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Fuck You (CeeLo Green song)

January 01, 1970

"Forget You" redirects here. For the song by Gayle in which its clean version contains this phrase, see ABCDEFU.

"Fuck You" (stylized as "Fuck You!" or "F**k You!"), known as "Forget You" or "FU" for the clean versions, is a song by American recording artist CeeLo Green. It was written as a collaboration among Green,[1][2] Bruno Mars, his production team the Smeezingtons, and Brody Brown.[1][2][3] It was released on August 19, 2010, as the first single from Green's third solo studio album, The Lady Killer (2010). "Fuck You" received acclaim from music critics, and was an international commercial success, making the top-10 in thirteen countries, including topping charts in the United Kingdom, and number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Fuck You"
Single by CeeLo Green
from the album The Lady Killer
ReleasedAugust 19, 2010
Recorded2010
Genre
Length3:41
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)The Smeezingtons
CeeLo Green singles chronology
"The One"
(2004) 		"Fuck You"
(2010) 		"It's OK"
(2010)
Music videos

Inspiration edit

In an interview with NME, Green said that, in addition to being about a heartbreak, the song was also about the music industry itself.[2]

Bruno Mars talked about the making of the song during a 2010 interview: “Cee Lo is one of those artists who says whatever it is that he wants to say. And what do you really want to say to a girl who leaves you for a guy with more money? Do you want to say 'good luck? Have fun in life?' No. You want to say, 'fuck you!' And if anyone's going to do it, it's going to be Cee-Lo.”[4]

Versions edit

Several versions of "Fuck You" have been released: the original recording, censored copies of it, and newer versions that include other performers or significant changes to the lyrics.

The original has twice been edited to remove swearing: the first of these, which is broadcast in the music video on UK television stations and played on US radio, is called "Forget You"; the second, for UK radio use, is entitled "FU".[5][6] These two are essentially identical to the original except in their treatment of profanity; "Forget You" replaces the profanity with sound effects (other than "fuck you", which is changed to "forget you" per the title), and "FU" censors words by simply silencing them except replacing "fuck you" with "eff you" - also as its title suggests. The unedited original and both of the censored versions can be found on iTunes, and both "Fuck You" and "Forget You" are included in an extended play featuring the music video and lyric video released on August 19, 2010.[7] "FU" was not released until September 21.[8]

A fourth version of the song, featuring American rapper 50 Cent, was released to iTunes. The version was entitled "Fuck You (Heartbreaker)!", and was released only in America. The video for this version of the song incorporates scenes from the original video with extra shots of 50 Cent performing.

CeeLo performed a parody of the song, featuring an all-female backing band named "Scarlet Fever", on The Colbert Report on November 9, 2010. It is entitled "Fuck You (Fox News)", and satirizes Fox News controversies.[9]

A sixth version of the song, entitled "Thank You", was released on May 9, 2011, with lyrics extensively re-written as a tribute to firefighters. These lyrics mention that Cee Lo's mother was a firefighter. A new version of the video was released for this version that includes scenes of Cee Lo visiting a fire station.[10][11]

Music video edit

Initially, a lyric video for "Fuck You" was released to YouTube on August 19, 2010,[12] featuring kinetic typography, with the lyrics of the song appearing on different colored backgrounds with film grain overlaid on the video. The same thing was done in the German, Japanese and Spanish versions of the video, translating the lyrics, although the vocals remained in English.

The official music video was released on September 1, 2010.[13] The video was directed by Matt Stawski and was filmed at Cadillac Jack's, a movie prop diner located in the Sun Valley area of Los Angeles.[13] Taking place in a diner, the video chronicles Cee Lo's misadventures with a girl he has a crush on, known as "The Heartbreaker" throughout the video. In the beginning, a young Cee Lo goes into the diner with his parents and goes up to the Heartbreaker, who is sitting with another boy. He offers to let the Heartbreaker play with his toy garbage truck, but she ignores him and walks away with the other boy, who has a toy Ferrari F40. In his high school years, Cee Lo works at the diner as a dishwasher. He attempts to woo the Heartbreaker with a bouquet of flowers but slips on fries deliberately dropped by another boy. The flowers fly out of his hand and land on a much younger girl's lap. During his college years, Cee Lo studies in the diner with another woman implied to be his music tutor. He then attempts to woo the Heartbreaker by having the waitress draw a heart-shaped ketchup mark on her hot dog plate, but the Heartbreaker approaches him with a basket of fries and spills them on his shirt, leaving a large ketchup stain on it. Cee Lo then goes through an epiphany in his life and the video fast-forwards to the present day, when Cee Lo is now known as "The Lady Killer" and has a fancy Cadillac Eldorado with his backup singers in the back seat. He drives past the diner to find the Heartbreaker working there, sweeping the front entrance while others are dancing behind her. Cee Lo waves at the Heartbreaker before driving away. The final shot is of him waving at the camera and the words "The Lady Killer" appearing on screen, before the shot freezes, thus ending the video.

The radio edit version of the video contains re-shot elements that have been mixed with parts from the original, most notably when Cee Lo is on screen and he is singing alternative lyrics, but he is not shown singing the clean lyrics in the titular chorus. Some parts of the video tend to freeze for a split second when a bowdlerized lyric is being mouthed to prevent the lips from being read. At the start of the explicit version and clean version titled FU, the mother of the young Cee Lo Green can be seen to look very shocked and taps him on the shoulder to make him turn around when he first swears. This does not happen in the clean version titled Forget You.

Commercial performance edit

In the US, "Fuck You" debuted at No. 69 on Hot Digital Songs and No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100.[14] The song originally peaked at number 9 in 2010, but following Cee Lo's performance of the song at the 53rd Grammy Awards, "Fuck You" had a resurgence in popularity and climbed back up the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching No. 2 in its 26th chart week (making it one of the slowest climbs ever into the number 2 position) tying it with Cee Lo's previous 2006 hit "Crazy" from his musical duo project Gnarls Barkley as his highest-charting single. The song remained at No. 2 for four consecutive weeks.[15] In all, the single spent a total of 48 weeks on the Hot 100. It was certified Gold on November 5, 2010.[16]

The week of March 24, 2011, the song was the best-selling song in the USA of 2011, having been sold 1,865,000 times in 2011 only, despite the song never reaching No. 1 and being released in August 2010.[17] In the subsequent week, the song surpassed 2 million copies in sales in 2011 alone, bringing its total to 3,707,000 copies.[18] The week of April 16, 2011, the song topped the Pop Songs radio airplay chart in its 25th week, completing the longest journey to the summit in the ranking's 18-year history.[19] "Fuck You" would go on to share the record with Demi Lovato's 2012 single "Give Your Heart a Break" before it was eventually broken by Alessia Cara's "Here" in 2016.[20] As of April 2013, "Fuck You" had sold over 6 million copies in the U.S.[21]

Critical reception edit

"Fuck You" received acclaim from music critics. Jason Lipshutz from Billboard gave "Fuck You" a positive review stating, "it's as sunny as a '60s Motown hit and as expletive-laden as an early Eminem song, a combination that fits the singer's sky-high vocals and offbeat sense of humor well. Over a twinkling piano line, bumping bass and steady percussion, Green shakes off a failed relationship with a gold digger by packing the simple pleasures of old-school soul music into tongue-in-cheek verses and a suitably soaring chorus."[22] Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars writing: "As its title suggests, 'Fuck You' is essentially a middle finger extending from the fist of a pop single—and a gloriously catchy Motown stomper of a pop single at that."[23] Alexandra Patsavas, music supervisor for the Twilight films, praised Mars' ability to veer between "a beautifully crafted pop song exquisitely sung" and the likes of Cee-Lo's "Fuck You". "How sublime that an artist can travel so fluidly between humor and earnestness," she remarked.[24]

Accolades edit

At the 53rd Grammy Awards, "Fuck You" was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, and won Best Urban/Alternative Performance. The video was also nominated for Best Short Form Music Video.[25] It was named the #1 song of 2010 by Time, and made the top of Metacritic's users poll.[26][27] Spin and The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll named "Fuck You" the best single of 2010. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 112 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[28]

Live performances edit

Cee Lo toured with an all-female backing band named Scarlet Fever, performing "Fuck You" on Taratata, at the Reeperbahn Festival, Later... with Jools Holland, Late Show with David Letterman, the 31st annual Children in Need telethon, the Christmas edition of BBC One chart show Top of the Pops, Saturday Night Live and many other venues. Cee Lo also performed at the 53rd Grammy Awards on February 13, 2011, with actress Gwyneth Paltrow and several puppets provided by The Jim Henson Company. Two days later, he sang at the 2011 BRIT Awards alongside UK singer Paloma Faith. On August 14, Cee Lo sang at WWE's 2011 Summerslam pay-per-view event in Los Angeles with the addition of WWE Divas dancing to "Fuck You" at the event's venue.

Track listings edit

Credits and personnel edit

Mixing and mastering

  • Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios, Hollywood, California; mastered at Sterling Sound, New York, New York; engineered at Levcon Studios, Hollywood, California.

Personnel

Credits adapted from[vague] the liner notes of The Lady Killer, Elektra Records

Charts and certifications edit

Release history edit

Release dates for "Fuck You"
Region Date Format Label
United States August 19, 2010 CD single Elektra
United Kingdom October 4, 2010[90]

See also edit

References edit

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Forget You redirects here For the song by Gayle in which its clean version contains this phrase see ABCDEFU Fuck You stylized as Fuck You or F k You known as Forget You or FU for the clean versions is a song by American recording artist CeeLo Green It was written as a collaboration among Green 1 2 Bruno Mars his production team the Smeezingtons and Brody Brown 1 2 3 It was released on August 19 2010 as the first single from Green s third solo studio album The Lady Killer 2010 Fuck You received acclaim from music critics and was an international commercial success making the top 10 in thirteen countries including topping charts in the United Kingdom and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 Fuck You Single by CeeLo Greenfrom the album The Lady KillerReleasedAugust 19 2010Recorded2010GenreSoul funk popLength3 41LabelElektraSongwriter s CeeLo Green Bruno Mars Philip Lawrence Ari Levine Brody BrownProducer s The SmeezingtonsCeeLo Green singles chronology The One 2004 Fuck You 2010 It s OK 2010 Music videos Fuck You on YouTube Contents 1 Inspiration 2 Versions 3 Music video 4 Commercial performance 5 Critical reception 5 1 Accolades 6 Live performances 7 Track listings 8 Credits and personnel 9 Charts and certifications 9 1 Weekly charts 9 2 Year end charts 9 3 Decade end charts 9 4 Certifications 10 Release history 11 See also 12 ReferencesInspiration editIn an interview with NME Green said that in addition to being about a heartbreak the song was also about the music industry itself 2 Bruno Mars talked about the making of the song during a 2010 interview Cee Lo is one of those artists who says whatever it is that he wants to say And what do you really want to say to a girl who leaves you for a guy with more money Do you want to say good luck Have fun in life No You want to say fuck you And if anyone s going to do it it s going to be Cee Lo 4 Versions editSeveral versions of Fuck You have been released the original recording censored copies of it and newer versions that include other performers or significant changes to the lyrics The original has twice been edited to remove swearing the first of these which is broadcast in the music video on UK television stations and played on US radio is called Forget You the second for UK radio use is entitled FU 5 6 These two are essentially identical to the original except in their treatment of profanity Forget You replaces the profanity with sound effects other than fuck you which is changed to forget you per the title and FU censors words by simply silencing them except replacing fuck you with eff you also as its title suggests The unedited original and both of the censored versions can be found on iTunes and both Fuck You and Forget You are included in an extended play featuring the music video and lyric video released on August 19 2010 7 FU was not released until September 21 8 A fourth version of the song featuring American rapper 50 Cent was released to iTunes The version was entitled Fuck You Heartbreaker and was released only in America The video for this version of the song incorporates scenes from the original video with extra shots of 50 Cent performing CeeLo performed a parody of the song featuring an all female backing band named Scarlet Fever on The Colbert Report on November 9 2010 It is entitled Fuck You Fox News and satirizes Fox News controversies 9 A sixth version of the song entitled Thank You was released on May 9 2011 with lyrics extensively re written as a tribute to firefighters These lyrics mention that Cee Lo s mother was a firefighter A new version of the video was released for this version that includes scenes of Cee Lo visiting a fire station 10 11 Music video editInitially a lyric video for Fuck You was released to YouTube on August 19 2010 12 featuring kinetic typography with the lyrics of the song appearing on different colored backgrounds with film grain overlaid on the video The same thing was done in the German Japanese and Spanish versions of the video translating the lyrics although the vocals remained in English The official music video was released on September 1 2010 13 The video was directed by Matt Stawski and was filmed at Cadillac Jack s a movie prop diner located in the Sun Valley area of Los Angeles 13 Taking place in a diner the video chronicles Cee Lo s misadventures with a girl he has a crush on known as The Heartbreaker throughout the video In the beginning a young Cee Lo goes into the diner with his parents and goes up to the Heartbreaker who is sitting with another boy He offers to let the Heartbreaker play with his toy garbage truck but she ignores him and walks away with the other boy who has a toy Ferrari F40 In his high school years Cee Lo works at the diner as a dishwasher He attempts to woo the Heartbreaker with a bouquet of flowers but slips on fries deliberately dropped by another boy The flowers fly out of his hand and land on a much younger girl s lap During his college years Cee Lo studies in the diner with another woman implied to be his music tutor He then attempts to woo the Heartbreaker by having the waitress draw a heart shaped ketchup mark on her hot dog plate but the Heartbreaker approaches him with a basket of fries and spills them on his shirt leaving a large ketchup stain on it Cee Lo then goes through an epiphany in his life and the video fast forwards to the present day when Cee Lo is now known as The Lady Killer and has a fancy Cadillac Eldorado with his backup singers in the back seat He drives past the diner to find the Heartbreaker working there sweeping the front entrance while others are dancing behind her Cee Lo waves at the Heartbreaker before driving away The final shot is of him waving at the camera and the words The Lady Killer appearing on screen before the shot freezes thus ending the video The radio edit version of the video contains re shot elements that have been mixed with parts from the original most notably when Cee Lo is on screen and he is singing alternative lyrics but he is not shown singing the clean lyrics in the titular chorus Some parts of the video tend to freeze for a split second when a bowdlerized lyric is being mouthed to prevent the lips from being read At the start of the explicit version and clean version titled FU the mother of the young Cee Lo Green can be seen to look very shocked and taps him on the shoulder to make him turn around when he first swears This does not happen in the clean version titled Forget You Commercial performance editIn the US Fuck You debuted at No 69 on Hot Digital Songs and No 96 on the Billboard Hot 100 14 The song originally peaked at number 9 in 2010 but following Cee Lo s performance of the song at the 53rd Grammy Awards Fuck You had a resurgence in popularity and climbed back up the Billboard Hot 100 chart reaching No 2 in its 26th chart week making it one of the slowest climbs ever into the number 2 position tying it with Cee Lo s previous 2006 hit Crazy from his musical duo project Gnarls Barkley as his highest charting single The song remained at No 2 for four consecutive weeks 15 In all the single spent a total of 48 weeks on the Hot 100 It was certified Gold on November 5 2010 16 The week of March 24 2011 the song was the best selling song in the USA of 2011 having been sold 1 865 000 times in 2011 only despite the song never reaching No 1 and being released in August 2010 17 In the subsequent week the song surpassed 2 million copies in sales in 2011 alone bringing its total to 3 707 000 copies 18 The week of April 16 2011 the song topped the Pop Songs radio airplay chart in its 25th week completing the longest journey to the summit in the ranking s 18 year history 19 Fuck You would go on to share the record with Demi Lovato s 2012 single Give Your Heart a Break before it was eventually broken by Alessia Cara s Here in 2016 20 As of April 2013 Fuck You had sold over 6 million copies in the U S 21 Critical reception edit Fuck You received acclaim from music critics Jason Lipshutz from Billboard gave Fuck You a positive review stating it s as sunny as a 60s Motown hit and as expletive laden as an early Eminem song a combination that fits the singer s sky high vocals and offbeat sense of humor well Over a twinkling piano line bumping bass and steady percussion Green shakes off a failed relationship with a gold digger by packing the simple pleasures of old school soul music into tongue in cheek verses and a suitably soaring chorus 22 Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars writing As its title suggests Fuck You is essentially a middle finger extending from the fist of a pop single and a gloriously catchy Motown stomper of a pop single at that 23 Alexandra Patsavas music supervisor for the Twilight films praised Mars ability to veer between a beautifully crafted pop song exquisitely sung and the likes of Cee Lo s Fuck You How sublime that an artist can travel so fluidly between humor and earnestness she remarked 24 Accolades edit At the 53rd Grammy Awards Fuck You was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year and won Best Urban Alternative Performance The video was also nominated for Best Short Form Music Video 25 It was named the 1 song of 2010 by Time and made the top of Metacritic s users poll 26 27 Spin and The Village Voice s Pazz amp Jop critics poll named Fuck You the best single of 2010 In October 2011 NME placed it at number 112 on its list 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years 28 Live performances editCee Lo toured with an all female backing band named Scarlet Fever performing Fuck You on Taratata at the Reeperbahn Festival Later with Jools Holland Late Show with David Letterman the 31st annual Children in Need telethon the Christmas edition of BBC One chart show Top of the Pops Saturday Night Live and many other venues Cee Lo also performed at the 53rd Grammy Awards on February 13 2011 with actress Gwyneth Paltrow and several puppets provided by The Jim Henson Company Two days later he sang at the 2011 BRIT Awards alongside UK singer Paloma Faith On August 14 Cee Lo sang at WWE s 2011 Summerslam pay per view event in Los Angeles with the addition of WWE Divas dancing to Fuck You at the event s venue Track listings editFU 29 FU Clean version 3 42 FU Semi clean version 3 42 Fuck You CD single Fuck You 3 42 Georgia 3 46 Maxi single Fuck You 3 42 Forget You 3 42 Forget You Le Castle Vania remix 4 38 Georgia 3 46 Digital single 30 31 Fuck You 3 42 Forget You 3 42 Fuck You Video 3 42 Fuck You Lyric video 3 42 12 inch vinyl single Fuck You 3 42 Fuck You Instrumental 3 42 Fuck You Heartbreaker Fuck You Heartbreaker featuring 50 Cent 4 05 Thank You Thank You 4 01Credits and personnel editMixing and mastering Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios Hollywood California mastered at Sterling Sound New York New York engineered at Levcon Studios Hollywood California Personnel Songwriting CeeLo Green Bruno Mars Philip Lawrence Ari Levine Production The Smeezingtons Bruno Mars Phillip Lawrence Ari Levine Mixing Manny Marroquin Assistant Christian Plata Erik Madrid Mastering Chris Gehringer Engineer Ari Levine All instruments Ari Levine Bruno Mars Brody Brown Credits adapted from vague the liner notes of The Lady Killer Elektra RecordsCharts and certifications editWeekly charts edit Weekly chart performance for Fuck You Chart 2010 2011 Peakposition Australia ARIA 32 5 Austria O3 Austria Top 40 33 5 Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 34 12 Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 35 27 Canada Canadian Hot 100 36 7 Czech Republic Radio Top 100 37 21 Denmark Tracklisten 38 2 Europe European Hot 100 Singles 39 3 France SNEP 40 86 Germany Official German Charts 41 11 Hungary Radios Top 40 42 5 Ireland IRMA 43 6 Israel Media Forest 44 2 Japan Japan Hot 100 45 52 Netherlands Dutch Top 40 46 1 Netherlands Single Top 100 47 3 New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 48 5 Scotland OCC 49 1 Slovakia Radio Top 100 50 3 Sweden Sverigetopplistan 51 6 Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 52 13 UK Singles OCC 53 1 UK Hip Hop R amp B OCC 54 1 US Billboard Hot 100 55 2 US Adult Contemporary Billboard 56 13 US Adult Top 40 Billboard 57 2 US Alternative Airplay Billboard 58 33 US Hot R amp B Hip Hop Songs Billboard 59 57 US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 60 1 US Rhythmic Billboard 61 10 Year end charts edit 2010 year end chart performance for Fuck You Chart 2010 Position Australia ARIA 62 23 Belgium Ultratop Flanders 63 79 Canada Canadian Hot 100 64 77 Denmark Tracklisten 65 40 European Hot 100 Singles 66 72 Germany Media Control Charts 67 97 Hungary Mahasz 68 45 Netherlands Dutch Top 40 69 31 Netherlands Single Top 100 70 39 New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 71 35 Sweden Sverigetopplistan 72 16 UK Singles Official Charts Company 73 12 2011 year end chart performance for Fuck You Chart 2011 Position Brazil Crowley 74 88 Canada Canadian Hot 100 75 25 Hungarian Airplay Chart 76 84 UK Singles Official Charts Company 77 72 US Billboard Hot 100 78 7 US Adult Contemporary Billboard 79 28 US Adult Top 40 Billboard 80 7 US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 81 18 Decade end charts edit Decade end chart performance for Fuck You Chart 2010 2019 Position US Billboard Hot 100 82 95 Certifications edit Certifications and sales for Fuck You Region Certification Certified units sales Australia ARIA 83 3 Platinum 210 000 Austria IFPI Austria 84 Gold 15 000 Canada Music Canada 85 4 Platinum 320 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 86 Platinum 30 000 New Zealand RMNZ 87 Platinum 15 000 United Kingdom BPI 88 3 Platinum 1 800 000 United States RIAA 89 7 Platinum 6 000 000 21 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Release history editRelease dates for Fuck You Region Date Format Label United States August 19 2010 CD single Elektra United Kingdom October 4 2010 90 See also editList of Dutch Top 40 number one singles of 2010 List of 2010s Scottish number one singles List of UK R amp B Chart number one singles of 2010 List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2010sReferences edit a b Mars Bruno Smeezingtons The June 19 2012 The Smeezingtons at the 2012 ASCAP I Create Music EXPO Part 1 of 2 video Event occurs at 5m18s Archived from the original on September 16 2014 Retrieved April 29 2017 via YouTube a b c Green Cee Lo October 6 2010 Cee Lo confirms 50 Cent Fuck You video and the return of Gnarls Barkley video NME video online ed Event occurs at 0m12s Archived from the original on October 29 2020 Retrieved April 21 2020 I co wrote this with Bruno Mars and over the year or so that I hung out with him and we worked together we became quite fond of each other and shared a similar taste and sense of humor and that song was a product of that working environment Well essentially I was in a place of where maybe subconsciously my fuck you was aimed at the industry itself You could also call this industry a she because you have to be kind you have to court it and be considerate and be consistent you know and also put up with its bullshit Kimpel Dan 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