The Lady Killer (album)
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| Studio album by CeeLo Green | ||||
| Released | November 5, 2010 (see release history) |
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| Length | 45:49 | |||
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| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.8/10 |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | A− |
| Chicago Tribune |  |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
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| The Independent | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork | 7.3/10 |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Spin | 8/10 |
The Lady Killer is the third studio album by American recording artist CeeLo Green, released November 5, 2010, on Elektra Records. Production for the album was handled by Salaam Remi, Element, The Smeezingtons, Fraser T Smith, Paul Epworth, and Jack Splash.
The album debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 41,000 copies in its first week. It achieved respectable chart success elsewhere and produced three singles, including the international hit "Fuck You". The album has sold 498,000 copies in the United States as of October 2012, and it has been certified 2x Platinum in the United Kingdom. The Lady Killer received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its production, classicist soul music approach, and Green's singing.
Green reportedly "spent three years on The Lady Killer, recording close to 70 songs". Thirteen tracks that didn't make the final selection for The Lady Killer were leaked online in June 2010 as an album titled Stray Bullets including the song "You Don't Shock Me Anymore", and collaborations with The B-52's ("Cho Cho The Cat"), Soko (a remix of "I'll Kill Her"), and Goodie Mob ("Night Train").
The album was released on November 9, 2010, by Elektra Records and Roadrunner Records. It was made available for streaming at NPR through to November 9, 2010.
The album's lead single "Fuck You" was released on August 19, 2010, and charted at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became an international hit and peaked within the top-10 of charts in several countries, including number one in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The radio edit of the song was entitled "Forget You", while another edit is simply entitled "FU". A music video for the song was released on YouTube on August 19, 2010, featuring the lyrics of the song appearing on different colored backgrounds with film grain overlaid on the video. The video went viral, receiving over two million views within a week of its release. The official music video was released on September 1, 2010.
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