You Don't Know Me (Victorious song)

"You Don't Know Me"
Song by Victorious cast featuring Elizabeth Gillies
from the EP Victorious 3.0: Even More Music from the Hit TV Show
ReleasedNovember 6, 2012
Genre
Length2:53
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Today Kid
  • Sy Rhys Kaye

"You Don't Know Me" is a song by the Victorious cast featuring American actress and singer Elizabeth Gillies. The track was officially released on Victorious 3.0: Even More Music from the Hit TV Show, the show's second and final extended play on November 6, 2012. The song also appeared in a Victorious episode titled "Tori Fixes Beck and Jade". The track was written by Gillies, Sam Bisbee, and Jason Levine. "You Don't Know Me" is pop and rock ballad. The track peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Kid Digital Song Sales chart.

Release

On October 16, 2012, Victorious actress Elizabeth Gillies announced that pre-orders were available for Victorious 3.0: Even More Music from the Hit TV Show, the series' second and final extended play, stating that she had co-written one of the tracks and was excited for fans to hear it.[1][2] "You Don't Know Me" was officially released as the fourth track on Victorious 3.0: Even More Music from the Hit TV Show on November 6, 2012.[3][4][5] The track was then featured in a Victorious episode titled "Tori Fixes Beck and Jade", which aired on December 1, 2012.[6][7] In the episode, Beck (Avan Jogia) thinks about asking another girl on a date but is afraid about how his ex, Jade (Gillies), will react.[6] To distract Jade, Tori (Victoria Justice) and Andre (Leon Thomas III) try to help her get a date. The episode ends with Jade performing "You Don't Know Me" and getting back together with Beck.[6][8]

Music and lyrics

Gillies provides the lead vocals for "You Don't Know Me" and is credited as a writer on the track,[2] with additional songwriting by Sam Bisbee and Jason Levine. Production was handled by Today Kid and Sy Rhys Kaye, with Today Kid also handling engineering and programming. The track was mastered by Stephen Marcussen and mixed by Miles Walker, with Eric Bisgyer serving as assistant engineer.[3]

In a November 2012 interview with J-14 magazine, Gillies explained that she wrote the song when the first season of Victorious finished filming in late 2011. She stated that she wrote it from Jade's viewpoint and later sent it to Victorious creator Dan Schneider. Schneider told her he liked the song and later surprised her by deciding to use it in the show's final season.[7] Musically, "You Don't Know Me" is a pop and rock ballad.[9][10]

Reception

Wendy Michaels for Cambio commended the track, stating that "we can't wait to hear it".[2] Geo News called the song a "hit".[11] Jack Irvin of People magazine described "You Don't Know Me" as "memorable",[9] while Helen A. Lee of the entertainment website Looper called it a "spot-on anthem".[8] In a separate review for Looper, Xandra Harbet praised "You Don’t Know Me", stating that the show had "very few" songs without Justice and that it "could have used many more of them".[10] In May 2023, American singer Charlotte Lawrence told Hunger magazine that she enjoyed the song, saying she "shamelessly listen[s] to [it] semi-frequently".[12] Commercially, "You Don't Know Me" peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Kid Digital Song Sales chart.[13]

Personnel

Credits adapted from Apple Music.[3]

Charts

Chart performance for "You Don't Know Me"
Chart (2012) Peak
position
US Kid Digital Song Sales (Billboard)[13] 16

References

  1. ^ Elizabeth Gillies [@LizGillies] (October 16, 2012). "Everyone make sure to pre-order the Victorious3.0 soundtrack! Excited to have a song I wrote on there. http://smarturl.it/victorious3.0" (Tweet). Retrieved August 9, 2025 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b c Michaels, Wendy (October 18, 2012). "Victoria Justice and Ariana Grande 'L.A. Boyz': Listen Now!". Cambio. Cambio. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved March 30, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ a b c "Victorious 3.0 - Even More Music from the Hit TV Show (feat. Victoria Justice) - EP on Apple Music". iTunes Store (US). Retrieved March 30, 2025.
  4. ^ "Victorious 3.0 - Even More Music from the Hit TV Show (feat. Victoria Justice) - EP on Spotify". Spotify (US). Retrieved March 30, 2025.
  5. ^ "Victorious 3.0: More Music From The Hit TV Show Various Artists". AllMusic. Archived from the original on February 22, 2025. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  6. ^ a b c "Elizabeth Gillies & Avan Jogia: Are Beck & Jade Back Together on 'Victorious'?". Just Jared Jr. November 30, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
  7. ^ a b Mulvaney, Nicole (November 13, 2012). "J-14 Exclusive: Liz Gillies Talks the End of 'Victorious' and New Music". J-14. Archived from the original on December 12, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ^ a b A. Lee, Helen (July 21, 2021). "Whatever Happened To Jade From Victorious?". Looper. Archived from the original on January 14, 2025. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  9. ^ a b Irvin, Jack (November 1, 2024). "Liz Gillies Says Her Music Career Faced 'Endless False Starts.' How She's 'Opened the Floodgates' (Exclusive)". People. Archived from the original on November 7, 2024. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  10. ^ a b Harbet, Xandra (August 24, 2021). "Questionable Things We Ignored In Victorious". Looper. Archived from the original on December 2, 2024. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  11. ^ "Elizabeth Gillies reveals she is ready to create 'entirely authentic' music". Geo News. November 2, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  12. ^ Saunders, Chris (May 25, 2023). "Five Minutes with Charlotte Lawrence: The 22-year-old singer bringing unfiltered intimacy to the world of pop". Hunger. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
  13. ^ a b "Elizabeth Gillies Chart History (US Kid Digital Song Sales)". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2025.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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