Sfn

Reviewers have compared "Candy" to music by other artists, specifically Lil' Kim.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Esposito and Love likened the song's candy metaphor to Lil' Kim's "Kitty Box" from her 2005 album The Naked Truth.Шаблон:Sfn In a review of Macy Gray's 2001 album The Id, Arion Berger of The Washington Post said the track "Harry" had a "sexual boast as bold" as "Candy", which he described as "supremely nasty".Шаблон:Sfn Author Roni Sarig praised the Neptunes's production on "Candy", Beyoncé's "Work It Out", and Common's "I Got a Right Ta" as a "combination of classical soul, blues, and pop bundled with twenty-first century digital mayhem".Шаблон:Sfn In a 2020 NPR article, Stephanie Smith-Strickland wrote that "Candy" and Lil' Kim's 1997 single "Not Tonight" helped to establish a trend in music explicitly about cunnilingus. She argued this influence could be heard in Khia's 2002 single "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)", which she said had "carved out a towering space of its own" in that area.Шаблон:Sfn

Track listing

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Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Broken Silence:Шаблон:Sfn

Recording locations

Recorded in Master Sound Recording Studios in Virginia Beach and Avatar Studios in New York City

Personnel

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Foxy Brown – writer
Kelis – featured artist
Juan Manuel Cordova – writer
Chad Hugo – writer
Pharrell Williams – writer

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The Neptunes – producer
Axel Niehaus – mixing, studio personnel
David Hummel – recording, studio personnel
Erik Steinert – vocal recording, studio personnel

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Charts

Weekly chart performance for "Candy"
Chart (2001)	Peak position
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 (Billboard)Шаблон:Sfn	24
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)Шаблон:Sfn	48
US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)Шаблон:Sfn	10

References

Footnotes

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Citations

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