Strawberry Kisses

"Strawberry Kisses"
Single by Nikki Webster
from the album Follow Your Heart
Released 11 June 2001 (Australia)
Format CD
Recorded 2001
Genre Bubblegum pop, teen pop
Length 3:33
Label Gotham
Writer(s) Jeff Franzel, Andy Marvel, Marjorie Maye
Producer(s) Chong Lim
Nikki Webster singles chronology
"We'll Be One"
(2000)		 "Strawberry Kisses"
(2001)		 "Depend on Me"
(2001)
Alternative covers
UK CD single cover

"Strawberry Kisses" is a pop song written by Jeff Franzel, Andy Marvel and Marjorie Maye, produced by Chong Lim for Nikki Webster's first album Follow Your Heart (2001). It was released as the album's first single on 11 June 2001 in Australia and 27 May 2002 in the UK as a CD single. Webster states the song as being "fresh, really bright and chirpy". To this date, it is number 2 on the List of Top 25 singles for 2001 in Australia. She also states "After I first heard the demo, I was singing it that night and I just thought that's a fantastic sign of a good song - something people remember".[1]

Strawberry Kisses Nominated for Highest Selling Single at the 15th Annual ARIA Awards in 2001.

Music video

The music video for "Strawberry Kisses" was directed by Mark Hartly. The video features Webster entering a space ship and meets up with a computer animated character called Digital Jimmy. Digital Jimmy (DJ) was created by Hartly, and Webster thought the idea was fantastic and when she saw the basic drawing she fell in love with him.[1] Digital Jimmy presses a button on a remote control, which changes Webster's outfit from a pink dress resembling her 2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremony costume, to pink crop top and pants. Webster then sings in a microphone for the first one minute of the song, starts dancing then as the song finishes she leaves the space ship and goes on another space ship ending the video. Webster stated that the back-up dancers in the video were her friends from her dance class.[1]

Chart performance

The song debut into the Australian singles chart at number two on 18 June 2001. It stayed at number two for seven weeks. It then dropped to number six, then number twelve, then after fourteen weeks dropping out of the top fifty. The song left the top one-hundred at number eighty-nine and spent a total of eighteen weeks in the charts. The song went Gold in its second week in the chart and Platinum in its ninth week in the chart. The song was also released in New Zealand where it peaked at number forty and spent only one week on the chart, and United Kingdom where it peaked and debut at number sixty-four and stayed in the chart for that one week.

Cover version

Brazilian girl band Rouge covered the song in Portuguese called "Beijo Molhado" ("Wet Kiss") in 2002 for their debut album.

Track listing

Australian CD single
  1. "Strawberry Kisses"
  2. "Strawberry Kisses" (Fresh Kisses mix)
  3. "Strawberry Kisses" (karaoke mix)
UK CD single
  1. "Strawberry Kisses" (radio mix)
  2. "Strawberry Kisses" (Fresh Kisses mix)
  3. "Strawberry Kisses" (karaoke mix)
  4. "Strawberry Kisses" (music video)

Charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] 2
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[3] 40
Chart (2002) Peak
position
Dutch Singles Chart 58
UK Singles Chart 64

Release details

Country Date Label Format Catalog
Australia 2001-06-11 Gotham Records CD GOTH01022
New Zealand 2001-07-29 BMG CD 74321876034
United Kingdom 2002-05-27 Gotham Records CD 74321943642

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Disney Magazine, August 2001". Disney magazine. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
  2. ↑ "Strawberry Kisses - Australian chart run". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
  3. ↑ "Strawberry Kisses - New Zealand chart run". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
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