" Dark Horse " is a song recorded by American singer Katy Perry featuring rapper Juicy J. It was originally released on September 17, 2013, by Capitol Records as the first promotion of Perry's fourth album, Prism (2013). Three months later, it was released as the third official single on December 17th. The two artists co-wrote the song with their producers Max Martin, Cirkut, and Dr. Luke, with Sarah Hudson. It was conceived by Perry and Hudson during a writing session in Perry's hometown of Santa Barbara, California, and Juicy J was then assigned to a verse on the song.
"Dark Horse" combines the genre of traps and hip hop, replicating what has been described as "Southern rap-techno mashup". The track has a minimal production, with "teasing" and "adult" tones for Perry's vocals, while Juicy J is featured in hacked intros and bridges. Perry, in an interview, said he wanted the song to have "magic, magic-y kinds of black magic ideas", so he wrote it from the perspective of a magician warning a man not to fall in love with him because if he did, he would be the last. The song is part of a Pepsi-sponsored competition in which fans can vote via Twitter on whether they would prefer "Dark Horse" or "Walking on Air" to be released as the first promotional single from Prism .
"Dark Horse" is a commercial success, charting at number one in Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. It also reached the top ten in nearly 20 countries including New Zealand, England, Sweden and Venezuela as well as the Digital Songs chart of Billboard magazine. Billboard identifies the Dark Horse as a musical accumulation on the charts. Perry first performed the song live at iHeartRadio 2013 Music Festival in Las Vegas on September 20, 2013. The first major television show was at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2014. "Dark Horse" was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Performance Group at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. The song has sold 13.2 million units (combined sales and track-equivalent streams), becoming the second best-selling song worldwide for 2014.
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Inspired by 1996 film The Craft, Perry and singer-songwriter Sarah Hudson wrote the first version of "Dark Horse" in Perry's hometown of Santa Barbara, California. Perry describes the song as "juxtaposition", as he mixes it, a pop music artist, with an "urban type soundtrack of a hip-hop-sense background"; and his lyrics as "witchy and dark", written from the point of view of "warning witch [a] not to fall in love with [him]", and if so, he will be the last for him. Perry then asked the producer. Luke to contact one of his Kemosabe Records artists, American rapper Juicy J, as guest poet. Juicy J praised Perry for having a "very professional" work ethic and was substantially involved in song development. He said: "My verse I did on the song, he sings it.He is really genius, he is on the mixing board and tells the person what he should take and take.He's really involved with his music, he knows music. "
"Dark Horse" was recorded and engineered at Luke's at Boo in Malibu, Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood, Playback Recording Studios in Santa Barbara, California, and Secret Garden Studios in Montecito, and MXM Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. It was engineered by Peter Carlsson, Mike "Crazy Mike" Foster, Clint Gibbs, Sam Holland, and Michael Ilbert. They were helped by Eric Eylands, Rachael Findlen, Justin Fox, Elliot Lanam, and Cory Bice. It was mixed by Serban Ghenea, while John Hanes served as an engineer for the mix. All instrumentation and programming is done by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Cirkut.
In a press release on August 20, 2013, Pepsi announced a partnership with Perry to promote his fourth studio album Prism: a social tweet-to-unlock voting program, encouraging fans to tweet KATYNOW #hashhtags instead of titles and song lyrics. The tracks selected for the campaign are "Walking on Air" and "Dark Horse". Once the samples are revealed, fans can choose which ones they want to have an initial release on the digital retailer. The winner is "Dark Horse", which was released on September 17, 2013 at the iTunes Store. Due to its commercial success, it was sent to contest radio stations and rhythmic contests on December 17, 2013 as the third official single Prism '.
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Composition
"Dark Horse" has been described as "Southern rap-techno mashup", combining traps and hip hop, and has a length of three minutes and thirty-five seconds. Musically, the poems were built around a cold rhythm and vocal samples were chopped and destroyed, while the chorus features' Perry singing gradually. This song contains a "very unusual" gloomy production. According to Kathy Iandoli of MSN Entertainment, "Dark Horse" contains a mixture of elements of "trippy pop", EDM, and dubstep. According to music sheets published on Musicnotes.com, "Dark Horse" is written in the key B ? minor. This follows the G chord? - D ? - B ? m - B ? m/A ? , and the vowel range from the low note B ? 3 to high notes D ? 5 . "Dark Horse" has a tempo of 132 beats per minute in a typical half-time style of musical traps.
A writer for Winnipeg Free Press described the song as "musing, trapping the amazing feast that appears like a stripped" ET "version blended with" Grindin '"by The Clipse," before proceeding to call it unpredictable, unconventional, and unstoppable.
Critical reception
Marc Hogan from Spin calls the lyrics "clichà ©  © salad" but believes that the song is potentially a hit because of its "soaring hook" and "sculpted production". Reviewing the song for Billboard , Jason Lipshutz says that by exploring trap-affected music, Perry "scores [d]" and "kill [ed]". Digital Knight Robert Copsey questioned the decision not to have the right chorus in "Dark Horse" and the entry of Juicy J, although he praised the "rotten" and "sultry" vocals of Katy Perry. He rated four stars out of five stars. Contributor Dylan Mial of Blogcritics says Perry's vocal "juxtaposition" and rap Juicy J brings "material for a perfect music storm" and supports Perry for the "uniqueness" of the single.
Keith Murphy of Vibe calls the song "very sexy", while John Walker of MTV is equally positive about the song, although he writes that Juicy's verse is "on the phone". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine likened the song to the Art of Noise's "Moments In Love" avant-garde band and called it "continuation" of "ET", and subsequently labeled it as "prominent" from Prisma . Although he did not give his opinion on the song as a whole, Helen Brown from The Daily Telegraph publication criticized Juicy J for his rap "sign". For AbsolutePunk, Craig Manning classifies "Dark Horse" as Prism ' s worst song, while also earning the rapper's contribution. Angry Eakin from The A.V. Club was not entirely critical of the song, although he noted that it was not one of "Perry's best".
The sound consequences of Chris Bosman have a mixed response - while he praises the song for feeling "vital" and "moving forward", he criticizes guest vocals and nonetheless regards the effect of the trap "trap for soccer mothers". Writing for ABC News, Mesfin Fekadu commented that "his team fare [d] better" in the song and observed that "Hip hop and southern flavor electronics" present on it is the factor that makes it "work". Pop music website Idolator Sam Lansky argues that the "weird traps" of the song "never really fused". The song was nominated for Best Song at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards, despite losing to Ariana Grande's "Problems". Has been nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
Accolades
Performance chart
North America
On Hot Billboard Hot 100, the song debuted at number seventeen in the week ending October 5, 2013. It also debuted at number four on the Hot Digital Songs chart with 194,000 downloads. In response to the unexpected success of "Dark Horse", Capitol Records executive VP Greg Thompson stated: "Katy is very aware of [the success of] 'Dark Horse'" and "It may be the next single.We watched it - and certainly appreciated the repetition - while still wanting ' Unconditional 'to run it fully ". In December, after his success as a single promotion, it was chosen as the third official single from Prism. In the week ending January 11, 2014, "Dark Horse" sold 285,000 copies (up 158%) ranked at number 7 on the Hot Hot Songs chart. The following week the song went up to number 6 on Billboard Hot 100, and number 4 on the Digital Song chart that sold 229,000 copies. The song became the 15th Top 10 song for the singer, and the first 10 songs of Juicy J on the chart. That same week, the song debuted at number thirty-four on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Song. The song also climbed to number fifteen on Billboard Pop Songs, which earned top honors. The following week the song beat Hot Digital Songs, sold 243,000 copies, and climbed to number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. On the weekend of February 1, 2014 "Dark Horse" took Hot Digital Song for the second week, selling 261,000 copies and rising to number 2 in Billboard Hot 100. The following week, February 8, the song still remained on Hot Digital Song adding 294,000 more units to the number of copies sold during the previous weeks. On January 29, 2014, "Dark Horse" reached number one position in the United States, giving Perry his ninth US number one and tying it up with four other artists with the tenth number in history, as well as being Juicy The first number one US hit. Perry also set a new record, becoming the only artist to have number one in each year in this decade so far. The song topped the chart for four consecutive weeks, from February 8 to March 1. Replaced by Pharrell Williams "Happy". The song also broke Perry's record for the longest stay in the top 10 for a single - such as "Dark Horse" has spent 22 weeks in the top ten so far, breaking the previous record set by "E.T." 20 weeks. The song has spent 52 weeks on Hot 100 on September 18, 2014, becoming Perry's first song to last at least a year on the charts. In May 2014, "Dark Horse" has sold over 5 million copies in the US, and became Perry's sixth song to surpass the 5 million mark. It became the third best-selling song of 2014 in the United States with 4.43 million copies sold for this year. In February 2017, the song has sold 6.3 million copies in the country, and has been certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
In addition to topping Hot 100, "Dark Horse" also occupies Pop songs, giving Perry his 11th number. This achievement tied him with Rihanna to a great extent on the Pop Songs chart. "Dark Horse" also occupied the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs so it became number 13 and broke his own record for the most consecutive number. The previous record set up on the second single "Unconditional" at the top of the charts is 12 consecutive numbers.
In Canada, the song has reached the top spot, becoming the country's tenth number one singer and the first Juicy J.
Oceania and Europe
At the end of the week of September 23, 2013, "Dark Horse" debuted at number ten on the New Zealand Singles Chart which became Perry's second 10th rank. Five weeks later, the song peaked at number two, and charted in the top 10 for a total of 16 weeks. It has gone on to receive double platinum certification, and spent 37 weeks over 40. In Australia, the song was not eligible to chart on the ARIA Top 100 Singles Chart but peaked at number five on the ARIA Top 50 Digital Tracks.
In the UK, on ​​September 22, 2013, "Dark Horse" debuted at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart. It re-entered the chart at number 19 on February 2, 2014. Four weeks later, it reached a new peak of number 4. On January 23, 2014 the song re-entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 47 then peaked at 3
At the end of the week of October 10, 2013, the song entered the Dutch Mega Top 100 chart at number 74, when "Dark Horse" was just a promotional song from this album. More than three months later, when the song was released as the third official single, "Dark Horse" went back into the charts at number 28. Six weeks later, the song topped the charts. The song also reached the top spot in the Top 40 of the Netherlands. In Austria, the Czech Republic, Norway and Sweden, the song peaked at number 2. "Dark Horse" also made it to the top 10 in Finland and Denmark where respectively peaked at number 5 and 6. "Dark Horse" occupied Belgium Ultratop 50 Flandre chart and reached the top 10 in other European countries such as France and Germany. In Italy, at the end of the week of March 13, 2014, the song entered the top 20 official FIMI at number 17 and, after five weeks, so far peaked at number 5. It has also been certified gold for the sale of 15,000 copies.
Music video
Background and production
In an interview with Billboard at the 2014 Grammy Awards, Juicy J declared the video to be filmed "soon"; he added that it was "a great movie." He further teases the release by saying, "I can not really tell you because it will surely be a surprise, but I'll tell you this much: you've seen another video, this one will be as big as everything.. "
When "Dark Horse" reached the top spot on the Hot 100 US Billboard Billboard, Perry announced he was working on a video. "On February 6, 2014, Perry tweeted the video to be released" soon. "On February 13, 2014, he released a music video preview to his Vevo account on YouTube, revealing Egyptian settings from the video Perry plays a character named" Katy PÃÆ'¤tra ", taking off on the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.The video was released on February 20, 2014.
The music video was directed by Mathew Cullen, who previously worked with Perry in his music video for the song "California Gurls". Perry's idea of ​​a music video is to combine Ancient Egyptian culture with Memphis, Tennessee hip hop: video arrangement in ancient Memphis, Egypt as a nod to the home town of Tennessee Juicy J. Speaking of Perry's concept, Cullen says "That's music in my ear - when a artists have some concepts they want to destroy to create something fresh. "
Synopsis
During the opening of the video, it was revealed that the music video took place "old crazy" in Memphis, Egypt. For the opening verses, Perry's character Katy PÃÆ'¤tra, the Memphis wizard, is shown wearing a white dress and white and blue wig as it floats on a large barge at sunset, with pyramids and palm trees visible in the background. Transition video to a different scene where PÃÆ'¤tra, now wearing longer dresses and black wigs, sits on a magnificent throne like the Sphinx while the pharaohs gather to carry expensive gifts (such as large diamonds) in an attempt to "win his heart."
After taking the first applicant's prize, he hit the man with a magical lightning strike from his hand, turning it into a pile of sand, and taking the gems to wear on his teeth as a grill. Other applicants bring sweets, cupcakes, twinkies, and spicy cheese puffs. After he burned his mouth with a spicy cheese puff, he turned the applicant into a large cup of water, which he drank. PÃÆ'¤tra also appears as a gray statue in scenes where golden snakes and gray guard statues like Anubis, Horus, Nisroch and Apep surround it, and in a scene with a blue background where he wears a gold dress and some gold hieroglyphs hovering around it.
During J's juicy verse, the rapper emerges from a gold sarcophagus while PÃÆ'¤tra receives an Egyptian train with hydraulics (he changes the applicant into a set of giant dice to hang from the frame) and rejects an applicant who turns out to have a crocodile face by turning it into a wallet. During the last choir, the last applicant brought PÃÆ'¤tra a large golden pyramid with a pink cornucopia, which he climbed. At the top of the pyramid, PÃÆ'¤tra, dressed as Isis, uses its power to create magical magic storms with pink, purple, and purple clouds. Although it seems that PÃÆ'¤tra has finally found a gift that he loves, the final frame of the video reveals that he has turned the last applicant into a dog with a human head.
Reception
The music video was criticized by some for adapting Egyptian cultural symbols and images. Cullen, the director, defended the music video, saying that, while he believes it is dangerous to tear something straight from the culture without adding anything to them, Ancient Egypt is part of what he calls our collective "collective mythology". He said: "The most important thing is when you make something, and this is actually something that I and Katy are working on - you bring a new spin to it." Egyptologist David P. Silverman praised the use of music videos from Egyptian imagery and interest that can be generated for viewers: "[Egypt has] always been a part of popular culture.This encourages people to think about these things, and some of them actually start learned a lot. "The video is noted by conspiracy theorists as having similarities to the image used by the alleged Illuminati, but Ritner rejects the accusation, saying that" much discussion about the Illuminati is nonsense "and that, in fact, dealing with the Illuminati is taken from the image of Egypt (as a common source for both).
On June 9, 2015, the music video for "Dark Horse" became the first video by a female artist to reach 1 billion views on Vevo. Perry also became the first woman to have videos on YouTube with 1 billion views. As of June 2018, the video has received more than 2.3 billion views on YouTube, making it the 14th most viewed video of all time.
Allegations of religious blasphemy
The music video caused controversy among some Muslims who criticized a scene in the video where a man dressed in a pendant appeared to display the Arabic word for "Allah" to have been destroyed and turned into sand by Perry's character. The scene lasts 1 minute and 15 seconds into the video. The petition launched at Change.org accused Perry of "representing God's opposition" and demanded that the video be removed from YouTube. The petition reached more than 65,000 signatures and in response, the pendant was digitally removed from the video on February 26, 2014, after the petition was closed.
Copyright infringement violations
On July 1, 2014, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that rapper Christian Flame and others filed suit against Perry, Capitol Records, and co-author Perry for infringing copyright on the song "Joyful Noise", which appeared on the album 2008 Our World: Redeemed . Flame's DJ, Cho'zyn Boy, states that Perry's song is "identical" with "Joyful Noise", but ten BPM are slower in tempo and one step higher on the field. In addition to the claim of infringement, the lawsuit claims that "by any measure, a religious message filled with deeds about" Happy Voice "has been corrected because of its relationship to magic, paganism, black magic, and Illuminati illumination caused by the same music in 'Black Horse '". Rapper Lecrae, shown on the song and mentioned in the lawsuit, clarified to MTV that "I was in Hong Kong [when] the press release came out and it was not my song - it was my Flame man song and I respect all intellectual property people - but the statement about magic and things, that's not my statement and I do not support that statement. "
Live show
"Dark Horse" was first performed at iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on September 20, 2013. It was then performed at the iTunes Festival in London. Perry also performed the song with Juicy J at We Can Survive at the Hollywood Bowl on October 23rd. Perry also performed "Dark Horse" on The Voice of Germany on December 13, 2013. Perry and Juicy J performed the song at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2014. The appearance of "dark and mysterious" featuring the design of "ghost forest" with animatronic horses, broom pole dance, and controlled fire. The singer also performed the song at the BRIT Awards 2014 and her show featured a neon-colored Egyptian theme, such as a music video.
On February 1, 2015, the song was performed by Perry during the Super Bowl XLIX show at break time, where he was on a chessboard, with his dancers as chess pieces. It was one of the most technical performances of the rest of the show.
Credits and Personnel
- Vocal Support, Main Vowel: Katy Perry
- Backing Vocals, Guest Vocals: Juicy J
- Songwriting: Katy Perry, Jordan Houston, Lukasz Gottwald, Sarah Hudson, Max Martin, Henry Walter
- Production: Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cirkut
Credits are adapted from Prism album liner notes.
Format and list track
- Digital downloads
- "Dark Horse" - 3:35
- Digital downloads - Japanese version
- "Dark Horse" (featuring TEE) - 3:35
- Single CD
- "Dark Horse" - 3:35
- "Dark Horse" (Johnson Somerset Remix) - 9:01
Diagram
Certification
Releasing history
See also
- List Billboard Hot 100 single number 2014
- List Billboard 100 top 10 singles in 2014
- Netherlands top-40 list in 2014
- List number 100 single number one from 2010 (US)
- List of Canadian Hot 100 single number 2014 single
- Mainstream List Hit number -40 in 2014 (US)
- List one number of the Billboard Stream Songs of 2014
- List of dance single number 2014 (U.S.)
- 2014's (2014) digital track list
- 2014 (Canada) number one digital song list
- On-Demand tracklist number one 2014
- Single number 2014 (Poland) list
- Top 10 singles list in 2014 (France)
- List of UK singles top 10 in 2014
References
External links
- "Black Horse" Audio on YouTube
- "Black Horse" Music Video on YouTube
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