Guilty Pleasure (JoJo Siwa song)

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"Guilty Pleasure"
Single by JoJo Siwa
from the EP Guilty Pleasure
ReleasedJuly 12, 2024 (2024-07-12)
Studio The Musical Hub, Los Angeles, California
Genre Electropop [1]
Length2:35
Label Columbia Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
JoJo Siwa singles chronology
"Karma"
(2024)		"Guilty Pleasure"
(2024)

"Guilty Pleasure" is a song by the American singer JoJo Siwa taken from Siwa's fourth studio EP, Guilty Pleasure . She wrote the track with six other writers, most notably Meghan Trainor, and three of them also produced the song, together with DJ White Shadow. Columbia Records released the song as a single concurrently with its parent album on July 12, 2024.

Contents

An accompanying music video for "Guilty Pleasure", directed by Siwa and Marc Klasfeld, was released the same day as the single's release. It stars Siwa and various dancers. The video includes scenes with Siwa dressed provocatively acting promiscuous.

Background and release

Siwa announced the EP, her fourth original EP, on June 30, 2024. [2] "Guilty Pleasure" had its debut by Siwa at a recent performance at Trixie Mattel's New York City Pride celebration in Central Park. The reality star was excited to reveal the Guilty Pleasure EP's release date while performing live, even though her audience wasn't entirely responsive. Its music video debuted along with its release. [2]

Composition and lyrics

According to Her Campus, "Guilty Pleasure" is about Siwa suggesting her lover to make a move on her sexually, although it may also be a way of Siwa's acceptance of her infamous music career. Vulture noted it as "thumping and nonspecific electronic-pop." [3] [4]

Critical reception

"Guilty Pleasure" received mainly positive reviews upon release unlike Siwa's previous single "Karma." Vulture praised the song for it's upbeatness and catchiness, meanwhile The Cut complimented it's nostalgic sound calling it "a relic from 2012." [3] [5]

Music video

Siwa and Klasfeld wrote and directed the music video for "Guilty Pleasure." The music video was released on July 12, 2024, shortly after the single's release and received mainly negative reviews from critics and social media users alike with The Cut calling it "a horny montage of fog machines, pleather, dancing bears, and power tools." [6] [5] The video was choreographed by Richy Jackson whose choreography was also heavily criticized by social media users but was received well by critics. [7] [8] [9] The video features Siwa at a Guilty Pleasure House wearing a bra made of teddy bear heads along with rhinestone straps as she gets rowdy with adult-size teddy bears at a burlesque-style peep show. As the video continues she dances in a warehouse dressed as a construction worker in bedazzled attire and finally dressed as a bejeweled dark angel dances in a church with some people wearing dog collars and others dressed as nuns. [9]

Personnel

The following people worked on the song: [10]

Release history

Guilty Pleasure release history
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
VariousJuly 12, 2024 streaming Columbia Records [11]

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