"The Call" | ||||
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Single by Backstreet Boys | ||||
from the album Black & Blue | ||||
Released | February 6, 2001 | |||
Recorded | July 1 [1] – September 2000 [2] | |||
Studio | Polar (Stockholm, Sweden) | |||
Genre | Pop, dance-pop, R&B, hip hop | |||
Length | 3:24 (Radio Version) 3:57 (Video Version) 3:53 (Neptunes Remix) | |||
Label | Jive, Trans Continental | |||
Songwriter(s) | Max Martin, Rami | |||
Producer(s) | Max Martin, Rami | |||
Backstreet Boys singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"The Call" on YouTube |
"The Call" is a song by American boy band Backstreet Boys. It was released on February 6, 2001, as the second single from their album Black & Blue (2000).
According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing Group, the song has a BPM of 100 and is played in the key of B-flat minor (with a key change to C minor). The band's vocal range spans from the low note F4 to the high note of Ab5. [3]
The song's bass sound is the sound of Howie Dorough's flatulence while recording the vocals, which producer Max Martin then turned into his signature bass sound. In 2017, Dorough said of the incident: "I got in the booth, was breathing in really heavily singing my part, and I guess some extra air kind of came out. It made everybody laugh, and Max decided to take that and sample it to turn it into the 'dun dun dun, dun dun dun dun.'" [4]
The music video for "The Call" was directed by Francis Lawrence. [5] For the video version of the song was edited to extend the length of the song. Additional telephone rings were added at the start, and one measure was added to both the break following the second chorus and the subsequent a cappella choral segment. A third repeat of the final chorus was also added.
Two cuts of the video were released. One featured the modified version, and the second featured the Neptunes Remix. The two versions were substantially the same; however, the differing arrangements of the two song versions resulted in the video being slightly re-edited to match. The Neptunes video also adds flashes of early in the video as callbacks near the end of the video; there is also an unreleased remix video using the Thunderpuss Club Mix and the Thunderdub of the song. Band member AJ McLean later admitted on The Oprah Winfrey Show , in an episode discussing his recovery from depression and drug and alcohol abuse, that he tried cocaine for the first time on the set of this video. The music video won at the MTV Asia Awards in 2002 for Favorite Video. The song also received two nominations at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards.
Complementing the lyrics to the song, the video tells the story of a man who is unfaithful to his girlfriend. He meets another lady in a nightclub and leaves the club with her instead of going home to his girlfriend (whom he calls to make up an excuse for being late home). Each of the five members of the Backstreet Boys portrays the cheating man progressively.
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Credits adapted from the European maxi single's liner notes. [6]
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [37] | Platinum | 8,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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