Ride It (Geri Halliwell song)

"Ride It" is a song recorded by English singer Geri Halliwell for her third studio album, Passion (2005). It was released on 22 November 2004 by Innocent Records as the first single from the album. "Ride It" was commercially successful in Europe; it peaked at number four in the United Kingdom and reached number three on the Spanish and Scottish charts.

"Ride It"
Single by Geri Halliwell
from the album Passion
B-side"It's Raining Men"
Released22 November 2004
Format
Recorded2001
Genre
Length3:46
LabelInnocent
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Geri Halliwell singles chronology
"Calling"
(2001)		 "Ride It"
(2004)		 "Desire"
(2005)
Music video
"Ride It" on YouTube

Critical reception

Critical response towards "Ride It" was mixed. Matt Potter from Yahoo! Launch gave the single two out of ten stars, and said "Enter Halliwell, and her latest attempt to present herself as a sexy siren, all attitude and independence. It's not as if it's a bad song, either - think "Life Is A Roller Coaster", crossed with "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves" but minus a proper chorus - but the steely, tears-at-a-hen-party desperation of Halliwell's delivery makes this the musical equivalent of getting the eighteenth call in one evening from a girl you met once at a party".[1]

Chart performance

Strong competition from Girls Aloud, Destiny's Child and Lemar resulted in a final chart position of number four in the UK Singles Chart, from a midweek position of number two, with 19,196 copies sold in its first week. "Ride It" went on to sell 55,142 copies and was the 143rd-best-selling single of 2004 in the UK.[2] It also reached number three on the Spanish and Scottish charts.[3][4]

Music video

The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Luca Tommassini and shot in Milan in September 2004.[5] In it, Halliwell dresses as a policegirl and spanks a male model with a truncheon before flashing her bra. She also sticks the truncheon between the man's legs. There is also a close-up of lifting her pink dress and shaking her bottom. TV executives were worried the video would be too sexual for Top of the Pops Saturday viewers, which was watched by six to twelve year olds. The BBC then censored the video, saying: "TOTP Saturday will air Geri's video without a couple of unsuitable shots".[6]

Live performances

To promote the single, Halliwell performed the song on Children in Need, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Top of the Pops, CD:UK, GMTV, Ministry of Mayhem and This Morning.

Track listings and formats

Charts

References
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  2. "UK Year-End Charts 2004" (PDF). UKChartsPlus. p. 2. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  3. "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
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  5. http://www.vh1.com/video/geri-halliwell/418078/ride-it.jhtml
  6. "TOO SPICY; EXCLUSIVE Top of the Pops tell Geri to tone down sexy video. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com.
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  8. Ride It (UK CD2 liner notes). Geri Halliwell. EMI. 2004. SINCD69.CS1 maint: others (link)
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  19. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Ride It". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  20. "Arhiva romanian top 100 – Editia 1, saptamina 10.01 – 16.01, 2005" (in Romanian). Romanian Top 100. Archived from the original on 22 February 2005. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  21. "Swisscharts.com – Geri Halliwell – Ride It". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
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