Digital Girl

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"Digital Girl (Remix)"
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Single by Jamie Foxx featuring Drake, Kanye West and The-Dream
from the album Intuition
Released July 6, 2009
Format
Recorded 2008 (original album version)
2009 (remix featuring Drake)
Genre
Length4:47(album version without Drake)
4:38 (single version)
4:04 (radio edit)
4:24 (video version)
Label J Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Jamie Foxx singles chronology
"I Don't Need It"
(2009)		 "Digital Girl (Remix)"
(2009)		 "Speak French"
(2009)

"I Don't Need It"
(2009)		 "Digital Girl"
(2009)		 "Speak French"
(2009)
Drake singles chronology
"The One"
(2009) The One2009		 "Digital Girl"
(2009) Digital Girl2009		 "Money to Blow"
(2009) Money to Blow2009
Kanye West singles chronology
"Make Her Say"
(2009) Make Her Say2009		 "Digital Girl"
(2009) Digital Girl2009		 "Supernova"
(2009) Supernova2009
The-Dream singles chronology
"Throw It in the Bag"
(2009) Throw It in the Bag2009		 "Digital Girl"
(2009) Digital Girl2009		 "Sweat It Out"
(2009) Sweat It Out2009

"Digital Girl" is a song performed by Jamie Foxx, along with Kanye West and The-Dream, who also produces the song alongside Tricky Stewart. The song is the fourth track on Foxx's third studio album, Intuition , and will serve as the fourth single on the album according to Jamie Foxx on an MTV News interview. He also included that the single version would include the Young Money Entertainment consociate Drake, a version that was performed on the 10th episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien .

Jamie Foxx American actor, comedian, singer, and broadcaster

Eric Marlon Bishop, known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, and comedian. For his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. Since spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam.

Kanye West American rapper, singer, and record producer from Illinois

Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion designer. His musical career has been marked by dramatic changes in styles, incorporating an eclectic range of influences including soul, baroque pop, electro, indie rock, synth-pop, industrial and gospel. Over the course of his career, West has been responsible for cultural movements and progressions within mainstream hip hop and popular music at large.

The-Dream American singer-songwriter

Terius Youngdell Nash, better known by his stage name The-Dream, is an American record producer, songwriter, singer and rapper. His co-writing credits include songs with "Me Against the Music" (2003) for Britney Spears, "Ride" (2010) for Ciara, "Umbrella" (2007) for Rihanna, "Single Ladies " (2008) and "Partition" (2013) for Beyoncé and "Baby" (2010) for Justin Bieber. As a solo recording artist, he released five studio albums between 2007 and 2013: Love Hate (2007), Love vs. Money (2009), Love King (2010), Terius Nash: 1977 (2012) and IV Play (2013).

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Remix

The single version with Drake, Kanye West and The-Dream is the official remix of the original version, it was released on June 25, 2009, soon after the death of Michael Jackson, Jamie Foxx reworks the remix with a new beat, a new verse (from Jamie only) and a new bridge from The-Dream as a tribute and is called, "Digital Girl" (MJ Remix) or "Digital Girl" (West Coast Remix), it was released on July 17, 2009. The original remix released as a digital download on August 4, 2009.

Drake (musician) Canadian rapper, singer-songwriter and actor

Aubrey Drake Graham is a Canadian and American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. Drake initially gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the early 2000s. Intent on pursuing a career in music, he left the series in 2007 following the release of his debut mixtape, Room for Improvement. He released two further independent projects, Comeback Season and So Far Gone, before signing to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment in June 2009.

Death of Michael Jackson death

On June 25, 2009, the singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. His personal physician, Conrad Murray, said he found Jackson in his room, not breathing and with a weak pulse, and administered CPR on Jackson to no avail. After security called 9-1-1 at 12:21 p.m. local time, Jackson was treated by paramedics at the scene and pronounced dead at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

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A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9% of all music sales in the US in 2012. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made US$1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year.

Music video

The official music video for Digital Girl (Remix) world premiered on August 20, 2009. [1] On the video version of the song, after the 2nd chorus, the song goes to the instrumental of the MJ Remix of the song for The-Dream's verse (the bridge of the original remix) and Kanye West's verse and continues until the end of the video.

The music video was directed by Hype Williams and is similar to Lloyd's "Girls Around the World" music video, which was also directed by Williams.[ citation needed ]

Harold "Hype" Williams is an American music video director, film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

Lloyd Polite Jr., better known by his mononym Lloyd, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and actor. Lloyd began his career in music as a member of the preteen-boy band N-Toon. The group disbanded in 2001 and Lloyd embarked on a solo career in 2003. Lloyd subsequently signed a recording contract with Murder Inc. Records and Def Jam Recordings. In 2004, Lloyd released his solo debut single "Southside," the title track of his debut album, Southside. The single features Ashanti, and it quickly charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, and became a Top 40 hit. His second album Street Love, was released on March 13, 2007. It featured top-twenty hits "You" and "Get It Shawty."

Girls Around the World 2008 single by Lil Wayne and Lloyd

"Girls Around the World" is a song by American recording artist Lloyd. The song features rapper Lil Wayne and was written by Lloyd, along with Dwayne Carter, Eric Barrier, and William Griffin. The song was produced by his production team, Big Reese and Jasper Cameron, who also produced his breakthrough hit, "You", which also featured Lil Wayne. The song served as the lead single for Lloyd's third studio album Lessons in Love. "Girls Around the World" received positive to mixed reviews from critics, some of whom noted it as generic, and others named it as a top track from the album. It reached sixty-four on the Billboard Hot 100 and thirteen on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song samples "Paid in Full" by hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim. Lil Wayne's verse heavily reflects and interpolates Rakim's verse in "Paid in Full".

It ranked at #47 on BET's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2009 countdown.

Chart positions

Chart (2009)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 92
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 38 [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Jamie Foxx featuring Drake, Kanye West, and The-Dream - Digital Girl Official Music Video". WeLiveThis.com . Retrieved August 20, 2009.External link in |work= (help)
  2. ↑ "Top Hip-Hop and R&B Songs & Singles Charts". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
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