Full Moon (song)
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| Single by Brandy from the album Full Moon |
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| Released | March 2002 (U.S. radio) June 18, 2002 (North America) |
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| Format | CD single, 12" single, digital download |
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| Recorded | 2001; The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California | ||||
| Genre | R&B | ||||
| Length | 4:08 (album version) 3:58 (radio edit) |
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| Label | Atlantic | ||||
| Writer(s) | Mike City | ||||
| Producer | Mike City | ||||
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"Full Moon" is an R&B song written and produced by Mike City for Brandy's same-titled third studio album, Full Moon (2002). It was released as the album's second single during the second and third quarter of 2002 (see 2002 in music), and received a positive reception from music critics. However, the song's impact on worldwide charts was moderate: While "Full Moon" peaked at number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and at number 15 on the UK singles chart, it reached the top 30 in Italy and France only.
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[edit] Writing and recording
In opposition to Rodney Jerkins and his Darkchild team's musical dominance on Full Moon, the album's title track was solely penned by songwriter-producer Mike City. Although Brandy and City had worked on several new songs for the studio album,[1] the pair was insecure if the song was going to make it to the final tracklisting since it differentiated stylistically from what the singer had done before.[2] "I'm glad it did because it really showed where I was coming from musically and vocally [...] and I could relate to the lyrics of the song," Brandy said in an interview with MTV News.[2] "It took him a while to understand my crazy ideas, but [...] he really challenged himself. If you listen to it, it's different from what he's already done in the past..."[1]
Brandy has characterised "Full Moon" as "ghetto", explaining that it is "pop and R&B at the same time [and] has a lot of elements to it."[1] Lyrcially, the song deals with the circumstances of an unexpected love at first sight: "Anything can happen on a full moon. On that particular [song], I'm actually falling in love with somebody I'm just meeting," she said. "I hope that's the second single, because it's different. I've never heard anything like it."[1]
"Full Moon" was remixed by several producers and DJs, among spawning versions with rappers Fat Joe and Twista each.[3] The music duo C&J produced a remix of the song that laid the vocals over "I.O.U." by Freeez, while Rascal dropped Brandy's vocals on top of Chic's "I Want Your Love."[4] The song was generally released in three formats, one being a CD single including P.M. Dawn's "Die Without You" and remixes of "What About Us?", and the other two being limited maxi or 12" singles with twelve different remixes of the song.[4]
[edit] Music video
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The single's music video was directed by Chris Robinson and filmed on various locations throughout Los Angeles, California on March 1 and 2, 2002.[5] Brandy, who was nearly six months pregnant at the time of the video shot, doesn't dance in the video[6] which features model and actor Yoki Brown (Moesha, Boston Public) as Brandy's male counterpart.[5] The final edit premiered worldwide on March 28, 2002 on MTV's music video chart program Total Request Live.[6]
The video opens with the singer stargazing through a telescope on her balcony at night. While playing someone of whom MTV News described as "a bit of a peeping Tom-ika"[6] Brandy turns her attention to a house party a few miles away. There she locks pupils with a longhaired male (Brown), before changing clothes and then riding along the coast in her silver cabriolet. Once she has arrived, Brandy enters the shindig in hopes of meeting him. This serves as the catalyst for a distant flirt between her and the "potential Mr. Right" that continues as the song plays. Towards the end of the video, he follows her back into the car. In the end they stop by a view point, watching the sinking full moon.[6]
[edit] Chart performance
Rare gigs and promo appearances - based on Brandy's heavy pregnancy at this time - caused, that "Full Moon" wasn't as successful as her lead single. Nevertheless the song comparatively big success on the charts with a peak position of number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 16 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Outside the U.S. "Full Moon" entered the top thirty on the majority of the charts it appeared on, but it failed to match the success of its predecessor "What About Us?".
[edit] Charts
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart [7] | 43 |
| Dutch Singles Chart [8] | 51 |
| French Singles Chart | 26 |
| German Singles Chart [8] | 54 |
| Italian Singles Chart [9] | 27 |
| Swedish Singles Chart [10] | 53 |
| Swiss Singles Chart [11] | 72 |
| UK Singles Chart [8] | 15 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [12] | 18 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales [13] | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles [12] | 16 |
| World Singles Official Top 100 [8] | 19 |
| World Airplay Official Top 100 [8] | 15 |
| World R&B Top 30 Singles [8] | 16 |
[edit] Formats and tracklistings
These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Full Moon".
[edit] International CD single
[edit] US CD single
[edit] US CD Remix single (Cat. # CD5 85269-2)
[edit] Official versions
[edit] Notes
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