"Get 'Em Girls" | |||||||||||
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Single by Jessica Mauboy featuring Snoop Dogg | |||||||||||
from the album Get 'Em Girls | |||||||||||
Released | 17 September 2010 | ||||||||||
Format | Digital download | ||||||||||
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Length | 3:56 | ||||||||||
Label | Sony | ||||||||||
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Producer(s) | Bangladesh | ||||||||||
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"Get 'Em Girls" is a song by Australian R&B recording artist Jessica Mauboy. The song features American rapper Snoop Dogg, who co-wrote the song with David Buchanan and producer Bangladesh for her second studio album of the same name. It was released as the album's lead single on 17 September 2010. The concept of the song is about shoes and showcases a more urban, hip hop flavoured sound than Mauboy's previous singles. "Get 'Em Girls" received negative reviews from critics, and peaked at number 19 on the ARIA Singles Chart. An accompanying music video was directed by Hype Williams and received a mixed reaction from fans.
In August 2010, The Music Network reported that "Get 'Em Girls" would be the first single from Mauboy's second studio album to be released on 24 September 2010 and that it would feature "a high-profile US star." On 6 September 2010, a spokesperson for Mauboy's record label, Sony Music Australia, confirmed that the featured artist on the song would be Snoop Dogg. "Get 'Em Girls" was written by David Buchanan, Dogg and Bangladesh, who also handled the song's production.
Mauboy had initially planned to have Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliott or Lady Sovereign featured on the song. She explained, "I didn't end up getting any of them but with the help of Bangladesh who produced the track, he contacted Snoop Dogg and that's how it came about." When speaking about the song in an interview with Q News, Mauboy said, "I really love that track and as soon as it was completed I knew that I wanted it to be the first single. I had to fight the record company a bit to get them to release that song first." "Get 'Em Girls" is an R&B, pop, and "thumping hip hop" song. According to Alasdair Duncan from Rave magazine, the song is "slick-sounding, bump-and-grinding urban pop, drawing on Beyoncé and Rihanna in equal parts."