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Originally posted by -Lewymocha-
You've got to be kidding me  The song was safe. It was written by safe song-writers, produced into a safe genre for our time, and had a slight dub-step which gave it a slight advantage. HIAM was NOT experimental. |
We have been in the dance climate going on six years now. You would be hard pressed to find a song that sounds experimental with dance influences because for the most part dance and all it's flirtations has been done and played to the ground. That being said Hold It Against Me utilizes no less than
five different kinds of dance music. It uses trance, rave, dubstep, industrial and euro-pop influences and meshes them all into one song. You can't deny that is
far from the "norm" in terms of the typical pop-dance production. Especially when the likes of Gaga, Rihanna, Katy, Ke$ha and Beyonce are only utilizing three types of musical influences at most in one of their singles. Dr. Luke brought it with that single in terms of musical contributions that song was STACKED with numerous dance influences to the point where it was probably the most dance ready single Britney's brought in years.
The only criticism could be that 'Hold It' wasn't incredibly catchy which may have caused it to fall out of favor once the hype settled. But production wise the song is beyond reproach. Hold It Against Me was far from being musically generic and it's foolish to hear posters talking up other songs when musically in terms of variety the songs they are comparing them to are inferior to the very song they are devaluing.
