Bootylicious

Beyoncé, Falonte Moore and Rob Fusari wrote and produced it, and Stevie Nicks has a credit because the track is built on the guitar riff from her Edge of Seventeen. The group recorded it at SugarHill Recording Studios in Houston and at Sound on Sound Studios in New York. The origins are told differently. Fusari said he first wanted the riff from Survivor's Eye of the Tiger, could not find the record and used a Stevie Nicks record instead, and that Beyoncé shaped the idea over the phone. Beyoncé has said that she wrote it on a flight. Engineer Dan Workman remembered cutting it in one 14-hour day, with Beyoncé sitting sideways on the effects rack as she wrote. Fusari wanted to replay the riff himself, but Mathew Knowles said no, and the sample stayed.

Rowland sings most of the lead, including both verses, Beyoncé takes the choruses and Williams the bridge. Matthew Rolston directed a video that rebuilds Michael Jackson's choreography, including the Billie Jean routine from Motown 25, and Stevie Nicks appears as herself in a dressing room with a guitar. The song reached number one on the Hot 100 and number two in Britain. It popularized the word that gave the song its title, though Snoop Dogg had used it earlier on Dr. Dre's Dre Day. Tom Breihan of Stereogum called it a dizzy blast of joy captured on record, and Alexis Petridis wrote that it still sounds thrilling after more than twenty years.