"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" is a song by Canadian singer

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, taken from her second studio album and debut international release, ''

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'' (2012). It was released in the

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as a single on February 19, 2013, as the international fourth single from the album. An official remix featuring rapper

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was released on May 6, 2013. The song was written by Jepsen, Lukas Hilbert,

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, Clarence Coffee Jr., Shiloh, and Katerina Loules. Thematically, the track centers around a break-up, with lyrics about getting over her ex-boyfriend by dancing with someone new. The song has some

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aspects. "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" received mostly positive reviews from

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; some deemed it one of the best tracks on ''Kiss'', as they did with "

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". Charting across Europe, the song became a top ten hit in Belgium. The song peaked at number 90 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and achieved modest success on the

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and dance club airplay charts.

Background and composition

"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" was written by Jepsen, Lukas Hilbert,

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, Clarence Coffee Jr, Shiloh, and Katerina Loules.''

'' liner notes.

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. The song is primarily

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, Jepsen's vocal spans to high note F5 and opens with her singing, "I wanna smash your fears and get drunken off your tears / Don't you share your smile with anyone else but me". Jepsen addresses her post-breakup feelings, as she gets tired of her boyfriend's lies and broken promises: "I wanna touch your heart, I wanna crush it in my hands / Make you plead and cry as you give up all the lies". Sam Lansky of

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wrote that "the tremor in Jepsen's voice in the pre-chorus one of the year's most heartbreaking pop moments". As she closes the pre-chorus singing, "No more crying to get me through / I'll keep dancing till the morning with somebody new", the instrumentation incorporates a

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-style beat as we hear Jepsen repetitively chanting, "Tonight I'm getting over you". According to ''Candy'', the song's message is one of trying to get over a lover, but eventually getting back with them. Of the lyrics, Jepsen told ''

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'': "I think it's important to have a bit of a connection to a song that you sing, and there's going to be some grittiness behind it, because otherwise it doesn't come across as sincere. So I do think I tap into those memories in a certain way, but it doesn't make me feel sad. It just makes me feel a little contemplative and in the moment." Jepsen herself spoke out about the song's theme, saying that despite the highs and lows of a relationship, sometimes it's better to move on. Neglecting to reveal the identity of the man who inspired the lyrics, she said, "it's probably better he didn't know it was about him." The official

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of "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" features a rap verse from

; over a

beat, Minaj raps: "Tonight I'm getting over /

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through my yog-er."

Critical reception

"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" received mostly positive reviews from

. Jessica Sager of Pop Crush wrote that, if released as a single, the song would likely become a "club staple". ''

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'' Sam Lansky of Idolator praised the chorus, where he noted the song's transformation from "a '

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'-esque Top 40 lollipop into a noisy, crunchy rave-a-thon." Melinda Newman of

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thought "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" was as risque as Jepsen's previous single, " This Kiss". Adam Markovitz of ''

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'' selected "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" and "

" as the best songs on ''Kiss''. A negative review came from Carolline Sullivan of ''

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'', who wrote that "set against Dallas Austin and Max Martin's overprocessed beats, he singercan't help but fail, as Canadian Idol would put it, to 'own' the songs." ''Candy'' wrote that while the theme of Jepsen's new single changed with "Tonight I'm Getting Over You", the upbeat tempo remains, making the track a ''bona fide'' party anthem. Music reviewer Sam Lansky noted that the success of "Call Me Maybe" would leave "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" without much mainstream recognition, calling it the "scientifically-engineered-to-be-perfect pop song". Commenting on the Nicki Minaj remix, Jeff Benjamin of

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said that while the rapper's addition was silly, it had the potential to rescue Jepsen from becoming a

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Chart performance

The song remix version with Nicki Minaj debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart of May 25, 2013, at number 90, before falling off the chart the following week.

Promotion

Music video

On January 27, 2013, Jepsen revealed through her

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account that she would film the music video for "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" in Los Angeles the following weekend. Three days later, the singer revealed the filming was already done shooting the music video for the single before heading to Japan for her headlining ''Kiss Tour''. The video premiered through VEVO on February 22, 2013. Jepsen's lover in the music video is

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Brandon Gray. The video follows Jepsen as she cavorts with a male model and jumps transcendently before a gray background.

blogged: "That part doesn’t totally make sense, but visually, it's a nice motif, sort of." Brittany Galla of

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wrote that the video for "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" was more mature and emotional than the one for "

Live performance

Jepsen performed "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" on the '' Believe Tour'' and ''

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''. On January 26, 2013, the singer performed it at the

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. She also performed the song live with starting verses from her former single, "

" on

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. Also in 2013, she performed the song at grand launching of NET.

Formats and track listings

*Digital download #"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" — 3:39 *Digital EP — remixesAmazon.com: Tonight I'm Getting Over You: Carly Rae Jepsen: Official Music
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Remix) — 5:18 #"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" (Twice As Nice Remix) — 3:40 #"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" (Reid Stefan Remix) — 6:06 #"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" (Wayne G & LFB Club Mix) — 7:07 #"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" (KoKo Club Mix) — 4:53 *Digital download – remix single #"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" (featuring

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Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Radio and release history

References

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