Survivor - Destiny's Child Metal Cover

Destiny's Child - Survivor Metal Cover performed by Cam Bird

Survivor is the third studio album by American girl group Destiny's Child. It was first released by Columbia Records on May 1, 2001, in the United States. The album features production by lead singer Beyoncé Knowles and J.R. Rotem, with additional production from Poke & Tone, Cory Rooney and Mark J. Feist. Five singles were released from the album: "Independent Women Part I", "Survivor", "Bootylicious", a cover of Samantha Sang's "Emotion", and "Nasty Girl".

In the US, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart on May 19, 2001 with first-week sales of 663,000 copies and stayed at number one for two consecutive weeks. It earned Destiny's Child two Grammy nominations for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Best R&B Album. Survivor was certified quadruple Platinum by the RIAA on January 7, 2002. Billboard ranked Survivor at number 70 on the magazine's Top 200 Albums of the Decade.[2] The album has sold over 4.7 million copies in the United States[*] and 12 million copies worldwide.

In December 1999, LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson tried to split with their manager, Mathew Knowles, claiming that he was keeping too much of the group's profits and that he favored Beyoncé Knowles and Kelly Rowland.[3] When the music video for "Say My Name" debuted in February 2000, Roberson and Luckett found out that they were being replaced with Michelle Williams, a former backup singer for Monica, and Farrah Franklin, an aspiring singer-actress.[3] In July 2000, just five and a half months after joining, it was announced that Franklin would be leaving the group.[3] According to the group, Franklin missed a handful of promotional appearances and concerts and was asked to leave the group.[3] Franklin stated that she quit because of negative vibes in the group and her inability to assert any control in decision making.[3]

Recording
After emerging as the group's focal point, Knowles assumed more control taking a greater hand in writing the material and even producing some of the record herself.[4] Knowles' intention was not to monopolize the spotlight, however, she did co-write and produce all of the album's 18 cuts. She explained, "I only wanted to do like three songs... The label kept saying "Do another song, do another song, do another song". It wasn't planned. It wasn't like I said, OK, I'm going to take charge."[5] The album was originally planned to be called Independent Women, but was later changed to Survivor because of the turmoil that has coincided with the group.[6]

The song "Survivor" was inspired by a pun that a radio station had made about the fact that three members had already left the group, comparing the band to the reality game show Survivor.[7] Knowles was inspired to take the negative comment and turn it into a positive thing by writing a song out of it.[7] Knowles wrote the song "Bootylicious" on a plane flight to London while listening to the track "Edge of Seventeen" by Stevie Nicks when the word "Bootylicious" just popped in to her head.[5] This claim has been highly disputed as Rob Fusari said in a 2010 interview that he alone had the idea for the song and had wanted to use a guitar riff from the song "Eye of the Tiger" but after not being able to find it used a similar riff from the Stevie Nicks song "Edge of Seventeen". After hearing Beyoncé claim credit for the song in an interview with Barbara Walters, he telephoned Mathew Knowles,

And he explained to me, in a nice way, he said, "People don't want to hear about Rob Fusari, producer from Livingston, N.J. No offense, but that's not what sells records. What sells records is people believing that the artist is everything." And I'm like, "Yeah, I know, Mathew. I understand the game. But come on, I'm trying too. I'm a squirrel trying to get a nut, too."[8]

While recording sessions were going on, Rowland recorded the song "Angel" which appeared on the soundtrack of Down to Earth.[4]

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