Easy (Sugababes song)

Infobox Single
Name = Easy

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Artist = Sugababes
from Album =
B-side = "Shake It"
Released = November 6, 2006 November 4 2006flagicon|AUS [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/product.asp?sku=2085484]
Format = Digital download, CD single, digital single
Recorded = London, England
Genre = Pop, electro, dance-pop
Length = 3:36
Label = Island
Writer = Keisha Buchanan, Amelle Berrabah, Heidi Range, Jason Pebworth, George Astasio
Producer = Brio Taliaferro, Jason Pebworth, George Astasio
Reviews =
Last single = "Follow Me Home"
(2006)
This single = "Easy"
(2006)
Next single = "Walk This Way"
(2007)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album =
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Ugly"
prev_no = 10
this_track = "Easy"
track_no = 11
next_track = "Too Lost in You"
next_no = 12Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Background = khaki

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Lower caption = UK CD 2 coverAudiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Name = Easy
Audio file= EasySample.ogg

"Easy" is an electro-pop song written by Keisha Buchanan, Amelle Berrabah, Heidi Range, Jason Pebworth, and George Astasio for the Sugababes' first compilation album "" (2006). Produced by Brio Taliaferro, and Orson members Pebworth, and Astasiois, it was released as the album's lead single on November 6, 2006 in the UK. The song reached the top ten in Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia and the United Kingdom, and also peaked within the top twenty across other parts of Europe, including Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Norway.

Writing and recording

"Easy" was one out of two new additions to "Overloaded: The Singles Collection", primarily contributed by Jason Pebworth and George Astasio from the band Orson, with whom the Sugababes' share the same management. Thus the duo came up "with a few ideas for a couple of songs", including a "rough" concept for electro-influenced "Easy". Though Pebworth and Astasio originally wrote all of the song's lyrics by themselves, Amelle Berrabah and Keisha Buchanan decided to contribute some of their own ideas to it, eventually changing parts of the arrangement and the melodies, while adding a second verse and the chorus. Because of deadline pressure most of the vocals were recorded separately.cite web | title="I Like Music" interview with Amelle Berrabah| work=ilikemusic.com | url=http://www.ilikemusic.com/interviews/Sugababes_Amelle_interview_2006-3104 | accessdate=2006-02-17]

Sugababes member Berrabah described "Easy" as a "quite Princey ... sexy, cheeky" song: "It's basically saying to someone 'come over here, what are you waiting for,' almost, one of the lyrics is there is, 'my engine's running hot can you come and fix it for me', and little bits like that telling a bloke to come to them sort of thing, so it's more about the man coming to the woman, and she's trying to bring him on to come over..."cite web | title="I Like Music" interview with Amelle Berrabah| work=ilikemusic.com | url=http://www.ilikemusic.com/interviews/Sugababes_Amelle_interview_2006-3104 | accessdate=2006-02-17] "'Easy' is a very naughty and cheeky song," Buchanan added in an interview with "Contactmusic.com". "It's completely fresh sounding but at the same time has the same qualities as the biggest songs of our career, so it's perfect for this album."cite web | title=Sugababes - "Easy" - Video| work=contactmusic.com | url=http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/sugababesx16x10x06 | accessdate=2006-02-17] Easy went to No.8 in the UK and sold 36,400 copies.This Song Peaked on MTV Adria Top 20 Chart at number 4.The song made its premiere on Scott Mills' BBC Radio 1 "The Scott Mills Show" on September 12, 2006 at 4:20pm GMT.

Music video

The music video for "Easy" was directed by the late Tim Royes (he also did the video for the song "Red Dress"), and was filmed in a studio in London in September 2006. The edited video first aired in the UK in week of October 2, 2006.

The video is notable for the girls wearing latex outfits, each in a different setting within a public toilet. Amelle uses the hand-dryers, Heidi with red hair at the sinks and Keisha is lying down. When it comes to the chorus they are in adjacent cubicles using the doors as props, during the middle of the music video, the girls are seen in a showroom with a red curtain in different Greek-like costumes.

Track listing and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Easy."

; UK CD single 1 (1712313)
# "Easy" - 3:40
# "Shake It" - 5:11

; UK CD single 2 (1712314)
# "Easy" - 3:40
# "Easy" [Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix] - 5:29
# "Easy" [Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Dubstrumental] - 5:29
# "Hole in the Head" [Live at V Festival] - 4:55

; UK digital single [ [http://www.sugatime.christiancoulson.co.uk/discography/singlediscography.htm Untitled Document ] ]
# "Easy" [Brio Alternative Remix]
# "Easy" [Ultrabeat Remix]

Credits

* Mixed by Jeremy Wheatley for 365 Artists at Twenty-One Studios, London
* Assisted by Richard Edgeler
* Executive Producers: Sarah Stenett and Mark Hargreaves
* Vocals: Keisha Buchanan, Heidi Range and Amelle Berrabah

Charts

Official versions and appearances

These are the official versions and remixes and the release they appear on, of "Easy."

References