Music » Discography » Strawberry Kisses
Released June 11, 2001
Tracks
1. Strawberry Kisses (radio mix)
2. Strawberry Kisses (fresh kisses mix)
3. Strawberry Kisses (karaoke mix)
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More Information
• Strawberry Kisses is Nikki Webster's debut single. She was 14 years old at the time is was released, nine months after the Sydney Olympics.
• Written by Jeff Franzel, Andy Marveil and Marjorie Maye.
• Achieved Platinum status (sales of 70, 000 +).
• Nominated for Highest Selling Single at the 15th Annual ARIA Awards in 2001.
• Nikki performed a dark, electro version of Strawberry Kisses, dressed as a wind-up doll, with Toby Allen at Sleaze Ball 2007. See the performance in the clip below.
Video by ozgrunt
• In a 2003 article, Nikki said of the pink boots she wore in the video clip, “I think they might have brought me a bit of luck, because of how well Strawberry Kisses went. You know, I don’t think I’ll get rid of them, even if I grow out of them. It’s a memory that I’ll always hold… of that day doing the film clip.”
• Brazilian girl band Rouge covered the song in Portuguese (called Beijo Molhado) in 2002 for their debut album. Watch them perform it live here on YouTube.
• In September 2009 Strawberry Kisses was #3 on a list of ‘Songs You Should Never Have On Your Ipod’ on The Spearman Experiment.
• Nikki said of the songs on The Best of Nikki Webster, “They are songs that really mean something to me. Strawberry Kisses would have to be my favourite because it was my first song.”
• Strawberry Kisses is played in Chris Lilley's mockumentary series Summer Heights High, in a scene at the school dance in episode three. Hear it in the episode 3 trailer on YouTube.
Nikki on 'Strawberry Kisses'
"I love it! I wish I wrote the track! [laughs] The great thing about it is it doesn't matter how old people are, they still remember the chorus, and to me that's a great sign of a pop song. I can be out with my friends and young guys will come up and they've had a few drinks and they'll be singing Strawberry Kisses, and yeah they don't know all the words, but they know the tune, and it amazes me! I'm like, 'How do you know the tune? It so wouldn't have been cool when you were 14, 15 to like Nikki Webster.' So, I mean they're taking the piss out of me when they're singing it to me but I kinda get in there and sing it with them and go, 'This is great!' So I think it's one of those songs that has been passed down in generations for some reason. At my dance studio I have five year olds singing it to me and they weren't even born, so it's obviously been passed down. It's a good song." (2009)"I have done a dance mix of it, for nightclubs, and I did Sleazeball for Mardi Gras and it was a really kind of dark version of Strawberry Kisses, but I'd love to strip Strawberry Kisses apart and I'm good friends with Jeff Franzel, the guy that wrote the track, in New York, and we always joke about it over Skype. We're like, 'Let's strip it back, let's make it really cool and really freak them out!' [laughs] Maybe one day!" (2009)
"It's a good fun track. I wouldn't want to ever not put it in my set, that's for sure." (2009)
"It's weird because it's four years since I first started and I look back at my first video clip Strawberry Kisses and I go, 'Oh my God, did I used to look like that?' and it's kind of scary because I never thought I'd be able to do that. So it's kind of creepy for yourself to look back and go 'Is that how I moved? That's scary!' But it's good fun, it's all good fun." (2004)