Hotel Cabana is the debut studio album by British record producer Shahid 'Naughty Boy' Khan, released on 23 August 2013 through Naughty Boy Recordings and Virgin EMI. Khan set up his Naughty Boy Productions record and production company. He would find his break by producing Chipmunk's 2009 top-ten single 'Diamond Rings', featuring a then unknown Emeli Sandé. Naughty Boy released his own debut single as a signed artist in 2010. 'Never Be Your Woman' samples White Town's 1997 number-one single 'Your Woman' and featured British grime artist Wiley and Sandé on the chorus; it reached the top ten in the UK and is included as a bonus track on Hotel Cabana.

The collaboration marked the start of a partnership between Naughty Boy and Sandé which is seen throughout Hotel Cabana and Sandé's debut set, Our Version of Events (2012). Hotel Cabana is R&B, soul, garage, pop and hip hop music productions record, with influences from orchestral and Bollywood music. Naughty Boy describes it as an 'audio-visual experience' and a concept album based on a luxury hotel where musicians come to perform. Hotel Cabana reunites Naughty Boy with Sandé on eight collaborations, as well as features from other British artists such George the Poet, Sam Smith, Bastille, Tinie Tempah, Ella Eyre, Gabrielle, Wretch 32, Mic Righteous, Maiday, Chasing Grace, Ed Sheeran, and American rapperWiz Khalifa, who appears on the album's fourth single overall, 'Think About It', with Eyre. Ava Stokes, Tanika, Thabo and RØMANS make additional appearances on the US version of the album which was released by Virgin Records on 6 May 2014.

Prior to release, Hotel Cabana was promoted with several video trailers which included the collaborating artists arriving at the fictional hotel. It was also preceded by the release of three singles, including the two top-ten Sandé collaborations: 'Wonder' and 'Lifted', as well as the UK Singles Chart-topper 'La La La' which featured Sam Smith. Upon release, the album received generally favourable reviews from music critics, who praised the production, but with some criticism towards the concept, execution and some collaborations. Hotel Cabana made its chart debuts at number two in the UK, number five in Scotland and twenty-five in Ireland.

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Production and composition[edit]

Hotel Cabana is a pop, R&B, soul and hip hop music record, containing 'orchestral flourishes' and 'Bollywood inflections'.^[2][3] Naughty Boy called Hotel Cabana more than an album, it was an audio-visual concept. 'I want it to be an album for our time; it has a concept to it, so it's more like a film in some respects.' Speaking about putting together the album, he said 'I view it like I'm not just a producer – I'm a director too.'^[4] During an interview with the Watford Observer, Naughty Boy said 'It’s a very diverse, musically organic album. There’s a lot of dance-future music that’s going on now.' Explaining the 'hotel' concept, he said 'the album is like a hotel, and just like guests coming to stay, musicians appear on the album. Each song does stand alone, but all together, the album tells a story, it’s one guy’s journey, a bit like the song 'Hotel California', it’s a twisted journey. You can visit, but you can never leave, you can listen to the album, but you won’t be able to stop.^[5]

Hotel Cabana was recorded at Cabana Studios, a recording block located at Ealing Studios in London, UK; Naughty Boy told Sound on Sound magazine that the studio was always called 'Cabana' and that naming his debut album Hotel Cabana was in part inspired by the studio.^[6] The entire album was produced using Logic Pro and Reason.^[7] The album centres predominately around the themes of fame, 'involving debates about the tenuous nature of virtue and fidelity.'^[8] Speaking on how the album was composed, Naughty Boy used piano and live instruments, adding that it was 'just the basics. What they would have had in the 70s.'^[2] While making the album, Naughty Boy was influenced by M.I.A., Tracy Chapman, Joe Goddard, Woodkid and Major Lazer.^[4] On 19 August, Naughty Boy appeared on MistaJam's BBC Radio 1Xtra show to talk about the album track-by-track. 'Hotel Cabana where the sleepless kids live' was created following several days Naughty Boy and Sandé spent in the studio together.^[9]

George the Poet helps to establish the album's hotel concept through, starting with a monologue at the beginning of the set.^[10] This is followed by the album's opener, 'Welcome to Cabana' with Emeli Sandé and Tinie Tempah which describes Hotel Cabana as a mysterious place 'full of drama' and haunted by 'sleepless kids'.^[10] Meanwhile, 'Wonder' and 'Lifted', both two of eight collaborations with Sandé, experiment with gospel music.^[10][11] The latter collaboration contains elements of drum and bass and stadium music.^[12]The Independent's Andy Gill also described the production on 'Lifted' as a '[Naughty Boy] trademark Funky Drummer variant' with 'quirkily looped strings and backing vocals'.^[8] It was the Sandé and Wretch 32 collaboration, 'Pluto', that garnered some of the most positive comments, Gill said 'Pluto' best exemplified Naughty Boy's signature sound, which was a 'blend of vaunting synthesised strings and shuffling groove carries a two-way argument between Sandé and Wretch 32',^[8] while Aizlewood called all of the Sandé collaborations 'stellar'.^[13]

When conceiving the song 'Hollywood', Naughty Boy originally considered asking Dame Shirley Bassey to sing the vocals, describing the situation as 'epic', but in the end he thought it 'would be too much'. Upon hearing Gabrielle's song 'Out of Reach' on the radio he said 'her voice is so unique. It's not technically the best voice, but it stands on its own. It's incredible.'^[1]Digital Spy's Robert Copsey described the collaboration as 'the spookiest of them all', centering on 'how fame can be fleeting'.^[10] 'No One's Here to Sleep', a collaboration with Bastille, combines indie music and dance-pop, with soulful vocals from Bastille's lead vocalist Dan Smith.^[8] The lyrics center around the paranoia of fame.^[10]

Release[edit]

Hotel Cabana was first released on 23 August 2013 in Germany,^[11] Ireland^[14] and Spain^[15] by EMI and Universal Music. Its UK release came on 26 August 2013 through Naughty Boy's own production company Naughty Boy Recordings and Virgin EMI,^[16] with the producer's official website selling 500 limited edition signed copies of the album.^[17] In the following week, Hotel Cabana was released in Spain on 30 August^[18] and in Italy on 3 September 2013.^[19] It was released in Japan on 9 October through EMI Records Japan,^[20] while About.com's Bill Lamb confirmed that Capitol Records would be distributing the album at a later date in the United States.^[21]

With the absorption of EMI by Universal Music, and the subsequent reorganisation of record labels, Virgin Records and Capitol Records will now release Hotel Cabana in the United States. According to the iTunes store, it is due for release on 6 May 2014, and features three new songs: 'Never Been the Same,' featuring Thabo, 'Pardon Me,' featuring Tanika and Ava Stokes, and 'Home,' featuring Romans^[22] with the deluxe edition containing the bonus tracks from the international standard edition.^[23] 'La La La' and 'Pardon Me' are available as instant downloads upon pre-ordering the album.^[22]

Promotion[edit]

Marketing[edit]

On 20 September 2012, Naughty Boy uploaded the first visual trailer for Hotel Cabana to his Vevo account.^[24] To celebrate the success of single 'La La La', in May 2013, Naughty Boy uploaded a mixtape of his inspirations for the album to his Soundcloud page.^[4] On 17 July 2013, Naughty Boy premiered a second visual trailer for Hotel Cabana. The video, features Sandé, Bastille's Dan Smith, Professor Green, Wretch 32, Gabrielle and Sam Smith all arriving at the fictional Hotel Cabana, where Naughty Boy watches the arrivals on a TV screen.^[25] Additionally, on 14 August 2013, 'Think About It' featuring Wiz Khalifa and Ella Eyre, received its first play on BBC Radio 1Xtra's MistaJam radio show,^[26] while 'No One's Here to Sleep' featuring Bastille was released for free as a promotional single as part of iTunes 'Single of the Week' in the UK, for the week beginning 26 August 2013.^[27] On 18 August 2013, Sandé performed 'Lifted' at the mainstage during her set at the 2013 V Festival in Chelmsford, England and reprised the song this time with Naughty Boy later that same day for his set at 'Future Stage'.^[28] Sandé has also performed 'Pluto' (without Wretch 32 or Naughty Boy) during her Our Version of Events Tour, the song is included on the DVD of her Live at the Royal Albert Hall concert album.^[29]

Tour[edit]

On 3 September, Naughty Boy announced he was going on a UK tour in support of Hotel Cabana. He played for five dates, beginning with Brighton Concorde on 12 November 2013 and finishing O₂ ABC in Glasgow on 17 November.^[30]

Singles[edit]

On 12 August 2012, Music Week magazine confirmed that Naughty Boy's debut single would be titled 'Wonder', and would feature frequent collaborator Emeli Sandé. A video directed by Nadia Otzen was produced for the song and it was scheduled to be released 30 September 2012.^[32] However, the release of 'Wonder' was delayed and the single was released 21 October 2012 instead.^[33] Upon release, 'Wonder' reached number six in Scotland,^[34] eight in Ireland^[35] and number ten on the UK Singles Chart.^[36] Then over six months later, on 17 May 2013, Naughty Boy released 'La La La', featuring British vocalist Sam Smith, was released as the album's second single.^[37] Upon release, 'La La La' became Naughty Boy's biggest hit to date, topping the UK Singles chart and UK Dance Chart.^[38] It also reached number three in Ireland,^[39] Italy^[40] and Scotland^[41] and five in the Netherlands.^[42] It serves as the album's lead single in the US, where it has peaked at number nineteen, on the Billboard Hot 100, as of 8 April 2014. 'Lifted', another collaboration with Sandé, was released as the album's third single on 18 August 2013, preceding the album by a week.^[43][44] 'Lifted' became Naughty Boy's third top-ten single in Scotland and the UK, reaching number eight in both countries.^[45][46] In Ireland, it was slightly less successful, reaching only number twenty-one.^[47] 'Think About It' featuring Wiz Khalifa and Ella Eyre was released as the album's fourth single on 17 November 2013.^[48] 'Home', featuring RØMANS, will be released on 20 July 2014 as a single from the US edition of the album.^[49]

Critical response[edit]

The album received generally favourable reviews from music critics. Digital Spy's Robert Copsey gave the album four out of five stars, commenting that 'Hotel Cabana succeeds in a task previously thought impossible: giving personality and depth to a features album.' In his review, Copsey praised the opening section of the album, but noted that some of the urban-pop was generic and 'the concept starts to lose its footing around the halfway mark'.^[10] James Cabooter from the Daily Star also gave Hotel Cabana a positive review on the collaborations with Ed Sheeran ('Top Floor') and Sam Smith ('La La La').^[3]

John Aizlewood from the London Evening Standard was confused about what Hotel Cabana was conceptualising but called Naughty Boy's collaborations with Sandé 'stellar', praising 'Pluto' (also featuring Wretch 32) and 'Wonder'. Aizlewood said 'the result sounds like a compilation album, but a filler-free one where almost every song is capable of standing alone.'^[13]The Independent's Andy Gill awarded it the 'Album of the Week', praising Sandé's performance on the album, described as 'an impassioned lead'.^[8]AllMusic rated it 3.5 out of 5 stars, calling it 'unapologetically ostentatious, skillfully constructed pop.'^[50]The Times rated it 3 out of 5 stars, saying it 'proves far more interesting than you might imagine' but was critical of the album's reliance on Sandé and described Ed Sheeran as 'her twin in tedium, bleating away'.^[56]

However, not all of the reception was positive, with The Observer's Kitty Empire describing the album as predictable and 'Naughty? Hardly.' During her review, Empire said 'Hotel Cabana sounds as you would expect: homegrown, high-end urban pop that over-conceptualises the dangers of fame.' She praised the Ella Eyre and Wiz Khalifa collaboration 'Think About It' but said the remainder of the album was full of 'disparate voices [that] give this album the disjointed feel of a showreel.'^[54] musicOMH noted the album had 'a fair few missteps', specifically mentioning Ed Sheeran's contribution as 'dull as dishwater – and even that maybe going to easy on it', concluding the album wasn't 'coherent'.^[53]

Chart performance[edit]

On 28 August 2013, in the mid-week charts update, the Official Charts Company revealed that Hotel Cabana was a contender to top the UK Albums Chart. At the half-way mark, it was just 3,600 copies behind the mid-week leader Hail to the King by US rock band Avenged Sevenfold.^[57] On 1 September 2013, Hotel Cabana made its Scottish Albums Chart debut at number five and its UK Albums Chart debut at number two.^[58][59] On the Irish Albums Chart it debuted at number twenty-five.^[60] In Switzerland, the album debuted at number thirty-four but rose to a new peak of number eight in its second week on the chart.^[61] Similarly in Belgium, on the Flanders Album Chart it debuted and number eighty-five and 120 on the Wallonia Albums Chart; in its second week it rose to number seventy-four and number seventy on the Flanders and Wallonia album charts respectively.^[62][63]

Track listing[edit]

International edition[edit]

US edition[edit]

Notes

• ^{^[a]} de-notes additional production by
• ^{^[b]} de-notes co-production by
• On the digital editions of the album, track 15 is credited as 'featuring Wiley and Emeli Sandé' but on the CD-edition of the album it is credited as 'Naughty Boy Presents Wiley featuring Emeli Sandé'.^[44][66]
• 'Never Be Your Woman' contains a sample of White Town's 1997 single 'Your Woman', written by Joyti Mishra, which in turn was based on 'My Woman' written by Bing Crosby, Irving Wallman, Max Wartell.^[66]
• 'Get Lucky' is a cover of Daft Punk's 2013 hit single 'Get Lucky'.^[8]

Personnel[edit]

Recording

• Recorded at Cabana Studios (Ealing Studios) in Ealing, West London.^[6]
• Mixing/overdubbing at Genesis Sound Studios, Fisher Lane Farm in Surrey, UK.^[6]
• Audio mastering by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis Mastering Studios in London, UK.^[66]

Management and creative^[66]

• Glyn Aikins – A&R
• Tim Blacksmith – executive producer
• Riki Bleau – executive producer
• Danny D – executive producer
• Check Morris – artwork
• Dan Sanders – commissioner

Vocals^[66]

• Grace Ackerman (track 10)
• Kahlia Bakosi (background vocals, track 2)
• Ella Eyre(track 4)
• Gabrielle(track 5)
• George the Poet(tracks 1, 6 and 14)
• Professor Green(track 18)
• Luke Juby (background vocals, track 8, 9 and 13)
• Wiz Khalifa(track 4)
• Maiday (track 8)
• Mcknasty (background vocals track 17)
• Philip Plested (track 10)
• RØMANS(US edition track 16)
• Mic Righteous (track 8)
• Emeli Sandé(tracks 2, 3, 9, 12, 15, 16, 18 and 19)
• Ed Sheeran(track 13)
• Dan Smith(track 11)
• Sam Smith(track 7)
• Ava Stokes (US edition track 9)
• Tanika (track 17 and US edition track 9)
• Thabo (US edition track 5)
• Tinie Tempah(track 2)
• Wiley(track 15)
• Wretch 32(track 9)

Musicians and Technicians^[66]

• Wez Clarke – mixdown engineer, additional programming
• Jonny Coffer – strings
• Craze & Hoax (Harry Craze and Hugo Chegwin) – producers, instruments, programming, recording technicians
• Ifan Dafydd – remixer, additional production
• Luke Juby – piano, saxophone, strings, acoustic guitar, bass strings, bass
• Komi – producer, instruments, programming
• Frobisher 'Froby' Mbabzi – keyboards
• Mojam (Mustafa Omer and James Murray) – producers, recording technicians, instruments, programming
• Naughty Boy – producer, recording technician, instruments, programming
• Daniela Rivera – assistant mastering engineer
• Jonny Rocha – bass
• Ed Sheeran – guitar
• Sunny – recording engineer
• Jasmin Tadjiky – instruments, programming
• Phil Tan – mastering engineer

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Year-end charts[edit]

Release history[edit]

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'La La La' is a song released by British record producer Naughty Boy, featuring vocals from Sam Smith. It was released on 18 May 2013 as the second single from Naughty Boy's debut album Hotel Cabana (2013) and it appears on the deluxe version of Smith's debut album In the Lonely Hour (2014). The track reached number one on the music charts for 26 countries, including the UK Singles Chart. Upon its release, it was confirmed by the Official Charts Company as the fastest-selling single of 2013 in the UK.^[1] By the end of 2013, the song was the sixth fastest-selling single of the year in the UK, selling 145,000 copies in the first week.^[2]

The song is used as the theme song for the film The Internship.

Production and composition

According to Naughty Boy, 'La La La' was conceived from experiences similar to the song 'Don't Speak' by No Doubt, which 'came from something [he] felt'. He states that, 'It was just before everything popped up and she was somebody I neglected while I was trying to find me. When I found me, she found it best to neglect me. It's cool... Covering my ears like a kid and saying, 'La. La. La.' It's the man-kid in me.'^[3]

'La La La' was written by Khan, Jonny Coffer, Al-Hakam El Kaubaisy, Frobisher Mbabazi, James Murray, Jimmy Napes, Mustafa Omer, and Sam Smith. Although Naughty Boy originally intended to write the song with Emeli Sandé, she was on tour at the time, and he wrote it with Sam Smith instead. Naughty Boy said 'It just had to be Sam because where it went from there is perfect.'^[4] Naughty Boy and Komi produced the track, with co-production handled by Mojam. The song was produced using Logic Pro, FL Studio 11 and Reason.^[5] It was recorded and mixed at Cabana Studios (Ealing Studios) in Ealing, West London, and mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis Mastering Studios in London, UK.^[6] The song was finished in three hours, and was the last done for Hotel Cabana.^[7]

'La La La' plays for three minutes and 40 seconds. The piece is performed in F minor, with the chord progression of Fm—Cm—Bm followed for most of the song, and Sam Smith's vocals range two octaves, from C₄ to C₆. The song performs in common time at a tempo of 126 beats per minute. The track has tones of liquid drum and bass and old-school garage, and a hook layered with a Hindi and Bollywood vocal sample.^[8]

Release

'La La La' premiered on BBC Radio 1Xtra in May 2013.^[9] Smith and Naughty Boy performed 'La La La' at the 2013 Jingle Bell Ball held by Global Radio.^[10]

The track's producer and co-writer Komi also released a remix ('La La La' – Komi and JL remix) which received considerable airplay.^[11]

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of 'La La La' was first released on YouTube on 18 April 2013 at a total length of four minutes and three seconds.^[12] The video is directed by Ian Pons Jewell (who studied at the University College for the Creative Arts, now the University for the Creative Arts)^[13] and shot in four days^[14] in La Paz, Salar de Uyuni and Potosí (Cerro Rico), Bolivia. Ian Pons Jewell was commissioned by Virgin EMI to create the concept for the video, which focuses on a child's magical journey. Jewell said that others compared the video to the Wizard of Oz and a local legend of the demon El Tío and that both legends influenced the concept of the video.^[15]

Synopsis of the video

The video starts with the opening of a door marked with the number 1111, a number related to be a sign of change. In the music video,^[12] a young boy is being verbally abused by a man who is presumably his father. Looking out of his apartment window, he sees an unusually dressed man and his dog standing on the pavement outside. This man could be the representation of the 'Ekeko', a South American figure representative of good luck and abundance. The boy then puts his fingers in his ears and begins singing 'La la la' in response to his father's outburst. Running out of the apartment, the boy joins the mysterious figure outside and pets his dog. Seeing the boy outside, the father picks up an egg from a bird's nest on the window-sill and throws it down at the boy.

The boy and dog run away and the scene cuts from evening to daytime. The boy is walking the dog along a city street, in what is inferred to be La Paz, Bolivia, and he goes into a store front and downstairs. In the basement of the building, he finds a gymnasium and a scared-looking man who is covered in dust; this man looks like a disgraced 'Ekeko.' The man holds a stereo which is providing music for a group of women doing aerobics with one woman who is obviously a leader and abuses both the man and the others since their mascara is running down their cheeks from crying. The boy encourages the man to leave, but he appears reluctant. The boy then mimes the act of putting his fingers in his ears and singing 'La la la', and the man responds by turning off the volume on the stereo. The leader begins yelling at the man, and he puts his fingers in his ears and sings 'La la la' in response to her tirade. The dusty man, boy and dog leave the gymnasium and are followed by the woman who yells after them as they leave.

The pair then come across an ice cream vendor on the street; a popular figure easy to find on the streets of some South American cities. The boy gives him some coins, and he takes out what appears to be a human heart from a collection in his cart. He holds the heart in the air, the boy looks at him and then slips it inside the jacket pocket of the dusty man. Echoing the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, the man now has a heart. The boy then looks onto the road and sees a traffic policeman dressed in an unusually colored police uniform with an elephant-like mask covering his face. His uniform, as well as his exaggerated nose and ears, are made of knitted fabric. The traffic policeman is dancing as he directs traffic, but the cars and pedestrians seem to ignore him. The boy once again mimes plugging his ears to the policeman, who then performs the gestures himself. This figure is reminiscent of artists and clowns who often perform on the streets in South American cities for money. The three leave together with the dog, and the scene cuts to their journey into a mountainous region outside of the city. They walk along disused railway tracks and pass a discarded, unplugged television that still shows images on the screen. Their journey takes them across long plains of salt flats, with the traffic policeman carrying the sleeping boy and the dusty man walking the dog.

The scene cuts to nightfall where they have set up a camp fire. The boy sleeps in the arms of the traffic policeman while the dusty man holds and pats the dog. The scene cuts to the next day, where they walk up a hillside towards an abandoned mine. Leaving the dog tied at the entrance, they enter the mine. They discover El Tío sitting immobile at the end of a tunnel. At the sight of the figure, the boy begins crying and is hugged and comforted by both men. The men then leave, and the boy remains kneeling before the figure and singing 'la la la' with his fingers in his ears. The video ends with the two men and the dog walking away from the mine.

Critical reception

Lewis Corner of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review, stating:

Accolades

It won in both the 'Best Song' and 'Best Video' categories at the 2013 MOBO Awards.^[16][17] The song was nominated for a 2014 BRIT Award for Best British Single.^[18]

Commercial performance

'La La La' was announced to be the fifth biggest-selling song of 2013 in the United Kingdom.^[19] Its video was the eighth most popular YouTube video of 2013, and the United Kingdom's top trending video of the year.^[20] By September 2017, it had sold 1.07 million copies in the UK.^[21] In the United States, it reached number nine on the BillboardPop Digital Songs chart.^[22]

Usage in media

The frame between the 1:30 and 1:31 which shows the young boy at the gym with his fingers in his ears was used in a campaign against the use of a certain type of dangerous firework called 'Pokerata' in the Peruvian National Police's Facebook account.^[23] However, none of the major radio stations in Peru have aired or actually airs the song. In July 2017, a remix by DJ Speaker was used as the intro to the No Days Roff video, 'SO MANY TO TRY!'.

Credits

Recording^[6]

• Recorded and mixed at Cabana Studios (Ealing Studios) in Ealing; West London, UK.^[6]
• Mastered at Metropolis Mastering in London, UK.^[6]

Personnel^[6]

• Jonny Coffer – songwriter, strings
• Al-Hakam 'Komi' El-Kaubaisy – songwriter, producer, instruments, programming
• Shahid 'Naughty Boy' Khan – songwriter, producer, recording engineer, instruments, programming
• Wez Clarke – mix engineer

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

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Release history

See also

Notes and References

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