Give It Up (Victorious song)

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"Give It Up"
Song by Victorious cast featuring Elizabeth Gillies and Ariana Grande
from the album Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show
ReleasedAugust 2, 2011
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Length2:45
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"Give It Up" is a song by the Victorious cast featuring American actresses and singers Elizabeth Gillies and Ariana Grande. The song first appeared on a one-hour Victorious special on November 26, 2010, and features Gillies and Grande singing it. The track was then officially released on the show's debut soundtrack album Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show on August 2, 2011.

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The track is a pop, teen pop, and R&B track with lyrics about a girl telling a boy to approach her. "Give It Up" received positive reviews from music critics, with some praising Gillies and Grande's vocals. The song peaked at number 23 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and number three on the US Kid Digital Song Sales chart. Grande performed the song live with Gillies during her Sweetener World Tour in November 2019.

Background and release

"Give It Up" first appeared on the Nickelodeon American television sitcom Victorious in a one-hour special titled "Freak the Freak Out" on November 26, 2010. [1] [2] The episode features Tori Vega (Victoria Justice) and her friends attending a weekly singing competition at Karaoke Dokie, a fictional karaoke bar. Tori's friends, Jade West (Elizabeth Gillies) and Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande), enter a singing competition and perform "Give It Up" together. [3] [4] [5] It was then released as the seventh track on the show's debut soundtrack album Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show on August 2, 2011. [6] [7] [8]

Writing and lyrics

"Give It Up" was written by Victorious producer Dan Schneider, Michael Corcoran, and CJ Abraham, with production being handled by Corcoran and Abraham. [9] "Give It Up" has been described as a pop, [3] [10] teen pop, [11] and R&B, [3] [12] track. Lyrically, the song is about a girl inviting a boy to approach them: "At the end of the night/It's the same old story/But you never get it right/Give it up ... Take a backseat, boy/'Cause now I'm driving." [13] Zahraa Schroeder, writing for Smile 90.4FM, stated that the song has "low notes at the start", and that Grande's section "gets all the crazy high notes". [14]

Reception

In August 2011, "Give It Up" debuted and peaked at number 23 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, lasting one week. [15] It also peaked at number three on the US Kid Digital Song Sales chart. [16]

Jack Irvin of People magazine called the track as "memorable", [10] with Marcus Jones of Entertainment Weekly labeling it as an "iconic karaoke number". [17] Jacquez Printup for Yardbarker stated that the "Give It Up" would "always be [number one] in my eyes" when talking tracks featured on Victorious. [18] Kristen S. Hé and Andrew Unterberger, writing for Billboard magazine, put the track at number 123 on their Every Ariana Grande Song, Ranked: Critic's Picks list, opining that the track "aged surprisingly well" while describing it as a "banger". They noted that Grande's vocals on "Give It Up" have a "deeper, brassier tone" compared to her other tracks while describing Gillies as "the star" of the song. [11]

Writing for Her Campus , Megan Gaertner and Allison Kane placed the song at number seven on their The Best Songs from Victorious list, describing the track as a "great song" and "girl-power anthem" that has "powerful vocals". [19] Justin Curto Vulture compared the track to the works of Christina Aguilera, [3] while William Ruhlmann of AllMusic expressed his dislike of the song, calling it a "Britney Spears reject". [8] Bob Hoose and Steven Isaac for Plugged In compared the song to "Lady Marmalade" which was written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan. [13]

Live performances and other usages

In November 2019, Grande resumed her Sweetener World Tour after missing a concert due to illness. On November 19, 2019, she posted on her Twitter account about working on a special project, saying, "Guys I can't tell u why yet, but I'm so excited for tonight. I've never felt this way. Goodbye." Later that night, at a concert in Atlanta, Georgia, Grande surprised her fans by having Gillies walk on stage to perform "Give It Up" with her. [20] [21] Jack Irvin of People described it as a "nostalgic rendition". [22] "Give It Up" was played as a background track on two episodes of another Nickelodeon show iCarly . [23]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [9]

Charts

Chart performance for "Give It Up"
Chart (2011)Peak
position
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [15] 23
US Kid Digital Song Sales ( Billboard ) [16] 3

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