"Nasty Girl"
Single by Destiny's Child
from the album Survivor
ReleasedMarch 4, 2002 (2002-03-04)
RecordedJuly 2000[1]
GenreR&B
Length4:18
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Destiny's Child singles chronology
"8 Days of Christmas"
(2001)		 "Nasty Girl"
(2002)		 "Lose My Breath"
(2004)
Music video
"Nasty Girl" on YouTube

"Nasty Girl" is a song recorded by American group Destiny's Child for their third studio album Survivor (2001). Written by Maurizio Bassi, Naimy Hackett, and its producers Beyoncé Knowles and Anthony Dent, it features a distinct vocal interpolation of Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It" (1987) and Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy" (1985).[2] The song was released as the fourth and final single from Survivor outside North America on March 4, 2002, by Columbia Records.

A moderate commercial success, "Nasty Girl" reached the top ten in Australia and the top 30 in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Sanaa Hamri.[3] The song's Maurice's Nu Soul remix served as the second single from the group's remix album This Is the Remix (2002), following the Rockwilder remix of "Bootylicious".[4]

Music video

The music video for "Nasty Girl" starts out with close-ups of the girls chanting the opening lyrics. It transfers to a woman (portrayed by Tiffany Shepis)[5] in a pink fur jacket, a thong, tight pants, high heels and strawberry blonde hair. She’s carrying bags, walking down a neighborhood sidewalk with women turning their heads to look and men pointing at her and talking amongst themselves. She trips and falls when Knowles sings the lyrics "Change don't come your way it will come back to you", causing everyone around her to ridicule her. After the chorus, it changes to two women walking out of a corner store and past a man eating a sandwich. Two guys standing there try to push their friend into the girls, but he slows down and starts to talk to one of the girls. The girl starts to wrap her gum around her finger but gets tangled in her hair and a piece of weave comes out.

The screen changes to a woman dancing with a man in a club, but he dislikes the way she is dancing. He tries to calm her down but she accidentally elbows him in the face and upon seeing what she did, she shows apathy and walks away. It switches to a room full of the previous girls and more in a line waiting to be put in a machine called the "NastyZapper" which transforms them into women with better clothes and hairstyles. Destiny's Child are also in a room with brown and gold tiles and a gold wall in the back. They are also seen sitting on a couch eating popcorn in Dark Blue and gold dresses watching each of the women in the video. The previously transformed women join the girls in the brown and gold room in the end.

The music video was sent to European and Australian music channels in two versions: a video with an edited "album version" and another video with the "Maurice's Nu Soul Remix Edit", which also uses other scenes at some parts. The original video was featured as an enhanced video on the European CD maxi release of the single.

Track listings

All tracks written by Beyoncé Knowles, Anthony Dent, Maurizio Bassi, and Naimy Hackett.

European CD enhanced single
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Nasty Girl" (Album Version)
4:17
2."Nasty Girl" (Maurice's Nu Soul Remix Edit)
3:59
3."Nasty Girl" (Azza's Nu Soul Mix)
  • Knowles
  • Dent
  • Kay "Azza" Fingers[a]
5:17
4."Nasty Girl" (Music video)  
European 2-track single[6]
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Nasty Girl" (Radio Edit)
  • Knowles
  • Dent
3:31
2."Nasty Girl" (Maurice's Nu Soul Remix Edit)
  • Knowles
  • Dent
  • Joshua[a]
3:59
Vinyl single
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Nasty Girl" (Maurice's Nu Soul Remix Edit)
  • Knowles
  • Dent
  • Joshua[a]
3:59
2."Nasty Girl" (Azza's Nu Soul Mix)
  • Knowles
  • Dent
  • Fingers[a]
5:17
3."Nasty Girl" (Charlie's Nu Tech Dub)
  • Knowles
  • Dent
  • Charlie "DP3" Rosario[a]
9:25
4."Nasty Girl" (Album Version)
  • Knowles
  • Dent
4:17

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies additional producer(s)

Charts

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[21] Gold 35,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Nasty Girl"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
France March 4, 2002 Maxi CD Sony Music
Germany March 25, 2002
Australia May 20, 2002 Maxi CD

References

  1. ↑ "Destiny's Child: Someday We'll be Together | EW.com". www.ew.com. Archived from the original on April 9, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  2. ↑ Basham, David (April 20, 2001). "Destiny's Child Sample Stevie Nicks, More On Survivor". MTV News. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Destiny's Child – "Nasty Girl"". MVD Base. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
  4. 1 2 "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ Shepis, Tiffany [@tiffanyshepis] (September 10, 2019). "Thanks to whoever image grabbed this fun shot of me from the rare find DESTINYS CHILD video I stared in years ago. Search Nasty Girl. #destinyschild #beyonce #nastygirl #videohoe". Retrieved September 11, 2022 – via Instagram.
  6. ↑ "Destiny's Child".
  7. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Issue 659" ARIA Top 40 Urban Singles. National Library of Australia. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl". Tracklisten. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 20, no. 19. May 4, 2002. p. 15. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Irish-charts.com – Discography Destiny's Child". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 14, 2002" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  18. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  19. ↑ "Destiny's Child – Nasty Girl". Singles Top 100. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  20. ↑ "ARIA Top 100 Singles for 2002". ARIA. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  21. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  22. ↑ "Nasty girl – Destiny's Child – CD maxi single" (in French). France: Fnac. March 4, 2002. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  23. ↑ "Nasty Girl". Amazon./de.
  24. ↑ "The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 20th May 2002" (PDF). ARIA. May 20, 2002. p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2008. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
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