"Painkillr" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter

Erika Jayne Erika Girardi (née Chahoy; born July 10, 1971), known professionally as Erika Jayne, is an American singer, television personality and former actress. Early life Erika Girardi was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 10, 1971, to single mother Re ...

. It reached number one on ''Billboard''s

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chart in 2014. "Painkillr" was written by Erika Jayne and Christopher Rodriguez. Erika Jayne has described the song by saying: "The idea came to me one night from a darker place. It was how I was feeling at the time. Obviously, with that type of material, it's not set very high in the register. So we set it low, made it yummy, sexy and 1930-ish."

Music video

The black-and-white music video shows Jayne in bed wearing a revealing bodysuit and heels. It was produced by Jayne herself and shot in half a day. "I had a photoshoot in the morning, and then shot it in the afternoon. That's how tight that video was," she told ''People'' magazine. The music video was directed by her long-time collaborator Mikey Minden. Minden described that the music video was intended to be "edgy, dark, gritty, in-your-face, provocative, super-sexy, super-stylized, and very theatrical." Television personality

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criticized the music video in an episode of ''

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'' in 2016.

Track listing

Over twenty different remixes and radio edits were created specifically for the digital download release of "Painkillr";

Music video

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

See also

References