This Day in Pop: Britney Spears releases 'I Wanna Go' single in 2011 (June 13)

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On June 13, 20111, following a poll on her official website, Britney Spears released I Wanna Go as the third single off her album Femme Fatale. The song was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing of Savan Kotecha. This would be Britney's last single released under Jive Records, which was absorbed by RCA later that year.

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The dance-pop / hi-NRG song features a heavy bassline as well as a distinctive whistled hook that appears in the pre-chorus, and it talks about wanting to let behind her inhibitions and the restrictions that others put on her, tired of hiding her real thoughts and pointing out that "everybody is thinking it" anyways. At the same time she ironically apologizes for her urge for ***ual release.

The song, originally registered as "I I I Wanna Go O O", was written and recorded in 2009 at Maratone Studios in Stockholm, along with other songs from Femme Fatale, such as Criminal and Up 'n Down, as well as The Singles Collection track 3. 

On February 22, 2011, Britney Spears retweeted a snippet of the song which was originally shared by Dr. Luke.

In an interview for Rolling Stone, when talking about the collaboration of Max Martin on the album, Britney commented about IWG:

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Max played a huge role on this album and he has been there since the beginning so there is such a huge level of trust. He gets exactly what I am saying when I tell him what I want and don’t want musically.  His melodies are incredible and he is always coming up with weird sounds, which I love. The whistle on “I Wanna Go” still gets me every time I hear it. Who would have thought of that? There is nobody I feel more comfortable collaborating with in the studio.

I Wanna Go originally charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #73 on April, upon the release of the Femme Fatale album. After the single was released, it eventually peaked at #7, while topping the charts of Canada, Israel and South Korea, as well as the US Dance Club Songs, Dance/Mix Show Airplay and Mainstream Top 40 charts. It was Top 10 in several other countries.

On July 15, a remix EP was released featuring Alex Dreamz, Desi Hits!, OLIVER among others.

 

 

 

 

I Wanna Go never got any tv promo performances, however it was first included on the setlist of her Femme Fatale Tour in 2011, and later it would be performed in her Las Vegas residency Britney: Piece of Me from the beginning in 2013 until August 2015, when Pretty Girls was added to the show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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POLL: Which do you want for third single off Britney's 'Femme Fatale' album?

• Inside Out
  10%
• I Wanna Go
  38%
• How I Roll
  2%
• (Drop Dead) Beautiful
  4%
• Seal It With A Kiss
  1%
• Big Fat Bass
  9%
• Trouble For Me
  1%
• Trip To Your Heart
  18%
• Gasoline
  3%
• Criminal
  10%

 

These were the results of the poll btw.

 

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[Midnight]

The best single from Femme Fatale 

[blackoutbixxh]

I Wanna Go was a catchy, fun summer song  I’m glad it was released as a single! Plus, it was the only video from the entire FF era where she didn’t look like a total zombie 

[Mxra]

The UK really slept on this one. Didn't even reach top 100. 

[Roxxy]

Her biggest radio hit in the US. 

[SexyLove]

'Trip to your heart' had that high of a percentage? Were anti-fans trying to sabotage? 

[PokemonSpears]

30 minutes ago, ol123 said:

The UK really slept on this one. Didn't even reach top 100. 

[PokemonSpears]

3 minutes ago, SexyLove said:

'Trip to your heart' had that high of a percentage? Were anti-fans trying to sabotage? 

 

It would've been the perfect 4th single, and it deserved it, since it was the second place here.

But they came up with that short and unfair selection of songs for the following poll when Criminal won

[jordeezy river red]

I loooove "I Wanna Go" - at the time it was EVERYTHING

[JP9101]

So underrated! It Gould has been bigger than ttwe if it would has been 1 single 

[Spicechinodiva]

2 hours ago, ol123 said:

The UK really slept on this one. Didn't even reach top 100. 

UK really after the Circus era was a hit or miss for Britney spears. 

 

And honestly if you weren't lady gaga or Rihanna. UK didn't really care for you.

 

They had Kylie minogue as their preferred pop star. Despite being born in Australia. kylie is seen as a British icon. 

[pieceofbritUK]

2 hours ago, Roxxy said:

Her biggest radio hit in the US. 

Same in Spain, they still play it a lot on the radio to this day 

 

18 minutes ago, Spicechinodiva said:

UK really after the Circus era was a hit or miss for Britney spears. 

 

And honestly if you weren't lady gaga or Rihanna. UK didn't really care for you.

 

They had Kylie minogue as their preferred pop star. Despite being born in Australia. kylie is seen as a British icon. 

So true. I don't get the obsession with Kylie 

[autumngoodbye91]

a BOP tbh.

The music video is super cheesy but I love it 

[5HINee]

her best single from femme fatale. It deserved the #1 spot.

[Itachi]

the last solo top 10 hit we got  and Britney actually never promoted it in a tv or award show performance but still managed to peak at #7  good times  when will Pity Girls and Make Me 

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and the perfect follow up that never was

 

[Mxra]

2 hours ago, Spicechinodiva said:

UK really after the Circus era was a hit or miss for Britney spears. 

 

And honestly if you weren't lady gaga or Rihanna. UK didn't really care for you.

 

They had Kylie minogue as their preferred pop star. Despite being born in Australia. kylie is seen as a British icon. 

Kylie is ageless over here. Alot of the time when stars get older they don't really get radio play anymore. The complete opposite for Kylie. Queen managed to release a country pop album, still have it reach number 1 and still had it playing in almost ever highstreet shop you walked into. Queen.  The British have and will always eat her music up. 

[YannFrance]

Cool fun song but i hate the music video, it looks like an Avril Lavigne video or something lol. Looks cheap.

[Urbanney]

5 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

It peaked at #7 on the BBH100

omg I knew it did well, but I didn’t know it did that well