So What'cha Want

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"So What'cha Want"
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Single by Beastie Boys
from the album Check Your Head
B-side
  • "The Skills to Pay the Bills"
  • "Groove Holmes"
ReleasedJune 2, 1992
Studio G-Son Studios, Atwater Village, CA
Genre
Length3:36
Label Capitol
Songwriters
Producers
Beastie Boys singles chronology
"Pass the Mic"
(1992)		"So What'cha Want"
(1992)		"Jimmy James"
(1992)
Music video
"So What'cha Want" on YouTube

"So What'cha Want" is a song by American hip hop and rap rock group the Beastie Boys. It was released on June 2, 1992, as the second single from their third studio album, Check Your Head . The song appears in the video game Rock Band 2 . [1]

Contents

Music video

The music video, directed by band member Adam "MCA" Yauch under his alias of "Nathaniel Hörnblowér", simply has the Beastie Boys recite the song in a woodland, addressing the viewer by looking down at the camera which is at ground level, with clips of DJ Hurricane and Money Mark interspersed throughout along with mild psychedelic distortions of colors in the video. It was one of the first music videos to feature slow motion action while the artists' lips remained in sync with the sound track, an effect that would later become a mainstay of music videos. [2] The sky has a photo negative effect which was created by visualist Ash Beck, a direct allusion to the werewolf point-of-view in 1981 horror film Wolfen . Similarly, the infrared style incorporated during the band cutaways is an homage to the hunter vision in the film Predator (1987).

The video was featured in the 1993 "No Laughing" episode of Beavis and Butt-Head .

Track listing

  1. "So What'cha Want" (Single version) – 3:37
  2. "The Skills to Pay the Bills" (Original version) – 3:14
  3. "So What'cha Want" (Soul Assassin Remix version) (feat. B-Real of Cypress Hill) – 4:06
  4. "Groove Holmes" (LP version) – 2:34
  5. "So What'cha Want" (Butt Naked version) – 3:25
  6. "Groove Holmes" (Live vs. the Biz) – 6:10
  7. "So What'cha Want" (All the Way Live Freestyle version) – 3:37

Charts

Chart (1992/1993)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [3] 64
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [4] 93
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 21
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales [5] 26
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks [5] 18
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks [6] 22
US Cashbox Top 100 [7] 87

References

  1. ↑ Snow, Jean (July 14, 2008). "The Complete Rock Band 2 Track List". Wired. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ "How the Beastie Boys Revolutionized Music Videos". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  4. ↑ "Beastie Boys Album & Song Chart History". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
  5. 1 2 "Check Your Head – Beastie Boys – Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
  6. ↑ "Beastie Boys Album & Song Chart History". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
  7. ↑ "USA Cashbox Charts Summaries". popmusichistory. Retrieved December 16, 2022.


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