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Good Girls Go Bad

"Good Girls Go Bad" is a song by American pop band Cobra Starship with guest vocals by Leighton Meester. It was the first single released from their third studio album, Hot Mess. The song was released digitally through iTunes on May 12, 2009. On May 8, 2009, "Good Girls Go Bad" made its radio debut on KIIS-FM with Ryan Seacrest's show.

The song was produced by former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi and Kevin Rudolf. The song went on to become Cobra Starship and Leighton Meester's first US hit and top 10, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified double-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting over 2 million copies sold in the United States. The song received heavy airplay in Canada as well, peaking at six on Canada's radio airplay chart week ending October 3, 2009. The song also debuted on Radio 1 in the UK in September 2009. The song was licensed to various media.

Some of the official remixes also feature rapper Flo Rida.

The band was first offered to work with Kara DioGuardi in 2009, just as DioGuardi was becoming an American Idol judge. Vocalist Gabe Saporta explained,

We got offered to work with Kara right as she was becoming an American Idol judge. We didn't know who she was. She didn't know who we were. We got hooked up with her. I'm like, 'Who is this person?' She's like, 'Who's this annoying band?' But we got in the room, and it was like magic, and we wrote the song in 15 minutes. It's, like, the best song on our album.

Fifteen minutes after the creation of the hook for the song, the entire track was done. On April 27, 2009, it was announced Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester would be featured. Lead singer Gabe Saporta had wanted Meester to be featured in the song because "it's already kind of her character in Gossip Girl, like the perfect girl with the bad streak." Once Meester heard "Good Girls Go Bad", she took an immediate liking to it. "I thought, 'I need to get on that!' It totally is my sound too. Really fun to dance to it. Very edgy and cool".

"Good Girls Go Bad" is in A Minor and has a vocal range between A3 through C5. The song moves at 126 bpm and is set in 4
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time. The song maintains a sequence of Am–C–G–F.

Cobra Starship has performed the song live with Nicole Scherzinger at 36th People's Choice Awards, and Paulina Rubio at Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009. In October 2009, the group performed the track on Jimmy Kimmel Live. On November 18, 2009, at the Flagship Store of American Eagle Outfitters, Leighton Meester gave her first-ever live performance of the song. On November 24, 2009, Leighton Meester appeared on stage with Cobra Starship at the OP Presents Tour at the Nokia Theatre, marking the first time they performed the song live together. As a surprise guest on Fall Out Boy's 2024 "So Much For 2our Dust" tour, Gabe Saporta and Vicky-T of Cobra Starship performed the song at the Anaheim show on March 4.

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