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Who Let the Dogs Out
"Who Let the Dogs Out" (originally titled "Doggie") is a song written by the Trinidadian musician Anslem Douglas and then recorded by the Bahamian Junkanoo band Baha Men. Originally released by Douglas as "Doggie" in 1998, it was covered by producer Jonathan King who sang it under the name Fat Jakk and his Pack of Pets. King brought the song to the attention of his friend Steve Greenberg, who then had the Baha Men cover the song.
The Baha Men version, released in 2000, became the band's sole hit in the United States, and it gained popularity after appearing in the film Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. It peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as topping the charts in Australia and New Zealand, and reached the Top 40 in the United States. In Britain, it was championed by DJ John Peel and went on to be the fourth-biggest-selling single of 2000 and one of the highest-selling singles of the decade not to reach No. 1. The track went on to win the Grammy for Best Dance Recording at the 2001 Grammy Awards.
According to Douglas, the original song was a feminist anthem critical of men who catcall women. "Who Let the Dogs Out" became a prominent feature of Bahamian popular culture and was the subject of a major lawsuit over copyright ownership that was settled in the decades since its release. In 2019, an eponymous-titled documentary about the creation of the song was the surprise hit of the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas.
The song was originally released in 1998 as "Doggie" (or "Dogie") by Trinidadian calypso/soca/Junkanoo artist Anslem Douglas. Douglas himself has said that the song has nothing to do with dogs and actually has a feminist theme critical of men who catcall women. In an interview that was published on his website, he said:
It's a man-bashing song. I'll tell you why. The lyric of the song says, "The party was nice, the party was pumpin'." When I said the word "party" I was being metaphorical. It really means things were going great. The "Yippie-Yi-Yo," that's everybody's happy, right? "And everybody was having a ball." Life was going great. "Until the men start the name-callin' / And then the girls respond to the call." So the men started calling the women "skank" and "skettel," every dirty word you can think of. The men started the name-calling and then the girls respond to the call. And then a woman shouts out, "Who let the dogs out?" And we start calling men dogs. It was really a man-bashing song.
Douglas has stated that he did not come up with the song's namesake phrase himself. The origins of the phrase have been disputed. Variations of the "Who let the dogs out?” chant are evident in regional high school sports, the oldest surviving footage of which is 1986 footage from a game at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. In 1992, Brett Hammock and Joe Gonzalez also recorded a song called "Who Let the Dogs Out?” as rap duo Miami Boom Productions out of Jacksonville, Florida. In 1995, 20 Fingers and Gillette released "You're a Dog" in 1995 with a similar chorus. Following the success of the Baha Men version of the song, producers Patrick Stephenson and Leroy Williams said that they had previously written a radio promo for WBLK in Buffalo, NY containing the "Who Let The Dogs Out" phrase.
Baha Men member Dyson Knight explained to Vice how the band came to record the song:
The manager of the Baha Men at that time heard a version of the song from Europe. He called [Knight's bandmate] Isaiah [Taylor] and told him it was an absolute must that Baha Men record that song, because they had the vibe to make it a huge hit. Isaiah heard the song and said there was "no way in hell we're recording that song". ... Management had the vision, and the Baha Men were reluctant, but the group went in and recorded it anyway.
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Who Let the Dogs Out
"Who Let the Dogs Out" (originally titled "Doggie") is a song written by the Trinidadian musician Anslem Douglas and then recorded by the Bahamian Junkanoo band Baha Men. Originally released by Douglas as "Doggie" in 1998, it was covered by producer Jonathan King who sang it under the name Fat Jakk and his Pack of Pets. King brought the song to the attention of his friend Steve Greenberg, who then had the Baha Men cover the song.
The Baha Men version, released in 2000, became the band's sole hit in the United States, and it gained popularity after appearing in the film Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. It peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as topping the charts in Australia and New Zealand, and reached the Top 40 in the United States. In Britain, it was championed by DJ John Peel and went on to be the fourth-biggest-selling single of 2000 and one of the highest-selling singles of the decade not to reach No. 1. The track went on to win the Grammy for Best Dance Recording at the 2001 Grammy Awards.
According to Douglas, the original song was a feminist anthem critical of men who catcall women. "Who Let the Dogs Out" became a prominent feature of Bahamian popular culture and was the subject of a major lawsuit over copyright ownership that was settled in the decades since its release. In 2019, an eponymous-titled documentary about the creation of the song was the surprise hit of the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas.
The song was originally released in 1998 as "Doggie" (or "Dogie") by Trinidadian calypso/soca/Junkanoo artist Anslem Douglas. Douglas himself has said that the song has nothing to do with dogs and actually has a feminist theme critical of men who catcall women. In an interview that was published on his website, he said:
It's a man-bashing song. I'll tell you why. The lyric of the song says, "The party was nice, the party was pumpin'." When I said the word "party" I was being metaphorical. It really means things were going great. The "Yippie-Yi-Yo," that's everybody's happy, right? "And everybody was having a ball." Life was going great. "Until the men start the name-callin' / And then the girls respond to the call." So the men started calling the women "skank" and "skettel," every dirty word you can think of. The men started the name-calling and then the girls respond to the call. And then a woman shouts out, "Who let the dogs out?" And we start calling men dogs. It was really a man-bashing song.
Douglas has stated that he did not come up with the song's namesake phrase himself. The origins of the phrase have been disputed. Variations of the "Who let the dogs out?” chant are evident in regional high school sports, the oldest surviving footage of which is 1986 footage from a game at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. In 1992, Brett Hammock and Joe Gonzalez also recorded a song called "Who Let the Dogs Out?” as rap duo Miami Boom Productions out of Jacksonville, Florida. In 1995, 20 Fingers and Gillette released "You're a Dog" in 1995 with a similar chorus. Following the success of the Baha Men version of the song, producers Patrick Stephenson and Leroy Williams said that they had previously written a radio promo for WBLK in Buffalo, NY containing the "Who Let The Dogs Out" phrase.
Baha Men member Dyson Knight explained to Vice how the band came to record the song:
The manager of the Baha Men at that time heard a version of the song from Europe. He called [Knight's bandmate] Isaiah [Taylor] and told him it was an absolute must that Baha Men record that song, because they had the vibe to make it a huge hit. Isaiah heard the song and said there was "no way in hell we're recording that song". ... Management had the vision, and the Baha Men were reluctant, but the group went in and recorded it anyway.