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"Woman Like Me" is a song by British girl group Little Mix featuring American rapper Nicki Minaj, released on 12 October 2018 by Syco Music. The song was announced in a video posted to social media on 30 September, with the group posting a video several days earlier of them singing the song a cappella. Earlier in September, they had posted a clip of them recording a track in the studio.
The song has been teased by the group on social media since May 2018,, and will serve as the lead single from the album LM5. "Woman Like Me" reached number two in both the UK and Scotland and number three in Ireland.
Background and release
"Woman Like Me" was written by Jess Glynne, Ed Sheeran, Onika Maraj with help from Steve Mac who also handled the production. Sheeran and the group "went into the studio and tweaked little bits, and made it a little more" as they recall, "more personal to us." Phill Tan mixed the track, with Randy Merrill then mastering the song. It was then released on Spotify at midnight. In October 2018, Cardi B claimed during an Instagram post that she has been sent the track beforehand as a request to collaborate and did not accept because she was already working on other songs, so it was then offered to Minaj, after the latter said that she was interfering with her collaborators. Little Mix later claimed that the record label sent the song to both rappers, but they had always wanted to collaborate with Minaj.
Composition
Jess Glynne (left) and Ed Sheeran (right) contributed to the songwriting.
"Woman Like Me" is a pop and reggae fusion song, with an urban groove. British singer Jess Glynne stated she wrote the song for her second album Always In Between with Ed Sheeran and Steve Mac, but that it "didn't fit where the album was going", so she gave the song to Little Mix to record. Glynne's vocals can still be heard in the song.
Sam Damshenas from XXL called the song a "reggae-infused pop song" and calling Minaj's verse similar to her feature in Ariana Grande's single "Side To Side". According to sheet music published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing on Musicnotes.com, "Woman Like Me" is composed in the key of F minor and set in common time at a moderate tempo of 150 beats per minute. Little Mix's voices range from Eb3 to a high Eb5.
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