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Green Light
"Green Light" is an R&B/funk song written by Beyoncé Knowles, Sean Garrett, and Pharrell Williams for Knowles' second solo album B’Day (2006). Co-produced by Pharrell and Beyoncé, it was released as fifth UK single on July 30, 2007. Two weeks prior to physical release in the UK, the single managed to chart at number 152 on the UK Singles Chart (based solely on downloads). OCC compiles the Top 200 as the full sales chart for singles and albums, with Top 75 being officially charted. As of July 18, 2007, Green Light (Freemasons Remix) was added to the Radio 1 A-Playlist.
According to thelondonpaper, the "uh-oh-oh-oh-oh" vocal in the song is "a blatant steal" from the 2005 Amerie single "1 Thing". Amerie said that she was flattered by it and that she liked the song.
It was released as a single on August 13, 2007, and was recorded in Sony Music Studios.
The music video for "Green Light" was co-directed by Melina and Knowles herself. Shot in early February 2007, it was one out of eight previously unseen clips to appear on Knowles' B’Day Anthology Video Album. A one-minute music video for "Kitty Kat" serves as the intro for this video (only using the intro, 3rd verse, and an extended chorus).
The clip was inspired by Madonna's Human Nature but mainly by Robert Palmer's 1980's music videos, specifically by his 1985 single "Addicted to Love" and its "its stone-faced models pretending to play guitars." Knowles who called it the toughest video to shoot because of the pointe shoes she had to wear and dance in, described it as a "modern version" of Palmer's video. "I was pretending to be a rock star!," she said in an interview with MTV News. "The set reminded me of Vanity 6. I play a little bit of guitar ... (it) felt good in my hands." Beyoncé's invited her all-female tour band, Suga Mama, to make their second in a video after appearing in "Irreplaceable".
The video was also popular enough in the United States to reach the iTunes Top 10 R&B/Soul Videos chart, prior to any promotion for the song or any sort of release. The video has also reached the Top 100 Video downloads for all genres.
"Green Light"
Give it to mama
Give it give it
Give it to mama mama (oh)
Give it
Give it to mama mama
For some strange reason (huh)
You done pleasing me like it's OK (Oh oh ooooh)
Like a perm that's been left too long
It's like a burn
The result is it just won't take (Oh oh ooooh)
I can see
Now it's all coming so clear to me now
I can see
Misinterpreted all of my naiveness
Was just thinking if I had no you
Than I can't do
My stock just went up over 2 million
So if you want to (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (want to, want to) (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (uh uh huh uh uh)
Give it to mama
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go RED LIGHT (ah) GREEN LIGHT!
Some sillies say I should be trophied
Cause it gets no stronger (Oh oh ooooh)
Ladies ya'll know (yea girl ya'll know)
This pimp ish gets no older
Is that a threat (what's another threat)
Yep! (that's another threat)
From you, you can get no colder
You got the green light (whoa)
And you can't ride (whoa)
You holding up traffic
Green means go!!
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go RED LIGHT (I said you're holding up traffic green means go!!) GREEN LIGHT!
So if you want to (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (you got the green light babe!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (go!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (ooh!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (want to, want to) (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (uh uh huh uh uh)
Give it to mama
[Sung over go's]
Oh no problem you can go
I'm gon' find somebody else
So why not move along
You want a green light...so you can...GO!! (go, go, go)
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go RED LIGHT (ah) GREEN LIGHT!
I gave all I could give
My love, my heart (my heart)
Now we're facing the end (the end) of what you did from the start
My love
[Instrument Solo]
(You're holding up traffic, GREEN MEANS GO!!)
So if you want to (WHOA oh oh!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (WHOA oh oh!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (WHOA oh!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (WHOA oh oh!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (Go!) (want to, want to) (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (Go go go go!) (uh uh huh uh uh)
So if you want to (uh uh huh uh uh)
You got the green light (uh uh huh uh uh)
Give it to mama
[Sung over go's]
Oh no problem you can go
I'll go find somebody else
So why not move along
You want a green light...so you can...GO!! (go, go, go)
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go go goooo
Go go RED LIGHT (ah) GREEN LIGHT!
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