Irresistible (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Irresistible

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Artist = Jessica Simpson
from Album = Irresistible
B-side =
Released = US April 9, 2001 UK June 19, 2001
Format = 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Dance-pop,Teen Pop
Length = 3:11 Album Version
Label = Columbia
Writer = Anders Bagge
Arnthor Birgisson
Pamela Sheyne
Producer = Anders Bagge
Arnthor Birgisson
Certification =
Last single = "I Think I'm in Love with You"
(2000)
This single = "Irresistible"
(2001)
Next single = "A Little Bit"
(2001)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = single


Lower caption = Irresistible" (So So Def Remix) (Feat. Lil' Bow Wow) CD Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Audio file = IrresistibleSample.ogg

"Irresistible" is the first single from Jessica Simpson's second album, "Irresistible". Released in 2001, the single reached fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Simpson's second top-twenty hit. The single also reached eleven in the United Kingdom. The single is best known for its music video, changing Simpson's once conservative virginal image to an overtly sexual image for the first time (which would be refined in the video for "Sweetest Sin").

"Irresistible" was written by Anders Bagge, A. Birgisson, and Pamela Sheyne, and produced by Bagge and Birgisson. In this upbeat dance-pop-oriented lead single, Jessica breaks her once imposed Christian boundaries by using suggestive language in a single for the first time, as she questions her personal vows of celibacy when she meets a man she is very sexually attracted to. Simpson realizes she's supposed to wait (until marriage), as she sings: "But he's irresistible, up close and personal, now inescapable, I can hardly breathe".The single is generally considered to be one of her signature songs, and is her most successful single in the WorldWide to date.

Commercial release

"Irresistible" was the second canceled commercial CD single from Jessica Simpson. The song was to be released on the 3rd of July 2000 within the US. However Columbia decided to cancel the commercial release due to the single climbing the Billboard charts rapidly with airplay only. The single was canceled a month before its physical release date. The single was going to be released in the US as a single and a maxi-single. The CD single was to contain the album version and the instrumental version, while the maxi was to contain the number one club mix from DJ Hex Hector and the remix featuring Lil' Bow Wow. A vinyl single was released for purchase.

Music video

Although her debut album had been a modest hit, her boss at Columbia Records, Tommy Mottola, was not pleased with the results. Although Simpson had been planned to be the next big pop superstar, she had failed to come close to the sales of her pop contemporaries, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. To increase sales, Mottola felt that Simpson needed a sexier image, and she was ordered to lose weight and appear in sexier clothes publicly and for her new music videos.

The first video in which she displayed her new sexier side was the one for "Irresistible". Directed by Simon Brand, this dark futuristic spy-like music video showed Jessica in sexy and revealing clothes breaking into a top secret lab. Although her mission is apparently to compromise evidence in the lab, she doesn't quite reach her goal, but instead proceeds to perform a sexy dance.

The video was the WorldPremiere on TRL on May 9, the following day debut in the number 10, after 7 days of the video came at number 2. The video was maintained for 26 weeks in the countdown, he made his second successful video on TRL. The video also helped jessica to be revealed at the Latin American and therefore had great success in top 10 of MTV Latin America, also was a success on several channels of international music.

Due to the breakthrough in sex appeal and the spy theme, the video is often compared to Mariah Carey's "Honey" (which also has a spy theme and featured Carey in sexy clothes for the first time in her career).

A music video was also filmed for the So So Def remix of the song. Simpson is never seen with Lil' Bow Wow, as his shots were filmed separately. As Simpson was practically forced to wear sexy clothes for the video, she is not exactly fond of it. The video also shocked her heavy Christian fanbase, and as a result, she lost several once dedicated fans.

Remixes and other versions

*"Irresistible" [Single Version] 3:13
*"Irresistible" [Riprock & Alex G Remix Deluxe Instrumental] - 3:07
*"Irresistible" [Riprock & Alex G Remix Deluxe] - 3:07
*"Irresistible" [Riprock & Alex G Remix Acapella] - 3:08
*"Irresistible" [Arenna Unreleased Mix] - 7:49
*"Irresistible" [Kupper Radio Mix] - 3:08
*"Irresistible" [Kupper Club Mix] - ?:??
*"Irresistible" [Hex Hector Radio Mix] - 3:29
*"Irresistible" [Hex Hector Dub] - 8:07
*"Irresistible" [Hex Hector Club Mix] - 8:52
*"Irresistible" [Hex Hector Main Vocal] - 3:32
*"Irresistible" [Hex Hector Vocal Acapella] - 3:17
*"Irresistible" [So So Def Remix] * (Feat. Lil' Bow Wow & Jermaine Dupri) - 3:37
*Also, the So So Def Remix, samples Club Nouveau's "Why You Treat Me So Bad" organ.

*Another version of the song is on the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 2.

Chart performance

As the first single from Simpson's second album, there was pressure for this single in particular to do well, not only so that the album would succeed, but also to avoid the traditional "sophomore slump" that many artists have faced in the past. "Irresistible" did both, as it reached the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100. It was also a top-five hit on both the Top 40 Tracks and Top 40 Mainstream. To appeal to Simpson's African-American R&B fanbase, the So So Def remix of "Irresistible" was created, but didn't really help the song in urban markets. Internationally it was received similarly, as the song reached the top twenty in both the UK and Canada.

Charts