"Hollaback Girl" is a pop song written by singer Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams for Stefani's debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby (2004). As part of Stefani's vision of creating "a silly dance record," the song is influenced by 1980s dance and hip hop music. They wrote the song as a response to Courtney Love's statement that Stefani was a "cheerleader" in an interview with Seventeen magazine.
The song was released as the album's third single in early 2005 (see 2005 in music) and was one of the year's most popular songs, peaking inside the top ten on the majority of the charts it entered. It reached number one in Australia and the United States, where it became the first digital download to sell one million copies. "Hollaback Girl" received many awards nominations, yet it divided pop music critics
"Hollaback Girl" is a moderately fast song in the key of B major. It combines old school hip hop with dance music, and like the majority of pop music is set in com ...more