Whistle

Album

This Is How We Do It

Label

Poe Boy Entertainment

Genre

Electropop

Composer(s)

T.Dillard,D.Glass,J.Franks,B.Isaac,A.C.Mobley,M.Killian

Entered Chart

May 12, 2012

Peak Date

Aug 25, 2012

Released

April 24, 2012

Recorded

2011

Catalog #

Poe Boy Digital

The music video for "Whistle" was directed by Marc Klasfeld and premiered on May 24, 2012, at 4 p.m. EST.[27][28][29] A preview of the video was released on May 21, 2012.[28] It was filmed in Acapulco, Mexico.[4][30] A behind-the-scenes video was released the next day on May 25, 2012.[29] It makes use of split screen at various points. It mostly shows Flo Rida lying on a bed on a beach singing the song.[citation needed] Hamish Macbain of NME described the video, "The video setting: Flo Rida, topless, head shaved, shorts on, on a cliff edge. Other video personnel: women in bikinis, some allowed to whistle to take Flo Rida’s dream outlined at the beginning of this track one step closer to reality."[9] Becky Bain of Idolator reviewed the video positively, saying: "Flo Rida's thinly-veiled sexual euphimism, 'Whistle', gets exactly the type of video you’d expect: shot in sunny Acalpulco, the ... vid[eo] features boobs, babes, bikinis, and little else. The clip also acts as a video pamphlet for any millionaires out there looking to find the next location for their luxury vacation. Flo Rida and his booty-shakin’ ladies not included, but with an unbelievable setting like this, you can do more than just whistle the night away."[30] A writer of Rap-Up noted that "Water, women, and wild parties rule" with the video and further wrote that viewers will "escape to paradise with Flo".[31] Katherine St Asaph of Popdust gave a mixed review for the video, writing that "it's fitting that the 'Whistle' video is basically an update of 'Wild Ones,' with less Sia and more whistling".[32] However, she praised the landscapes in the video, saying that "This could double as a travel commercial–a commercial for the very idea of travel.