She Bangs

"She Bangs"

Single by Ricky Martin

from the album Sound Loaded

B-side

"Amor"
"Por Arriba, Por Abajo"

Released

October 10, 2000

Format

Recorded

2000; Sony Music Studios
(New York City); The Hit Factory Criteria, the Gentleman's Club
(Miami); WallyWorld Studios, Capitol Studios
(Hollywood); Aireborne Studios
(Indianapolis); Quad Recordings
(Nashville)

Genre

Pop

Length

4:42 (album version)
4:06 (radio edit)

Walter Afanasieff
Robi Draco Rosa
Desmond Child

Ricky Martin singles chronology

"Private Emotion"
(2000)

"She Bangs"
(2000)

"Nobody Wants to Be Lonely"
(2001)

Music video
"She Bangs" (English Ver.) on YouTube

"She Bangs" is a song performed by Ricky Martin, from his 2000 album Sound Loaded. An up-tempo, salsa-influenced song with double entendres about the singer's infatuation with a woman, Martin's recording earned him continued crossover success around the world.

The song was co-written by Desmond Child, who co-wrote Martin's number one hit "Livin' la Vida Loca" as well as several hits for Bon Jovi and other rock artists in the 1980s and '90s. Another co-writer was Martin's former Menudo bandmate Draco Rosa. The song was produced by Rosa and co-writer Walter Afanasieff; Afanasieff had won the previous year's Grammy Award for Song of the Year for producing Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On".

Sound Loaded was the follow-up to Martin's 1999 crossover breakthrough album Ricky Martin and "She Bangs" was released to radio in advance of the album as its first single. By 2000, the main Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Latin Songs charts had splintered into a myriad of sub-charts and the song became a hit on several of these, debuting on the Hot 100 and other charts beginning the week of October 7, 2000, and reaching its various chart peaks throughout November, December and January.

The music video was shot in mid-August, directed by Wayne Isham was the subject of a season 3 episode of the MTV series Making the Video, a behind-the-scenes documentary style show that features the on-set filming and in-studio editing of popular artists' clips. It aired in September 2000 and became an MTV hit, receiving heavy rotation on the channel. Dancer Channing Tatum is also featured. A Spanish version of the music video was also released.

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