Bossy

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"Bossy"
Image:Bossy cover.jpg
Single by Kelis featuring Too $hort
from the album Kelis Was Here
Released	January 31, 2006 (U.S.) September 4, 2006 (U.K.)
Format	Digital download, CD single, 12" single
Recorded	2005
Genre	Hip-hop
Length	04:34
Label	LaFace
Writer(s)	Mario Alonzo Shondrae Crawford Jasper Cameron Sean Garrett Kelis Rogers-Jones Todd Shaw
Producer(s)	Shondrae "Bangladesh" Crawford
Chart positions
#8 (Finland) #16 (USA Hot 100) #11 (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs) #18 (Pop 100) #18 (Australia, Spain) #22 (UK) #27 (Austria)
Kelis singles chronology
"In Public" (2005)	"Bossy" (2006)	"Blindfold Me" (2006)
Too $hort singles chronology
"Blow The Whistle" (2006)	"Bossy" (2006)

"Bossy" is the first single released from Kelis's 2006 album Kelis Was Here. The single features Too $hort and was released in May 2006. It peaked at number sixteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in its twelfth week on the chart. On Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the single peaked at number eleven. The track is Kelis's second biggest Hot 100 hit thus far, behind her 2003 release "Milkshake", which peaked at number three.

The track features a response to 50 Cent's 2005 single "Piggy Bank". In "Bossy", Kelis states "That's right, I brought all the boys to the yard/And that's right, I'm the one tattooed on his arm," in response to 50 Cent rapping, "Kelis said her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard/Then Nas went and tattooed the bitch on his arm" in his song. The lyric "I'm the first girl to scream on a track" refers to her debut single "Caught Out There", in which she "screamed" the chorus.

"Bossy" was featured in the season 3 finale episode of The O.C. ("The Graduates") first aired on May 18, 2006.

The single was released on 4 September, 2006 UK and became her smallest solo hit since "Young, Fresh 'n' New", peaking at #22. All four singles from the "Tasty" album made the top 20 there.

[edit] Track listings and formats

CD single [1]

Bossy (Radio Edit)
Bossy (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)

CD maxi single [2]

Bossy (Album Version)
Bossy (Cavemen Remix)
Bossy (Redsoul 8055Y Remix)
Bossy (Redsoul Onit Remix)
Bossy (SebastiAn Remix)
Bossy (CD-ROM Video)

12" maxi single [3]

Bossy (Album Version)
Bossy (Cavemen Remix)
Bossy (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Earth Out Remix)
Bossy (Switch Remix)

[edit] Video

Image:Kelisbossy.jpg

(Shot in February 2006 at Los Angeles; directed by Marc Klasfeld, produced by Rockhard Films Co.)

The [first] scene [of the video] takes shape with K waking up in her canopied bed on some Venetian lawn; she goes to the mirror and takes a few mincing snips at her fray of curls. A plucky synth becomes a compressed waltz… and then the 808 drums clap in, dividing the key line into alto plinks and basso (the original line soon to rejoin the music’s tenor-range), Kelis sends a bratty yelp of "I’m a boss!" into the camera, all of this happening at once, and we realize a split second later that the place, time and heroine have changed. We’re beside a channel and there’s her, in a swimsuit and fly shades, and with a new "Salt ‘n Pepa but 2010ish" haircut, doing her trademark breast-brush, doggy-hands dancing; it’s definitely a moment. Kelis’ indolent jiggy visually reps the slick friskiness that she brings to her vocal performance, the way she jump-starts the beat followed by her sultry echoing of “get down on the flo” with an inversion and sidelong glance, the track’s high-cooed harmonizing that starts on “Ooh, from the 6-4 heffas up in Crenshaw / The money-makin’ playas up in Harlem”, and plenty of etcetera making me ask Morris what he’s on about when he’s all “she does nothing with it”.
"Bossy" might be the most normalized video in a striking and eclectic Kelis repertoire that includes "Caught Out There", a Hype Williams epic of 2:35:1 proportions, and the black Björk-ish of "Get Along With You", but it’s the details and locales and vibe that work overtime here.
By shooting a lot of off-angles in a reserved color scheme (dull blues, greens and earth tones, splashes of red throughout), Marc Klasfeld -director- smartly keeps us removed from and envious of what we’re seeing; when he takes us down to the Ritz bar, it’s with half an iris. Kelis’ court is littered with a massive model entourage who don’t sport excessive bling but instead impress upon the viewer a very chic air of affluence, urban Ivy League style. But there are those pauses in the song where Kel murmurs, "Diamonds on my neck / Di-diamonds on my grill" and Klasfeld throws a couple more chips in the ante by letting close-ups drift over her ice, the necklace reading "Mrs. Jones" and reminding us that this wonderland’s queen is married to none other than Nas. At least in its video form, "Bossy" is a peephole looking in on an alluring upper-class world, one that’s just way too sexy and too damn cool.

- written by Chet Betz, Cokemachineglow.com [4]

Watch the "Bossy" video at Youtube.com: [5]
Watch the "Bossy - Behind The Scenes" video at Youtube.com: [6]

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	16
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Tracks	22
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	18
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	11
UK Singles Chart	22
UK Urban Singles Chart	7
Australian Singles Chart	18
Australian Urban Singles Chart	4
Brazil Hot 40 Dance Traxx	8
Finnish Singles Chart	8
Spanish Singles Chart	18
Swiss Singles Chart	41
German Singles Chart	64
Austrian Singles Chart	27
Quaday Hot 100 Singles Philippines	2