Ultra Naté

Ultra Naté

Ultra Naté is an American house music, Dance-pop and sometimes R&B musician who has achieved a respectable amount of success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free" and "If You Could Read My Mind" as part of Stars on 54....

 covered "Automatic" and released it as the third single from her album Grime, Silk, & Thunder

Grime, Silk, & Thunder

Grime Silk Thunder is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter, Ultra Naté. The album includes her Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Airplay hits "Love's the Only Drug", "Give It All You Got", featuring Chris Willis, and "Automatic", which was previously a hit for the Pointer Sisters in...

. Her version topped the US dance chart, hitting number one in the issue dated April 28, 2007.

Music video

The music video for "Automatic" was directed by Karl Giant. Eric Henderson from Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine

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 commented of the music video's beginning: "For the first two or three minutes, it's nothing if not a stalwart representation of your standard gay-bar

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 video-jukebox fixture." Ultra Naté is later shown wearing a rhinestone-studded liquid Lycra while two men, apparently nude, watch her on their computers. Then Naté appears in a blow-up doll costume, which Henderson believed "sends the entire video into legitimately weird territory, as though David Meyers

Dave Meyers (director)

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 were asked to direct a video for Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails

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."

Track listing

• Belgian CD maxi-single

1. "Automatic" (Original Radio Mix) – 3:13
2. "Automatic" (Morgan Page
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    vs. Peace Bisquit Radio Mix) – 3:03
3. "Automatic" (Original Extended) – 6:12
4. "Automatic" (Daz & Diddy Mix) – 7:17

• US CD maxi-single

1. "Automatic" (Original Extended) – 6:16
2. "Automatic" (Digital Dog Mix) – 6:31
3. "Automatic" (Paul Jackson Version Excursion Mix) – 6:19
4. "Automatic" (Spen & Thommy Sugar Vocal Mix) – 8:42
5. "Automatic" (Daz & Diddy Mix) – 7:18
6. "Automatic" (Funky Junction & NK Club Mix) – 6:29
7. "Automatic" (Funky Junction & Splashfunk Mix) – 6:53
8. "Automatic" (Monkey Brothers Ultra Bad Remix) – 8:40
9. "Automatic" (Dave Pezza Electro Dub Mix) – 9:30
10. "Automatic" (Shawn Q's Soltribe Vocal Mix) – 8:47
11. "Automatic" (Morgan Page vs. Peace Bisquit Radio Mix) – 3:04

Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak Position
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)	5
Netherlands (Single Top 100)	86
Spain (PROMUSICAE)	5
US Hot Dance Airplay Hot Dance Airplay Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it...  (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... )	18
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... )	1

Cover versions and adaptations

• In 1987, "Automatic" is featured in the made-for-television reunion film The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
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  (1987).

• In 1991, the song was featured in the film Ricochet
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  , and can be heard at the beginning after the basketball game.

• The song "Automatic" was featured on the soundtrack of the popular 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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  .

• In 2006, Belgian singer Afi covered "Automatic". Her version became a minor hit in Belgium, where it reached top twenty on the Flanders Ultratip chart.

• In 2008, "Automatic" was covered
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   by UK rock supergroup
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   Hot Leg
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   (the band led by former lead singer of The Darkness, Justin Hawkins
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  ) on their I've Met Jesus EP.