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Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

2008Released
3:12

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In this song, Beyoncé urges all the single ladies to dump their boyfriends if they don't propose. Her man stepped up: After dating for two years, she and Jay-Z got married on April 4, 2008, about five months before this song was released. In an interview with Essence magazine, Beyoncé said when she married Jay-Z in April 2008, she didn't even want an engagement ring, so it can be safely assumed that the Texan singer was performing this song as her feisty alter-ego "Sasha."

This upbeat dance track features a beat provided by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, the duo behind Rihanna's "Umbrella." They wrote the song along with their associate Kuk Harrell and Beyoncé. The-Dream told The Boombox that when writing for women, he likes to tap into their personal stories. "The topics change based on what you're going through in your life," he said. "Beyoncé was going through marriage for the first time in her life when I wrote 'Single Ladies,' but the blessing is in how I was raised and my principal of it, and how I feel about [marriage]. I wrote a song about a relationship that's starting but sings, 'If you like it then you should've put a ring on it,' meaning a lot. [Meaning] that, 'I'm OK with being this type of girl,' which men want to hear, and women want to say."

This was released as a single together with "If I Were a Boy." Beyoncé wrote in a letter to her fans around the time of their release, that she was "in a different place right now and I wanted people to see the many sides of me" and indeed the two songs have completely different perspectives.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
193BPM

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Released By

The record label that has released Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).
Music World Music/Columbia
(P) 2008, 2009 Sony Music Entertainment

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