Idolator
Because the song at No. 33 moves to the beat of a... well, you know.
Really, this spot could have gone to either Eve's "Tambourine" or to Beyonce's late-breaking B'Day single "Get Me Bodied," which is to say that, for all of Eve's curled-lip sass or B's hair-pulling ecstasy, the spot really belongs to the semi-ubiquitous Swizz Beatz, responsible for the best of the recent wave of uptempo urban dance records not produced by the Timbahands team or one of their entranced proteges/biters, polyrhythmic late-decade playground jams played by the self-proclaimed one-man-band like a one-man-pep-rally: manic layered percussion, disco whistles, rung alarms, and shouted/sampled hooks, no brass section necessary. (In the end we picked "Tambourine" because it's your typical snapping 21st-century Swizz track but, like, moreso, buzzier and stuffed with little drum hooks and snare fills.) "You gotta shake your ass," but compared to the Euro-steppers ease of "The Way I Are" and its ilk, you gotta work twice as hard here to keep that ass from tripping itself up.
Eve - "Tambourine" [YouTube]
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I would've gone with B...
This and "Get Me Bodied" are both dope songs (although I'd go with "It's Me Bitches" or "My Drink N My 2 Step" if I had to pick just one Swizz track this year). Love the nod to Go-Go with the Chuck Brown sample on "Tambourine," though.
I ADORE the costuming by American Apparel. Truly. This track is fantastic -- though, to be fair, so is the totally earwormy "Get Me Bodied."
Lovin' "My Drink N My 2 Step" right now. It has that fascinating appeal/disgust thing going because it's catchy as hell but those guys at the club 2-stepping on the side need to learn a few more steps and put their drink down.
It's interesting to see how the hip-hop world is really taking to fetish wear lately.
did this song totally underperform commercially? i thought it was going to be huge and i think i heard it about four times. good choice, though!
It's a fantastic track, though I could have done without the bellowing MC. Such is the legacy of crunk. And Fatman Scoop.
What Chuck Brown song is the sample taken from? A co-worker played it for me last week on an audio-cassette and I've been trying to find it online ever since.
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