Later on the album, Halsey declares that they’re not a woman, but a god.
There’s meaning behind that venomous delivery, too: clever Biblical allusions (“If you’re a hater, then hate the creator / It’s in your image I’m made”) and poetic turns of phrase (their heart is “a permanent part of me, that innocent artery”). Just listen to them scream and snarl the chorus, overpowering shredded guitars and pounded drums. It isn’t a coincidence that the best of these songs, “Easier Than Lying,” is also the heaviest - it’s Halsey fully giving into the experiment, to spectacular results. Then there was Halsey, turning away from pop stardom to work with their heroes Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and make the most unique rock statement of the year in the process, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. Many of the songs that resulted gave us reason to do the same, when we desperately needed it most.Īs rock music has returned to the top of the charts over the past few years, some trends have coalesced: a revival of 2000s pop-punk, rappers building songs from guitar samples. This year, musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, they experimented within and outside their genres, and - especially compared to the songs that captured the unease of 2020 - many of them loosened up and had some fun. Maybe you noticed it in the best songs of 2021 too, which also felt like signs of new life. Restaurants, bars, and crucially, concerts, buzzed once again even if you still didn’t feel up to any of that, you could notice the shift in energy just walking down a city street. Thanks to the miracle of COVID-19 vaccines, this year became one when many people, at least in the U.S., could reconnect with old friends and feasibly make new ones. Grande and Gillies performed and debuted the song on the Sweetener World Tour on November 19, 2019, in Atlanta.Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Getty Images Upon the release of Victorious, "Give It Up" charted on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 at #23, along with the Victorious cast's version of " I Want You Back", charting at #8 based on the strength of digital downloads. The lyrics suggest building tension in a relationship while telling of a male without authoritative qualities.īob Hoose and Steven Isaac of Plugged In Online, in their review of the soundtrack, commented about the song, writing that it “puts the physically aggressive high heel on the other foot as the female singers push a boy to "come a little closer" ("At the end of the night/It's the same old story/But you never get it right/Give it up … Take a backseat, boy/'Cause now I'm driving").” Chart performance It received comparisons to the sound and lyrical content of “Lady Marmalade”, the 2001 song performed by recording artists Mýa, Pink, Christina Aguilera and Lil Kim for the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. The overall sound of the song received to the musical stylings of American dance-pop singer Britney Spears. The song has an aggressive sound that features the use of keyboard effects. It is composed a pop song with urban and electropop characteristics. "Give It Up" is an up-tempo song that lasts for two minutes and forty five seconds.
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It also played in the iCarly crossover special, "iParty with Victorious", in which the cast of Victorious were featured in the series counted only as an iCarly episode. The song was played in the background during the iCarly episode "iLove You". The performance features the two actresses reprising their roles as Jade West and Cat Valentine, signing on stage at a fictional karaoke restaurant in California. "Give It Up" was performed by Elizabeth Gillies and Ariana Grande, the two main cast members of the television show, on the soundtrack and in the two-part special. The Freak Out, which premiered on November 26, 2010.
The song was first featured on the season one two-part episode FreakĮlizabeth Gillies, who performed it with Ariana It was selected as one of the twelve to thirteen songs that would be on the Victorious soundtrack to the Nickelodeon television series Victorious, which was released on August 2, 2011. "Give It Up" was written by Michael Corcoran, CJ Abraham and Dan Schneider, while the production was helmed by Corcoran and Abraham under their production names, Backhouse Mike and The Super Chris. 6 Lyrics ( Liz stands for Elizabeth Gillies).