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2011 single past Lil Wayne featuring Bruno Mars

2011 single by Lil Wayne featuring Bruno Mars

"Mirror"
Lil Wayne staring at a mirror seing a reflection of a younger himself, the words "Lil Wayne Mirror feat. Bruno Mars" are on the top of the image.
Single by Lil Wayne featuring Bruno Mars
from the album Tha Carter IV (Deluxe Edition)
Released September thirteen, 2011 (2011-09-13)
Studio CMR S Studios (Miami, Florida)
Genre
  • Hip hop
  • rap ballad
Length three:48
Label
  • Young Money
  • Cash Money
  • Universal Republic
Songwriter(south)
  • Dwayne Carter, Jr.
  • Peter Hernandez
  • Phillip Lawrence
  • Ramon Owen
Producer(s)
  • REO of the Soundkillers
Lil Wayne singles chronology
"Y.U. Mad"
(2011) 		"Mirror"
(2011) 		"Strange Clouds"
(2011)
Bruno Mars singles chronology
"Marry You"
(2011) 		"Mirror"
(2011) 		"It Volition Rain"
(2011)
Music video
"Mirror" on YouTube

"Mirror" is a song past American rapper Lil Wayne featuring American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. The second bonus track on the deluxe edition of Tha Carter Iv (2011), was released to Urban gimmicky radio stations as the sixth and last single on September thirteen, 2011, through Young Money, Greenbacks Money, and Universal Republic Records. Wayne, Mars, Phillip Lawrence and Ramon Owen wrote "Mirror". Owen also handled product as REO of the Soundkillers, and the Smeezingtons. The song leaked online a few days earlier the album's official release in the United States. The track was produced three years before its release. Owen, with Mike Caren's help, was able to get the rails to several rappers, who rejected it. Lil Wayne liked the vocal after hearing information technology, withal, and his verses were added to Mars's hook vocals already on the runway.

Music critics gave "Mirror" positive reviews praising information technology for Mars's smoothen, epic claw and Wayne's introspective verses. The hip-hop and rap carol has been compared in its composition to "Lighters" (2011) by Bad Meets Evil featuring Mars and lyrically to Wayne'south unmarried "How to Love" (2011) from the same album. Its lyrics describe the downfalls of life, besides as Wayne's upbringing, state of heed, past choices and personal life. "Mirror" debuted at number xvi on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number 17 in the United Kingdom. It as well peaked in the summit 15 of Denmark, Netherlands, and appeared on charts in Switzerland, and Belgium (Flanders). It has been certified three times platinum in the United States. In Denmark, information technology received two different certifications, gilt for units shipped, and two times platinum for its streaming numbers.

Antoine Fuqua directed the accompanying music video, filmed in Nov 2011, with visual effects created by GloriaFX. It depicts Wayne throwing cherry, black and white paint on the walls of a room creating an undefined painting, while Mars sings on meridian of a ladder. The video ends with a scene showing a painting of Wayne, toned in blood-red, crucified on a giant treble clef holding a mic in his left paw. Critics complimented its aesthetics. Wayne performed the song during his tour in Australia.[ane]

Release and production [edit]

"Mirror" was released as the album's sixth and final single. Young Coin, Cash Money and Universal Republic Records released the track to American urban contemporary radio stations, which began adding the rail to their playlists on September 13, 2011.[2] On November 1, 2011, the single was re-released in the aforementioned format and to rhythmic contemporary stations by Cash Coin and Universal Commonwealth Records.[3] [4] The song was fabricated available in the Britain via digital download on December 18, 2011.[v]

REO of the Soundkillers produced "Mirror" with co-product by the Smeezingtons. Dwayne Carter, Peter Hernandez, Philip Lawrence and Ramon Owen wrote the song. Michael "Banger" Cadahia and his banana Edward "Jewfro" Lidow recorded it at CMR South Studios in Miami, Florida. The unmarried was mixed at the Tape Establish in Los Angeles by Fabian Marascuillo, with Ghazi Hourani equally the mixing assistant. It was mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering.[half dozen]

Background and lawsuit [edit]

Ramon "REO" Owen created the instrumental iii years before its inclusion on Tha Carter Four. The producer, Reo" Owen of the Soundkillers, with help of Mike Caren, Atlantic Records A&R, was able to become this recording, which already had Bruno Mars singing the hook, heard by industry "heavy-hitters" including rappers Kanye West, Drake, and Nas. They rejected it. Lil Wayne liked the track and decided to keep it. "REO" initially wanted the track to exist a role of West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). He to "settle[ed]" for it beingness included on Wayne's Tha Carter IV. He felt lucky it was given the amount of material recorded during the fourth dimension an album is produced. Owen claimed he lone produced the track with the Smeezingtons as co-writers, however, the CD's liner notes besides credit the team as co-producers. "REO" agreed that Wayne'south verses captured the feeling of the song.[7] The track leaked on Baronial 25, 2011.[8]

In late 2014, Ramon "REO" Owen filed a lawsuit against Wayne alleging he had promised him at least $91,000 for his work on the vocal. According to the lawsuit, Owen never received this payment.[9] On February 19, 2015, Manhattan Federal Courtroom judge, Katherine B. Forrest, guild Wayne to pay Owen $100,000 and Young Coin to "hand over" their accounting records, as they failed to respond to the allegations in courtroom, after being served with the legal documents in Dec 2014. During the judgment, Owen stated that he tried to contact Wayne regarding the coin for eleven months prior to the lawsuit. Co-ordinate to court filings, Owen is entitled to $91,841.fifty in royalties.[10] [11]

Limerick [edit]

"Mirror" is a hip-hop and rap ballad[5] [12] composed in the central of F Minor, set at a tempo of 80 beats per minute. The tune spans the tonal range of C4 to D♭5, while the music follows the chord progression of Fm-E-Cm–East♭–Db.[13] Its instrumental has been described equally "an eerie wail in the background and a smothered boot-and snare-drum pattern".[vii] This is noticeable due to its tripped-down production and melancholy harmonies, echoing and somber beats.[v] [14] [15] Rap-Upward noted the resemblance betwixt the structure of "Mirror" and "Lighters" (2011) by Bad Meets Evil, which also features Bruno Mars.[fifteen]

In the track, Mars shows his emo-angst by singing: "Through my rising and fall/ Yous've been my but friend" and Wayne gets "cogitating" on his verses "Looking at me now I tin run into my by/Damn, I look but like my f—rex dad/Lite information technology up, that'south smoke in mirrors/I even expect proficient in the broken mirror."[5] [7] [fourteen] Wayne not only shows his "warped, troubled heed" but also his softer side by rapping virtually his father.[15] [16] [17] Overall, Wayne reflects on his past choices and his life.[eighteen] Various publications affirmed that Lil Wayne took inspiration from Michael Jackson in one of his verses: "And no message any clearer, and so I'm starting with the "Human being in the Mirror" (1987).[15] [17] Idolator's Becky Bain found similarities between Wayne'due south unmarried "How to Love" (2011) from the same anthology for its "introspective, sad and sweet" lyrics.[17]

Critical reception [edit]

The song received positive reviews from nearly music critics. Lewis Corner of Digital Spy gave the song 4 stars out of five. He plant that "The final result is much like the heartthrob himself; love-torn, moody and destined to be popular."[5] Billboard 's Joe DeAndrea commented that the rails was not only among Lil Wayne's best material, and found the vocals on the hook provided by Mars are quite "shine".[19] Another Billboard critic, Maria Sherman, praised Mars's claw, calling it "cinematic".[20] Omar Burgess of HipHopDX praised Wayne for "pushing the envelope" describing "Mirror" as a concept rail.[21] Conversely, brookencool of Circuitous included the track on his list of The 10 Worst Lil Wayne Songs. He felt Wayne's and Mars'south vocals sounded "forced and pieced together", and deemed the collaboration ineffective. Moreover, the critic found the song'southward reflective lyrics about Wayne's past and his mistakes shallow compared to Wayne's "All By Myself".[18]

Commercial performance [edit]

In the Us, "Mirror" debuted at its peak of number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number six on the Hot Digital Songs nautical chart, with 149,000 copies sold in its first calendar week. It coincided with the release of Wayne's album Tha Carter 4.[22] The single peaked at numbers 22 and 25 on the Billboard Rhythmic Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, respectively.[23] [24] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it three times platinum.[25] "Mirror" peaked at number 46 on the Canadian Hot 100.[26] In Australia, the song peaked at number 26, while information technology peaked at number 12 on the Australia Urban single charts.[27] [28] The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) certified "Mirror" two times platinum with 140,000 copies.[29]

In Europe, "Mirror" debuted at number 12 on the Danish charts, spending 10 weeks in that location.[30] IFPI Denmark certified it twice Platinum due to its streaming numbers beingness equivalent to 200,000 copies and it was certified Gold for selling over 15,000 copies.[31] [32] The recording debuted at number 47 on February 18, 2012. It eventually reached its peak at number xi on April 7, 2012.[33] In the United kingdom, the song debuted at 91 on the chart and peaked at number 17.[34] The British Phonographic Manufacture (BPI) certified the song gold.[35] On the Dutch Tiptop 40 charts, "Mirror" peaked at number 12.[36] The song managed to peak at number 13 and xv respectively in Slovakia and Switzerland.[37] [38]

Music video [edit]

Filming for the music video took identify in November 2011, directed by Antoine Fuqua.[39] GloriaFX created the visual effects. The company was responsible for the painting and the appearance and disappearance furnishings among others.[40] Vevo released a teaser of the music video on YouTube on Jan 27, 2012. The full-length video premiering on Vevo's official website on Jan 31, 2012.[41] [20]

The video begins with a shirtless Wayne continuing in a room, while a photographic camera shows various close-ups of his intricate tattoos.[12] [xx] As the chorus begins, Wayne is shown painting the room red and black equally Mars sings the chorus, while seated on the top of a ladder.[12] [20] [42] Wayne is too shown throwing red paint on the wall to create an unformed film.[20] The rest of the video focuses on Wayne blasting red, black and white paint all over the room.[12] [20] It is finally revealed that the painting is of Wayne himself crucified on a treble clef holding a mic in his left mitt. The rather convoluted background includes a face, clouds and lightning, all toned in magnificent blood-red.[12] [42] [43] Wayne and Mars stare at the masterpiece as the video comes to an end.[42]

Gregory Adams of Exclaim! complimented Wayne'southward final painting and chosen the rapper's video a "bizarre fine art world exploration".[12] Chris Coplan of Consequence of Sound said that the final scene fabricated the "Mona Lisa look like Dogs Playing Poker."[42]

Personnel [edit]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Tha Carter IV (Deluxe Edition).[6]

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

See besides [edit]

  • Crucifixion in the arts

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