"Crash Your Party" is a song by pop-rap duo

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, Kelly Sheehan and Harr and Jackson, with the latter two serving as producers. By late 2011, the single got moderate responses from radio stations. The song was first promoted by radio on October 28, 2011, and was then available for digital download on October 30.

Background and conception

The single was written by Amy Heidemann, Nick Noonan,

, Kelly Sheehan and Andrew Harr and Jermaine Jackson. The single was also produced by The Runners. The song is described as an "

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for the people who want that one person in their lives to know that they're not always the center of attention as cited by the chorus' lyrics "You think you're the star of the show/But I'm about to let you know". The song had moderate success, charting at #36 on the ''

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'' Pop Songs chart. The duo felt it was perfect choice for a first single by how they were introduced to the business through the fans, that they were "crashing the usicindustry's party". "Crash Your Party" begins with a sample from the song "

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. The sampled material is a seven-note motif played on

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, and the motif was likewise used as the opening notes of "The Choice Is Yours". The Carter audio was itself was sampled by Black Sheep from the 1975 recording of "Impressions" on pianist McCoy Tyner's album

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(the motif first appears on the Tyner recording at 3:03 in the track). Because "Impressions" was composed by John Coltrane (though Coltrane did not compose the bass motif played by Carter in 1975), Coltrane is listed as a composer of "Crash Your Party".

Music video

The "Crash Your Party" music video was released on December 7, 2011, where it received about eight million views in its first month of release.

Credits and personnel

*Vocals:

*Songwriting: Amy Heidemann, Nick Noonan, Andrew Harr, Jermaine Jackson, Heather Bright, Kelly Sheehan, Andres Titus, William McLean, John Coltrane, Ridge Morton *Production: The Runners Credits adapted from ''Hello'' album liner notes.

Chart performance

References

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