Format CD
cassette Length 3:48 | Genre Pop
Hip hop
P-Funk
R&B Label London | |
Released 15 January 2001 (2001-01-15) Recorded 2000; Pierce Rooms (London) | ||
"All Hooked Up" is a song by All Saints, released as the third single from their second album, Saints & Sinners. It peaked at No. 7 in the UK charts. It also was All Saints' last single to be released from the aforementioned album. "All Hooked Up" sold 54,699 copies in the UK alone.
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Composition and lyrical interpretation
"All Hooked Up" is a hip hop, P-Funk and R&B song.
Critical response
"All Hooked Up" received generally favourable reviews from music critics. Sean O'Brien of The Sunday People gave the song a rating of eight out of ten, deeming it a "dirty sexy track with a lot of attitude" and "a great groove". Jon O'Brien from AllMusic likened it to songs by Lucy Pearl. The Sunday Herald praised the track for "maintaining the Saints' trademark tough-girl buffalo stance" and "cowboy-hat-wearing sass". Similarly, Nigel Packer from BBC News commended the song's lyrics which he felt had "bags of attitude". John Walshe of the Hot Press wrote: "Time has not curbed their libidos one iota, thankfully, nor their independence."
Russell Baillie of The New Zealand Herald criticised the group for fixating the lyrics on their buttocks and "trying desperately to be TLC". John Robinson of the NME found the lyrics weird and discomforting to be sung by the group and "like someone reading from a textbook on foundry work, translated from the original Hungarian", and dismissed the song as "woozy cheese music". In 2016, Lewis Corner from Digital Spy placed "All Hooked Up" at number nine in his ranking of All Saints singles, calling it "a so-so hip-hop-lite number that's about as gritty as a suburban cul-de-sac" and "not quite the swansong their fans were after at the time".
Chart performance
"All Hooked Up" debuted at number seven on the UK Singles Chart dated 27 January 2001, becoming All Saints' eighth consecutive top 10 single in the UK. It dropped to number 28 in its second week and went on to spend a total of 14 weeks on the chart. As of November 2006, "All Hooked Up" has sold 54,699 copies in the UK. It is the group's ninth best-selling single in the UK according to the Official Charts Company. Elsewhere, "All Hooked Up" charted in Ireland (number 18), the Netherlands (number 95), and Switzerland (number 96). In New Zealand, the song peaked at number 50 on the New Zealand Singles Chart for two consecutive weeks.
Music video
The accompanying music video for "All Hooked Up" was directed by Douglas Avery. The video was filmed over two days in London. The stunts done in the visual were painstakingly choreographed with no special effects. The video aired on 11 December 2000.
The music video features All Saints rooting out men in their motel rooms and then throwing them through windows, walls and closed doors.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Saints & Sinners.