Flo Rida And Timbaland Are Trying To Push Your Buttons

noah | February 18, 2008 3:15 am

Will the latest song from Flo Rida’s forthcoming Mail On Sunday, the Timbaland-assisted “Elevator,” be as unstoppable as the year’s only No. 1 single, his track “Low”? It has hot-spring synths, more product placement capped by shoutouts to Nelly’s clothing line, and an attempt to remind listeners of the fact that they enjoyed the “ella, ella” call a few months ago, although back then those syllables were coming from Rihanna and not Timbaland. I’ll root for this track’s success if only because then maybe the still-kicking “Low” will finally recede from the nation’s consciousness, even though on this single–like on his last–the top-billed Flo kind of takes a back seat to his collaborators in every way save “exposed muscles” and “self-glorifying back tattoo.” [OnSmash via Sit Down Stand Up]