"Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)" | ||||
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Single by Alexandra Stan | ||||
from the album Saxobeats | ||||
Released | 2009 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Recorded | Maan Studio (Constanța, Romania) |
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Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 3:55 | |||
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Producer(s) | Marcel Prodan | |||
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"Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)" is the debut song recorded by Romanian recording artist Alexandra Stan for her debut studio album, Saxobeats (2011). The track was written by Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nemirschi, while production was solely handled by Prodan. It was first released in Romania in 2009. Following the international success of Stan's 2010 single "Mr. Saxobeat", "Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)" was re-distributed in Canada, Germany, and the United States in 2011. The music video for "Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)" features the singer and other female dancers dancing to the song in front of a purple backdrop; interspersed scenes portray Stan licking a lollipop. She herself described the song as "club-friendly" and as featuring "funny lyrics", while music critics praised it for being a "catchy pop song" and a "club sensation". Sampling elements from American singer Fergie's "Fergalicious" (2006), the single commercially peaked at number 18 on her native Romanian Top 100.
Before being signed to a record label, Stan participated in various music-related contests, including the Mamaia Music Festival. In 2009, she was discovered by Romanian producers and songwriters Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nemirschi at a karaoke bar. They offered her a record deal with their own label, Maan Records, through which she also released a promotional single called "Show Me The Way". During one of Stan's televised performances on Romanian TV show Acces Direct, she explained that "Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)" was produced "just for fun" after she arrived from a club one night. When interviewed by Urban.ro at her release party of Saxobeats, Stan confessed that she expected positive and negative reception for the song, also saying that it emphasized more her image than her vocal abilities.
The recording makes use of elements from American singer Fergie's 2006 single "Fergalicious" (2006). While Stan said that the track is "club-friendly" and features "funny lyrics", German magazine Klatsch Tratsch named it a "catchy pop song". Celeste Rhoads, writing for AllMusic, praised "Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)" during his review for Saxobeats, calling it a "club sensation" along with 2011 singles "Mr. Saxobeat" and "Get Back (ASAP)". Mike Schiller from PopMatters described the production of the track "generic" and its lyrics "crude", while wishing "that it had been conveniently forgotten about [on the album]".