Good Girls Go Bad
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| Single by Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester | |||||||||||||
| from the album Hot Mess | |||||||||||||
| Released | May 11, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2009 | ||||||||||||
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| Length | 3:16 (album version), 3:38 (video version) | ||||||||||||
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"Good Girls Go Bad" is a song by American pop band Cobra Starship with guest vocals by Leighton Meester. It was the first single released from their third studio album, Hot Mess. The song was released digitally through iTunes on May 11, 2009. On May 8, 2009, "Good Girls Go Bad" made its radio debut on KIIS-FM with Ryan Seacrest's show.
The song was produced by former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi and Kevin Rudolf. The song went on to become Cobra Starship and Leighton Meester's first US hit and top 10, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified double-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting over 2 million copies sold in the United States. The song received heavy airplay in Canada as well, debuting at 21 on Canada's radio airplay chart "Canadian Hit 30" week ending July 25, 2009. The song also debuted on Radio 1 in the UK in September 2009. The song was licensed in various media.
Some of the official remixes also feature rapper Flo Rida.
The band was first offered to work with Kara DioGuardi in 2009, just as DioGuardi was becoming an American Idol judge. Vocalist Gabe Saporta explained,
We got offered to work with Kara right as she was becoming an American Idol judge. We didn't know who she was. She didn't know who we were. We got hooked up with her. I'm like, 'Who is this person?' She's like, 'Who's this annoying band?' But we got in the room, and it was like magic, and we wrote the song in 15 minutes. It's, like, the best song on our album.
Fifteen minutes after the creation of the hook for the song, the entire track was done. On April 27, 2009, it was announced Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester would be featured. Lead singer Gabe Saporta had wanted Meester to be featured in the song because "it's already kind of her character in Gossip Girl, like the perfect girl with the bad streak." Once Meester heard "Good Girls Go Bad", she took an immediate liking to it. "I thought, 'I need to get on that!' It totally is my sound too. Really fun to dance to it. Very edgy and cool".
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