Scars of Armageddon- Never Sleep Again (2013)
| "Boxing Scars" | ||||
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| Unmarried by Guy Sebastian featuring Lupe Fiasco | ||||
| from the album Armageddon and Food & Liquor Ii: The Keen American Rap Album Pt. i | ||||
| Released | x August 2012 (2012-08-ten) | |||
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| Length | iv:08 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Pro-Jay | |||
| Guy Sebastian singles chronology | ||||
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| Lupe Fiasco singles chronology | ||||
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| Food & Liquor II single | ||||
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| "Boxing Scars" (International) on YouTube "Boxing Scars" (Commonwealth of australia and NZ) on YouTube | ||||
"Battle Scars" is a vocal performed by Australian recording artist Guy Sebastian and American rapper Lupe Fiasco. Information technology was released digitally in Australia and New Zealand on ten August 2012 by Sony Music Entertainment.[one] The vocal lyrics and music were written by Sebastian and David Ryan Harris, with the rap written by Fiasco. It was the third single lifted from Sebastian's 7th anthology Armageddon. Fiasco added "Battle Scars" to his fourth album, Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Anthology Pt. 1 in countries other than Australia.[2] [iii] It was released as the fourth single on 28 August 2012, credited every bit a duet.[4]
"Battle Scars" debuted at number ane on the ARIA Singles Chart in its first calendar week of release and has been certified 12× platinum.[5] [6] It was Sebastian's tenth of 12 superlative ten singles in Australia and 6th to attain number one, and Fiasco's third top x and first number ane single.[7] [8] "Boxing Scars" was the third highest selling single in Australia in 2012, the highest selling single by an Australian act.[9] [x] Sebastian received ARIA Accolade nominations for All-time Pop Release and Best Male person Artist for the song.[xi] "Battle Scars" too reached number two and double platinum certification in New Zealand and gold certification in Sweden.[12] [thirteen] [14]
In the United States "Battle Scars" peaked on the Billboard charts at number 71 on the Hot 100, number 23 on the Digital Song Chart and number ane on the R&B/Hip-hop Digital Vocal Nautical chart.[15] [xvi] The song spent 20 nonconsecutive weeks in the Hot 100 and has been certified platinum.[17] [18] "Battle Scars" also reached number ii in Norway.[19] It was nominated for a NAACP Image Honor for Outstanding Duo, Grouping or Collaboration, and won the R&B/Hip category in the 2013 International Songwriting Competition.[20] [21]
Background [edit]
"Boxing Scars" is a song most the scars left from hurtful and broken relationships. In a radio interview Sebastian said, "It'due south about your own personal boxing scars and for every private those are different; some might be words or labels... it might exist relationship scars. When I wrote this song, and when Lupe wrote his bits, we but really wanted it to be something that merely inspired people to, sort of, confront those things, and likewise maybe try and work to think about burying and ripping up those labels; throwing them away."[22]
Sebastian said Fiasco was always his first preference to contribute the rap, every bit he wanted to stay true to the theme of the song and plant Fiasco's work very deep.[23] [24] Sebastian said, "He doesn't rap nearly haul shaking or cash, he'southward much more political and insightful and exactly what I wanted." He looked at other options besides, as he didn't know if Fiasco would be interested, and said he was overwhelmed when he heard Fiasco wanted to come up on board.[23] [25] Explaining why he agreed to participate in the song Fiasco said, "Guy'south vocal performance first got me almost the song because it's great and then the story of the vocal was attractive; I just tried to heighten it."[26] Speaking of what it meant to have Fiasco collaborate on "Battle Scars" Sebastian said, "Only to go someone like Lupe on the track I knew it was going to have heart and have depth."[27] He said of Fiasco, "He is a lyrical genius and he has actually portrayed the emotion of the rail". Sebastian says "Battle Scars" is his "proudest release", calculation, "Every now and then in your career you release something that you feel has a deeper significant and purpose. I don't know how it will chart, only I am really proud of it regardless of what it does."[28]
Composition and recording [edit]
"Battle Scars" is an R&B ballad with a hip hop rap, and is written in the cardinal of F minor.[29] Sebastian and Fiasco contribute equally in the song, with the sung and rap vocals interspersed throughout. Sebastian performs the pre-chorus and chorus, with Fiasco performing the intro and 2 rap verses. Both artists contribute to the bridge.[30] Music author and radio announcer David Lim said, "unlike the majority of these rent-a-rapper verses, Lupe Fiasco's contribution here really feels valid and in equal weighting to Guy'southward sung vocals. I don't know, y'guys – it just felt like they spent a minute on this and it's not just another vanity project."[31]
In interviews during the release week Sebastian explained that usually when he writes a song he comes upwardly with the melody commencement with no words. Withal this fourth dimension some of the lyrics came at the same fourth dimension. While driving to a friend's business firm he started singing "These battle scars", and and so other phrases such as "Don't look like they're fading, don't look like they're ever going away" came to him. These words form part of the chorus, which is used repeatedly during the song, and is one of its 2 hooks.[xxx] Later completing the song with David Ryan Harris it was recorded leaving all the parts where Sebastian envisaged the rap should go.[23] [28]
When Fiasco was in Commonwealth of australia for Supafest he came to Sebastian'south Sydney studio to record the rap. He already had two versions prepared, one with war themed lyrics. Sebastian decided to use that one without listening to the other ane.[23] [28] Fiasco said he came into the studio with other rap pieces also. One was the phrase "Hope the wound heals merely it never does, that'southward crusade y'all're at war with love". He explained that he does not experience fully confident musically when collaborating with other artists, and he had been prepared to discard those lines if Sebastian didn't like them. Sebastian decided to use the phrase equally the intro and likewise three times in the bridge with slight variations to some of the words.[30] [32] It became the second hook in the vocal.[33] Fiasco said, "I didn't recognise that. I just looked at it as a filler and perhaps it will piece of work. But for him to accept information technology similar 'No, that's dope and we're going to use it, and nosotros're going to put it here and here', information technology was kind of like 'yeah thanks man'. It fabricated me feel really good."[32]
Release and promotion [edit]
Lupe Fiasco is featured on "Battle Scars"
"Boxing Scars" was serviced to radio on 2 Baronial 2012, and released digitally in Australia and New Zealand on ten August 2012, with Fiasco credited as a featured creative person.[ane] The song was the most added rail to radio in its first week in Australia, debuting at number 31 on the National Airplay Chart.[34] [35] Information technology became the nigh played vocal in Australia in its 7th calendar week, where it remained for two weeks.[36] Sebastian was interviewed by media and music sites including Music Gear up, BigPond Music and The Music Network to promote the single.[23] [28] [37] He besides had interviews with radio stations, and performed the vocal alive on the Today Network's Fifi and Jules show on 13 Baronial 2012. Fred Twenty-four hour period, a member of Iii Wishez, who were in the last 12 of the 2011 series of The Ten Factor, performed Fiasco'due south rap during this functioning.[38]
Fiasco added "Battle Scars" to his anthology Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Anthology Pt. one in countries other than Australia, credited as a duet.[3] It was released as the fourth single on 28 Baronial instead of the scheduled release "Course Follows Function".[2] Fiasco came to Australia in mid September to promote the single and the release of his album, and he and Sebastian performed it alive for the first time on The X Factor.[27] They also performed the song in the US on the Late Prove with David Letterman and at Fiasco's New York album launch on 27 September.[39] [forty] It was used in the U.s. in the TV promotion of the film Ruddy Dawn.[41] In November Sebastian and Fiasco performed "Battle Scars" at the 2012 ARIA Music Awards.[42] Sebastian and Fiasco continued the U.s. promotion of the vocal in early 2013, performing information technology on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon with The Roots, and on Conan.[43] [44]
Reception [edit]
Disquisitional response [edit]
"Boxing Scars" has received positive reviews. David Lim wrote, "'Battle Scars' is a massive hobbling carol with a titan claw that but beats y'all down with no mercy. The ominous piano-driven ballad, punctuated with crisp beats resembles something Ryan Tedder would pitch to A-list American chart toppers.[....]This next step in Guy'south career deserves to be an international affair and let'southward hope with top-notch singles like 'Battle Scars', he can begin to break new territories."[31] Hip hop indie/popular site Hillydilly said of the vocal, "Aussie singer/songwrtier, Guy Sebastian, has linked up with Lupe Fiasco for this ballsy song from his new anthology. Evidently this guy can sing because he sure does let it be known on 'Boxing Scars'. There is likewise a perfect amount of Lupe on this rail—he is not tucked abroad on some last verse shit, rather he is plant throughout the vocal. This is a skilful 1."[45] David Fredrick from music discovery site Gigity wrote, "Guy Sebastian, the Australian pop/R&B vocalist just released a make new rail 'Battle Scars' ft. Lupe Fiasco and it is an instant classic that will surely grab your attention."[46] Kate Winch from Mosca Media said, "In this effort, the combination of Lupe Fiasco's rap skills with Guy's strong vocals results in a catchy popular, hip hop track thats chorus will become firmly entrenched in your head after just one listen."[47]
Battle Scars also received positive mentions in a number of reviews for Fiasco's album. HipHop DX said, "The Guy Sebastian-assisted "Battle Scars" is some other winner, oozing mass entreatment without deteriorating into sloshy mainstream".[48] Luciana Villalba from review site The Young Folk called Sebastian'due south voice "remarkable", and included Battle Scars in her list of "must-listen" tracks.[49] A reviewer for Entertainment site Pop Civilization Podcast wrote, "This 1 has chart topping single written all over information technology but due to its genuine lyrics and universal subject matter information technology doesn't feel similar one that you take to 'sell out' to brand."[50] XXL Magazine said "Boxing Scars" moved "towards mainstream without completely diffusive", sacrificing niggling "sonically or lyrically, instead relying on booming pop/sung choruses to denote any notable shift."[51] Colin McQuire from Pop Matters wrote that it showcased Fiasco's "knack for crafting a great pop hook" and the "piano-laden groove adds the texture it needs to be a bona fide Top twoscore striking, and Fiasco's crisp broken-hearted rhymes illustrate the exact type of accessibility the rails needs to gain commercial notoriety."[33] ARIA named "Battle Scars" every bit 1 of the summit Australian music moments of 2012, saying, "Nosotros all knew Guy had serious talent, but this yr he took his song writing to another level with the single 'Battle Scars'.[....] One of the greatest songs of the year without a doubt.[52]
Commercial operation [edit]
"Boxing Scars" debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Nautical chart, condign Sebastian's 10th of 12 summit ten singles in Commonwealth of australia and sixth to achieve number one.[7] It was Fiasco'south third Australian top ten and starting time number i unmarried.[eight] Sebastian has achieved the virtually number i singles for an Australian male vocalizer in Australian chart history, and is third overall for all Australian acts. Just Kylie Minogue and Delta Goodrem have achieved more.[53] "Battle Scars" spent 12 weeks in the top 5, including vi weeks at number one, and was the third highest selling single in Australia in 2012, the highest selling single by an Australian human activity.[five] [9] [ten] "Battle Scars" besides reached number 2 and double platinum certification in New Zealand.[12] [thirteen] In the United States, "Boxing Scars" spent twenty weeks in the Us Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 71, Sebastian'southward start song to chart in Northward America.[17] In improver to the Hot 100, "Battle Scars" reached number 23 on the Billboard Digital Songs Chart and number i on the Billboard R&B/Hip-hop Digital Song Chart.[fifteen] [16] It has been certified platinum in the US for sales of 1,000,000.[18] It spent 8 weeks in the Swedish chart, peaking at 46 and was certified aureate there.[14] "Battle Scars" also spent xiii weeks in the peak ten in Kingdom of norway, including six nonconsecutive weeks at number two.[54]
Accolades [edit]
"Battle Scars" received an ARIA Music Award nomination for Best Pop Release, and Sebastian was nominated every bit Best Male Artist for the vocal.[11] "Battle Scars" won Vocal of 2012 in the POPreplublic.goggle box. IT List Awards. The nominees are chosen by POPreplublic, with public vote deciding the winner.[55] The vocal was besides nominated for a 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration.[20] The Awards are presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Battle Scars" won the R&B/Hip category in the 2013 International Songwriting Competition.[21] The judging console is made upwardly of musicians, songwriters and industry experts, and songs are judged on creativity, originality, lyrics, tune, arrangement and overall likeability.[56]
Music video [edit]
The music video for the vocal "Battle Scars" was filmed in New York in locations including industrial areas with destroyed cars and burning oil drums and ruined derelict buildings, where Sebastian and Fiasco are shown performing the song. Individuals filmed in a diverseness of cityscapes are shown periodically, expressing their sadness and personal scars past writing and belongings up signs with words that bear witness how they experience. The words they utilize include "abased", "abused", "fatherless", "outcast", "empty", "slave" and "bullied". Near the end of the video they tear up their signs to symbolise moving on from their hurt. Reviewer Kate Winch gave the video a four out of v rating saying, "This video follows a classic music video manner, showing the artists performing with additional actors staring wistfully in cutting aways. Equally ever, in that location is a reason that something becomes a classic and that is because it works – but every bit information technology does here."[47]
Track listing [edit]
- Digital single
- "Boxing Scars" (featuring Lupe Fiasco) – 4:09
- Other version
- 7th Heaven Club Mix
Credits and personnel [edit]
- Guy Sebastian – composer, vocals
- Lupe Fiasco – composer, vocals
- David Ryan Harris – composer
- Pro-Jay – producer
- Miles Walker – mixing
- James Kang – assistant engineer
Charts and certifications [edit]
Release history [edit]
See too [edit]
- List of number-i singles of 2012 (Australia)
- List of artists who reached number 1 on the Australian singles nautical chart
- List of best-selling singles in Australia
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