"Fuck Apologies" | ||||
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Single by JoJo featuring Wiz Khalifa | ||||
from the album Mad Love | ||||
Released | July 28, 2016 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Recorded | 2016 | |||
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Length | 3:15 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
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"Fuck Apologies.", also titled "No Apologies." for the radio edit, is a song by American singer JoJo, featuring Wiz Khalifa from her third studio album, Mad Love (2016). It was released on July 28, 2016, by Atlantic Records as the album's lead single and impacted American contemporary hit radio on August 16, 2016. The song was written by JoJo and Khalifa with Taylor Parks, Oscar Holter, Matt Friedman, and Whiskey Water and was produced by Holter and Friedman.
Following the simultaneous release of JoJo's "Tringle" in August 2015, JoJo embarked on her worldwide second headlining "I Am JoJo Tour". Which saw her visit 23 cities nationwide with several international dates in Europe. Initially the tour and release of "Tringle" release was a reintroduction for JoJo into the industry with a major label backing that had been lacking from her previous label. At the time a large portion of the album had already been recorded, While the "Tringle" was set to appear on JoJo's third album as the first three singles from the album that would each receive service to top 40 radio at different stages leading up to the impending album release. During the tour, Levesque's father Joel died in November due to struggles with addiction and she also broke up with her boyfriend of two years.
Following the tour in December 2015, Levesque took a 6-day rest from work during the first week of January, where JoJo booked a hotel and spent time with herself and re-evaluated her life. As a result, JoJo was unhappy with the approach the album was taking and decided to "take control" and begun re-recording and re-writing the entire album to fit her new feelings and emotions. The end result was the "Infectious" lead single.
"Fuck Apologies" is an up-tempo pop and R&B song that infuses twangy guitar rhythms, with a running duration of three minutes and fifteen seconds. It was written by Joanna Levesque, Taylor Parks, Cameron Thomaz, Jason Dean, Oscar Holter, Matt Friedman and Joseph Kirkland while the songs production was handled by Matt Friedman and Oscar Holter for Wolf Cousins Productions. Noah "Mailbox" Passovoy handled the songs vocal production along with Levesque, which were recorded by Ryan Gladieux and Noah "Mailbox" Passovoy at Atlantic Studios and EastWest Studios in Hollywood, California. The track was engineered for mix by John Hanes, and mixed by Serban Ghenea at Mixstar Studios in Virginia Beach, VA. It was mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound in New York.