Ciara, Goodies | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 92^nd edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we highlight “Goodies” performed by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo. 

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 92^nd edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we break down “Goodies” performed by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo.

“My goodies, my goodies, my goodies / Not my goodies!” “Goodies” is one of the great earworms of the 2000s. This opening track from Goodies is the song that put Grammy-winning R&B artist Ciara ‘on the map.’ Assisted by rapper Petey Pablo, Ciara spent seven weeks at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Backed by a minimalist, crunk instrumental produced by Lil Jon, “Goodies” sounds fresh two decades after it was originally released.  The looped synth is infectious, anchored by a simple but potent groove.  Eventually, more synths enter the mix but never at the expense of the lead vocals.

Ciara never breaks a sweat.  Those goodies are firmly intact – they’re not just going to any guy. Her vocals are breathy, enticing, and sexy.  “Baby, this is what I’m lookin’ for,” she sings in the first, continuing, “Sexy, independent, gotta spend it type that’s gettin’ his dough / I’m not bein’ too dramatic, that’s the way I gotta have it.” In the third verse, she adds to the requirements: “Just because you drive a Benz / I’m not goin’ home with you / You won’t get no nookie or the cookies, I’m no rookie.” Word.  Of course, the centerpiece is the chorus, one of the all-time greats of the aughts:

“I bet you want the goodies (Ah)

Bet you thought about it (Yeah)

Got you all hot and bothered (Ow)

Mad ‘cause I talk around it

If you’re lookin’ for the goodies

Keep on lookin’, ‘cause they stay in the jar

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, yeah.”

Ciara is the star, but Petey Pablo ‘brings the heat’ too.  He performs the first and fourth verses.  He sets the tone in the first, proclaiming himself as “The truth, and I ain’t got nothin’ to prove / And you can ask anybody ’cause they seen me do it /…Barricades? I run right through ’em, used to ’em.” As for the fourth verse, he spits game regarding his success with women: “All I got to do is tell a girl who I am (Petey) / Ain’t ne’er chick in here that I can’t have / Bada boom, bada bam, ba-bam (I’m bad).” Ciara and Petey Pablo drop a multiplatinum banger for all ages with “Goodies”.

Ciara // Goodies // LaFace // 2004

Ciara, Goodies: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 92 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; LaFace; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]