"Backseat" is a song written and recorded by American

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featuring American production duo

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and American singer Dev. The song was released as a single on February 15, 2011 as a digital download in the

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and served as the second single from New Boyz' second album ''Too Cool to Care''. The song contains elements of

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, and

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and contains use of

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on some of the vocals.

Music video

A music video was directed by Jake Davis. It was premiered on March 7, 2011. It features appearances by featured artist Dev in shiny glittering dress, which changes into a white-and-pink dress with a quarter of a pyramid and The Cataracs. The first few scenes were shot with a silver Mercedes-Benz 300SL, with appearance by all artists. The scene changes to a "party in a club" scene after the second chorus, and the back seats of a car, given the title of the song. It ends with New Boyz being covered by the shadows. Ironically, the music video contains cars that actually don't feature back seats as well as a Mustang in place of the Camaro that is not orange. Also in the video, car miniatures were used to create an illusion of it being full-scale models.

Track listing

* iTunes released "Backseat" as a deluxe single. ; Deluxe single

Charts

"Backseat" debuted at #37 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and has peaked at #26 in its twelfth week, Hot 100 - Top 31-40from Billboard.com becoming the duo's third top forty hit in the United States. As of July 2011, the song has now sold over 1,000,000 digital copies.

Year-end charts

References

2011 singles 2011 songs New Boyz songs Dev (singer) songs The Cataracs songs Universal Republic Records singles Song recordings produced by the Cataracs Songs written by David Singer-Vine Songs written by Kshmr Songs written by Dev (singer) {{2010s-hiphop-single-stub