When the Sun Goes Down (Selena Gomez & the Scene album)

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When the Sun Goes Down
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Studio album by
Selena Gomez & the Scene
ReleasedJune 21, 2011 (2011-06-21)
RecordedNovember 2010 – May 2011
Studio
Genre
Length40:01
Label Hollywood
Producer
Selena Gomez & the Scene chronology
The Club Remixes
(2011)		When the Sun Goes Down
(2011)
Singles from When the Sun Goes Down
  1. "Who Says"
    Released: March 14, 2011
  2. "Love You like a Love Song"
    Released: June 17, 2011
  3. "Hit the Lights"
    Released: January 20, 2012

When the Sun Goes Down is the third and final studio album by American band Selena Gomez & the Scene, released on June 21, 2011, by Hollywood Records. The band worked with several artists on this album, including writers and producers from their debut, Kiss & Tell (2009), and their second album, A Year Without Rain (2010), such as Rock Mafia's Tim James and Antonina Armato, as well as Katy Perry, Devrim "DK" Karaoglu, and Toby Gad. New contributors to this album included Britney Spears, Priscilla Renea, Emanuel Kiriakou, Dreamlab and Sandy Vee.

Contents

When the Sun Goes Down spawned three singles. The lead single from the album, "Who Says" was released in March 2011, peaking at number 21 in the United States and in the top twenty in Canada and New Zealand. The acoustic pop song also went Platinum in the United States. The second single from the album is "Love You like a Love Song" charted in the top forty in Belgium, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The third and final single, "Hit the Lights" was released on January 20, 2012. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with sales 78,000 copies, surpassing the first week sales of the group's first two albums. The album rose to number three in its second week. As of January 2020, the album sold over 710,000 copies in the United States. [1] This is the final album released by the group before their indefinite hiatus.

Background

In 2009, the band released their debut album, Kiss & Tell , and quickly followed-up with 2010's A Year Without Rain . [2] After the release of the latter Gomez said that she was not in a rush to release another album, but after hearing "Who Says", she decided to begin another release, calling the song "amazing" and crediting it for inspiring her. [2] "Who Says" debuted on radio show On Air with Ryan Seacrest as the first single of the album. [3] On March 18, 2011, in an interview with MTV, Gomez revealed, "the third record is really fun, and there's a song called 'Hit the Lights' that I love, and it's basically about every missed opportunity that you've had," she said. "But it's also a dance track. There's a lot more depth [on this album]". [4] Gomez also revealed British recording artist Pixie Lott and German producer Toby Gad had both penned tracks for the album, while confirming its release for Summer 2011. [4] A few days later, the singer revealed her team and the band "haven't decided [a] title [yet for the album] and we're dealing with the album artwork, 'cause it is very different and I'm growing up. It's a lot more mature". [5] MTV News later confirmed that American recording artist Britney Spears had also written a song for the album titled "Whiplash". [6] On June 1, 2011, the album's name, When the Sun Goes Down, and track listing were revealed through Gomez's official website. [7] After several songs from When the Sun Goes Down started to leak online, Gomez posted several video messages on her YouTube official channel featuring commentaries about each song of the album. [8] When the Sun Goes Down was released on June 28, 2011 by Hollywood Records. [9]

Composition

Musically, When the Sun Goes Down expands on the dance-pop [10] and electropop [11] themes of its predecessor "A Year Without Rain", with a lighter and sassier feel, according to Tim Sendra of AllMusic also incorporating electro-disco music. [12] Tracks like "Hit the Lights" have disco influences, as they pair ballad lyrics with uptempo and midtempo dance music. The album also explores organic instrumentation. [13] Both the first single "Who Says" and the fourth track "We Own the Night" featuring Pixie Lott features more acoustic, indie pop sounds, which was originally intended for Kelly Clarkson's fifth album Stronger . They are the only songs on the album devoid of synthesized instrumentation. [14] [15]

The first track, "Love You Like a Love Song", was written by Antonina Armato, Tim James, Adam Schmalholz and was produced by Rock Mafia and Devrim Karaoglu. Also serving as the album's second single, the song contains deep, whispered vocals and incorporates a eurodisco rhythm and a soft dubstep influence. Gomez described the promotional single "Bang Bang Bang" as fun and cheeky. It is made up of 1980s electro-disco synths and sees Gomez praising her new boyfriend while mocking her ex. [16] The track was also compared to British electropop duo La Roux's 2009 hit "Bulletproof". [12] "Who Says" is an acoustic self-empowerment anthem where the singer extends kindness and sympathy to her critics. Serving as the album's first single, it debuted on the Hot 100 at number twenty-four and peaked at number twenty-one, standing as the group's highest charting single in the U.S., Canada and New Zealand. "We Own the Night" was written by Toby Gad and British electronic soul singer-songwriter Pixie Lott, who is also featured on backing vocals. The track has a largely acoustic, harmonic sound paired with escapist lyrics in the style of Jimmy Buffett. "Hit the Lights" written by Leah Haywood, Daniel James, Tony Nilsson and produced by Dreamlab is a dance song about overcoming anxiety and living in the moment. American pop singer Britney Spears composed the album's sixth track titled "Whiplash". It is an electropop song [15] described as electro glam [13] that is about an intense romance, featuring transportation imagery. The song has gained notability for Britney Spears' involvement in the composition, Gomez' faux-English accent in the spoken word verse before the chorus, [13] and for being one of the band's more mature songs.

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When the Sun Goes Down features contributions from a variety of artists including Britney Spears (left), Katy Perry (center) and Pixie Lott (right).

The title track features the use of electric guitars and stuttering synthesizers. [17] Selena Gomez stated that "When the Sun Goes Down" held a special meaning for her and her bass player, Joey Clement, because of their collaborative involvement in the track's composition. Gomez commented "I got to rewrite the bridge of it as well. It felt like we got to do that as a band." [16] The eighth track on the album is "My Dilemma", a Kelly Clarkson-esque pop rock song about conflicted feelings towards a potential breakup. [16] "That's More Like It", the following track, is penned by Katy Perry [15] and was inspired by American women of the 1950s and their relegation to domesticity. [16] In the song, Gomez demands that her negligent man does the cooking, cleaning, and housework, commanding him "Make me dinner and bring it to me." "Outlaw" is a bleak cautionary tale and revenge ballad lyrically similar to Carrie Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova" and Lady Gaga's "Monster". The lyrics also make use of Wild West imagery and references to Gomez's home state of Texas, "I'm from the Lone Star state, I'm ready to bring you in." The album's final song "Middle of Nowhere" is a dance-pop ballad that features electropop beats and synthesizers along with bells and chimes. In the song, Gomez laments being left behind by a manipulative ex lover, for whom she made drastic personal changes. [16] The song's bridge is a deep and heavily-breathed spoken-word recitation of the song's chorus, much in the style of Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson. A Spanish-language version of the lead single "Who Says" titled "Dices" is featured as a bonus track.

Singles

The album's lead single, "Who Says", was co-written and produced by Emanuel Kiriakou, Priscilla Hamilton, and was released on March 14, 2011. The song has been met with generally positive reviews from most music critics, with many praising its theme of self-empowerment [18] [19] and Bill Lamb of About.com even called the band "the most consistent Disney pop hitmaker in recent years." [20] The song proved moderately successful, debuting at number twenty-four and so far peaking at number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 and has gone on to sell over a million copies in the United States, and was certified platinum by RIAA. [21] "Who Says" also reached number seventeen in Canada and fifteen in New Zealand, becoming the band's highest charting single on those countries. [22] [23] The song also managed to peak inside the top fifty in Germany [24] and Ireland [25] and appeared on the main charts in the United Kingdom, [26] Belgium, [23] Australia, [27] Austria, Thailand and Vietnam. On June 17, 2011, "Love You Like a Love Song", the album's official second single was released. [28] Gomez started filming the music video for "Hit the Lights" in September 2011. [29] The video was released in November 2011, the song has currently attained the top thirty chart position in Belgium and debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number ninety-three. A remixes EP was released for "Hit the Lights" on January 20, 2012 [30] and it was officially released as the third and final international single on January 20, 2012.

Promotional singles

In preparation for the album's release, the band's record label decided to release two buzz singles. On June 7, 2011, iTunes released two promotional tracks from the album. Beginning with "Bang Bang Bang", which peaked ninety-four in the Billboard Hot 100, [31] and followed by a Spanish version of "Who Says", titled "Dices".

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 58/100 [32]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Club Fonograma (64/100) [33]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [12]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [34]

When The Sun Goes Down generally received mixed reviews from the music critics, At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 58 out of 100, which indicates "mixed or average reviews" based on six reviews. [32]

Mikael Wood from Entertainment Weekly wrote that "[Gomez] sounds fully invested in tart electro-disco ditties like 'Bang Bang Bang'," and that "top-shelf collaborators don't hurt." [12] Tim Sendra, writing for AllMusic, called the album "an improvement over 2010's A Year Without Rain and "fun" but felt that "she seems to be acting out the songs, more than actually feeling the emotions she's singing about" and that "if she wants to make a real impact, she'll need to dig a little deeper or stake out her own territory." [13]

Jody Rosen from Rolling Stone had a more negative review, writing that "she brings nothing in the way of personality to her songs" and that "Gomez may be the most boring teen-pop star of her generation. She makes Ashley Tisdale seem like Lady Gaga." [11] John Bergstrom of PopMatters opined that the album "smacks of cold calculation" and that "it could have been conceived, designed, written and produced by a computer program, the only human input being those of Gomez's vocals" while adding that "here you have 27 songwriters and eight production teams contributing to a total of 11 songs. Is this an album or "Iron Man 3?" [35] Kitty Empire of The Guardian wrote that "throughout this dance-pop album there's a catch in her throat that suggests an embryonic personality." [34]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2011 Teen Choice Awards Choice Music: Single"Who Says"Won
Choice Music: Love Song"Love You Like a Love Song"Won
2012 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards Most Streamed Video of the YearNominated
2012 Teen Choice Awards Choice Music: Single by a GroupWon
2012 MTV Video Music Awards Best Female Video Nominated

Commercial performance

When the Sun Goes Down was released on June 28, 2011. In the week of July 4, 2011, it debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with the band's highest sales week to date, selling 78,000 copies in its first week. The next week the album rose to number three, selling 44,000 copies, making it the band's highest charting album. In Canada, the album sold 9,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart. [36] The album debuted in Spain at number two on the Spanish Albums Chart. The album peaked there for three weeks, during the debut week and the fifth and sixth week on the chart. In Belgium, the album debuted at number twenty-one on the Belgian Albums Chart and jumped to its peak position at number six. The album debuted and peaked at number six in Mexico. The album debuted at number sixteen in Norway and rose to its peak position at number 6 in its eighth week. [37] The album has sold over 710,000 copies in the United States.

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes [38]

When the Sun Goes Down – Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Love You like a Love Song"
3:08
2."Bang Bang Bang"
Gad3:15
3."Who Says"
Kiriakou3:16
4."We Own the Night" (featuring Pixie Lott)
Gad3:47
5."Hit the Lights"
 Dreamlab 3:14
6."Whiplash"
Kurstin3:40
7."When the Sun Goes Down"
Abingdon3:16
8."My Dilemma"
  • Armato
  • James
  • Karaoglu
  • Rock Mafia
  • Karaoglu [a]
3:10
9."That's More Like It"
  • Alexander
  • Steinberg
3:09
10."Outlaw"
  • Gomez
  • Armato
  • James
  • Thomas Armato Sturges
  • Rock Mafia
  • Karaoglu [a]
  • Sturges [a]
3:22
11."Middle of Nowhere"
3:27
12."Dices" (Spanish version of "Who Says")
  • Kiriakou
  • Portmann [c]
  • Cortazar [c]
3:16
Total length:40:01
When the Sun Goes Down – United Kingdom iTunes Store edition (bonus video) [39]
No.TitleLength
13."Love You like a Love Song" (Behind the Scenes)3:54
When the Sun Goes Down – Canadian iTunes Store standard edition [40]
No.TitleLength
12."Who Says" (SmashMode Radio Remix)3:21
Total length:43:22
When the Sun Goes Down – Target and ASDA edition [41]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."Fantasma de Amor" ("Ghost of You" – Spanish version)
  • Jeberg
  • Portmann [c]
  • Cortazar [c]
3:24
14."A Year Without Rain" (Dave Audé Radio Remix)
4:00
15."Who Says" (Bimbo Jones Radio Remix)
  • Kiriakou
  • Hamilton
2:51
16."Who Says" (Dave Audé Radio Remix)
  • Kiriakou
  • Hamilton
3:35
Total length:53:51
When the Sun Goes Down – Japanese edition [42]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."Who Says" (Dave Audé Radio Remix)
  • Kiriakou
  • Hamilton
3:33
14."Round & Round" (7th Heaven Radio Mix)
3:42
15."A Year Without Rain" (Fascination Club Radio Edit)
  • Gad
  • Robbins
  • Gad
  • Fascination [f]
3:50
Total length:51:06
When the Sun Goes Down – Japanese edition (bonus DVD) [42]
No.TitleDirector(s)Length
1."Who Says" (music video)Chris Applebaum3:21
2."Love You like a Love Song" (music video)
  • Geremy Jasper
  • Georgie Greville
3:41
3."Who Says" (behind the scenes) 3:21
4."Love You like a Love Song" (behind the scenes) 3:41
Total length:14:04
When the Sun Goes Down – Digital deluxe edition [43]
No.TitleLength
13."Love You like a Love Song" (Dave Audé Radio Mix)3:17
14."Love You like a Love Song" (Dave Audé Club Mix)6:28
15."Love You like a Love Song" (Jump Smokers Radio Remix)4:11
16."Love You like a Love Song" (Jump Smokers Club Remix)4:36
17."Love You like a Love Song" (DJ Escape and Tony Coluccio Radio Remix)3:16
18."Love You like a Love Song" (DJ Escape and Tony Coluccio Club Remix)6:38
19."Love You like a Love Song" (Mixin Marc and Tony Svejda Radio Remix)3:59
20."Love You like a Love Song" (Mixin Marc and Tony Svejda Club Remix)5:49
Total length:78:15

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes [38]

Credits

Charts

Certifications

Country Certification
( sales thresholds)		Copies
ArgentinaPlatinum [71] 40,000
Brazil Gold [72] 20,000
Canada Platinum [73] 80,000
ChilePlatinum [71] 10,000
EcuadorPlatinum [71] 6,000
HondurasPlatinum [71] 5,000
Indonesia Gold [74] 10,000
Mexico Gold [72] 30,000
Poland Gold [75] 10,000
Singapore Gold [76] 5,000
Spain Gold [77] 20,000
United Kingdom Silver [78] 60,000
United States Gold [79] 707,000
Venezuela Platinum [71] 10,000

Release history

RegionDateLabel
AustraliaJune 21, 2011 Hollywood Records,
Festival Mushroom Records,
Warner Music Australia
Belgium Universal Music
China
AustriaJune 24, 2011
Czech Republic
Germany
IrelandJune 27, 2011Hollywood Records
New ZealandJune 28, 2011
United States
Spain Universal Music
CanadaHollywood Records
FranceJuly 4, 2011 Fascination Records
United KingdomJuly 4, 2011 Fascination Records
NetherlandsJuly 12, 2011Universal Music
JapanSeptember 14, 2011 [80] Avex Group

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