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1994 single past Crystal Waters

1994 single past Crystal Waters

"100% Pure Love"
100 percent pure love.jpg
Single past Crystal Waters
from the album Storyteller
Released April 11, 1994 (1994-04-11) [1]
Recorded 1993
Genre
  • Firm
  • dance-pop
Length 4:twoscore
Label
  • Mercury
  • A&Thou (UK)
Songwriter(s)
  • Crystal Waters
  • Teddy Douglas
  • Thomas Davis
  • Jay Steinhour
Producer(south)
  • Teddy Douglas
  • Jay Steinhour
Crystal Waters singles chronology
"Makin' Happy"
(1991) 		"100% Pure Love"
(1994) 		"Ghetto Day/What I Need"
(1994)
Music video
"100% Pure Love" on YouTube

"100% Pure Love" is a 1994 song recorded past American vocalist and songwriter Crystal Waters from her second studio album, Storyteller (1994). It was released on April 11, 1994, as the anthology'due south pb single. The song was a hit in many countries, reaching the meridian twenty in Australia, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the U.s.. It was certified Platinum in Commonwealth of australia and Gold in the US.

Background and release [edit]

The song is inspired past her relationship at the fourth dimension. The vocalizer says she chose the stylings of the song as a reaction to the popularity of gangsta rap during the mid-1990s in the United States.[two]

Looking to write a positive vocal, she sent an early on typhoon to her product squad Basement Boys who "hated the hook" just "loved the verses." Originally the song was built on the lyrics, "the trounce goes boom," before she went dorsum to the drawing board and considered the reasons she was writing the song in the first identify. "From the back to the heart and around once again, I'yard going to exist there 'til the terminate, 100% pure love," emerged equally the adjacent draft and became the lyrics in the completed version of the song.[two]

Crystal Waters also signed and debuted equally a model with the Ford Modeling Agency in August 1994. They included her as a special guest in manner collections in both Europe and the United States. And "100% Pure Love" was the theme of Ford'southward "Supermodel of the World" contest that year.[3]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that "the enigmatic vocalism" behind the 1991 boom "Gypsy Adult female" "returns with a percussive pop/dance twirler from her new 'Storyteller' opus. Though it seemed impossible to come up up with a claw as catchy equally 'la-da-di, la-di-da', Waters and cohorts the Basement Boys have washed exactly that, and wrapped it with dramatic strings and butt shagging cowbells."[4] 1000.R. Martinez from Cash Box felt that Waters' "smokey vocals" worked all-time on uptempo material, similar "100% Pure Dear".[v] Anderson Jones from Entertainment Weekly stated that "the hip-swaying infectious grooves" of the track "can't exist denied."[6] Bradley Stern from Idolator noted that information technology is "armed with a real subtle earworm of a chorus", calling it a "campy business firm anthem".[7] Howard Cohen from Knight-Ridder Newspapers commented, "Waters' jazz-inflected vox merges with difficult-edged house instrumentation, while the song's night and exciting synthesizer intro is a hard-to-decline signal to hitting the trip the light fantastic toe floor."[8]

Music author James Masterton wrote in his weekly UK chart commentary, "The lady with possibly the about unusual voice in trip the light fantastic toe music is back." He described information technology as "more of the same kind of left-field nonsense".[9] Andy Beevers from Music Week rated it iv out of five, complimenting it as "an impressive improvement", stating that "boasting a strong garage production from The Basement Boys and a catchy vocal claw, this could cross over."[10] Tim Jeffery from the magazine's RM Dance Update noted that information technology "features a catchy 'Back to the heart and round again' hook that should exist enough to propel it into the charts."[eleven] Wendi Cermak from The Network Forty said it is "100% fierce!"[12] Orla Swift from Record-Journal deemed it a "vivid, dynamic number", that is "displaying a knack both for catchy melodies and innovative arrangements".[13] Eddie B. Allen Jr. from Toledo Blade described it every bit the "almost forceful" of the dance singles on the album.[14]

Chart performance [edit]

The single reached number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number one on the Hot Dance Social club Play chart and number 38 on the US R&B chart. It spent a full of 45 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, condign ane of the longest charting singles in the US to date. The song won a Billboard Music Award for Peak-Selling Hot Dance Music Society Play Single at the 1994 Billboard Music Awards. The vocal was certified Gold in the United States.[15] In Europe, information technology managed to climb into the Peak 20 in Finland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the latter, the unmarried peaked at number 15 in its second calendar week at the UK Singles Nautical chart, on April 24,[16] but on the United kingdom Dance Singles nautical chart, information technology hitting number i. Additionally, it was a Acme xxx striking in Austria and Iceland, and a Peak 40 hit in Belgium and Federal republic of germany. On the Eurochart Hot 100, "100% Pure Dear" hit number 49, but on the European Trip the light fantastic Radio Nautical chart, it peaked at number-one.

The song proved to exist most popular in Australia. It beginning entered the ARIA Singles Chart at number 40 on June 26, 1994, then reached number three 3 weeks later. On July 31, the song reached its pinnacle position of number two, backside Wet Moisture Wet'south runaway striking "Love Is All Around".[17] It dropped to number three the side by side week, then spent iv more weeks at that position before falling to number four on September 11. Afterwards, it remained in the chart for a further seven weeks earlier dropping out of the meridian 50 on November 6. It finished 1994 as Australia's 11th acknowledged single, the second acknowledged number-ii hit of the year behind Bon Jovi'southward "Always".[eighteen] Information technology has since received a Platinum certification from ARIA for sales exceeding 70,000 copies.[ citation needed ]

Music video [edit]

The accompanying music video, directed past Matthew Rolston and choreographed by Michael K. Williams (who later went on to star as Omar Little on The Wire), was as well nominated for Best Dance Video at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards. It was later published on YouTube in October 2009. By February 2021, the video had more than 17.iii one thousand thousand views.[19]

Impact and legacy [edit]

Australian music aqueduct Max included "100% Pure Honey" in their list of "1000 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension" in 2011.[xx] BuzzFeed ranked information technology number nine in their listing of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs of the '90s" in 2017.[21] In 2021, they ranked information technology number five in their list of "The 50 Best '90s Songs of Summertime", calling information technology "the greatest '90s dance song of the '90s trip the light fantastic genre".[22]

Rails listing [edit]

  • CD maxi [23]
  1. "100% Pure Love" (radio mix) – iii:06
  2. "100% Pure Love" (society mix) – 8:04
  3. "100% Pure Love" (Gumbo mix) – 5:22
  • The states CD maxi-unmarried (858711-2)
  1. "100% Pure Beloved" (Club Mix) - 8:04
  2. "100% Pure Love" (Radio Mix) - 3:06
  3. "100% Pure Love" (Gumbo Mix) - v:22
  4. "100% Pure Love" (Hump Mix) - v:33
  5. "100% Pure Love" (DJ EFX's Tribal Pump Mix) - six:41
  6. "100% Pure Beloved" (PG Tips Canticle Mix) - 7:forty
  7. "100% Pure Love" (Trance Vocalization) - 6:40

Charts and certifications [edit]

In pop culture [edit]

On Jan 22, 2021, on the drag contest RuPaul's Drag Race episode "RuPaulmark Channel", contestants Denali and Kahmora Hall performed a "lip sync for your life" battle to "100% Pure Honey", with Denali Foxx winning and staying in the competition.

References [edit]

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