"Hold It Don't Drop It" is a song by American recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez from her sixth studio album, Brave (2007). Written by Lopez, Kevin Risto, Waynne Nugent, Allen Phillip Lees, Tawanna Dabney, Janet Sewell, and Cynthia Lissette and produced by Midi Mafia, the song is built around a sample of Tavares' 1975 hit "It Only Takes a Minute", penned by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter.

Released as the album's second and final single, the track received limited release in fall 2007. It received positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the track for being "sassy, danceable" and was deemed as her best single in years. A music video was released in 2008, while Lopez was pregnant.

Background and release[link]

"Hold It Don't Drop It" was originally released in September 2007 in Europe solely as a club single. The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart around the same time "Do It Well" was released. It was officially released as the second single from Brave in Germany on January 11, 2008 and in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2008.^[1][2] The single was never given an official release in the United States. Lopez performed the song while on tour as part of her set and also performed it along with "Do It Well", while singing live on Good Morning America. ^[3]

Composition[link]

"Hold It Don't Drop It" was written by Kevin Risto, Waynne Nugent, Jennifer Lopez, Allen Phillip Lees, Tawanna Dabney, Janet Sewell, Cynthia Lissette and it samples the bassline from Tavares' 1975 hit "It Only Takes a Minute."^[4][5] It was recorded at the The Record Plant studio in Los Angeles, California.^[4] It is a pop song with elements of disco, funk and R&B.^[6][7][8]

Critical reception[link]

"Hold It Don't Drop It" received mainly positive reviews by music critics. Slant Magazine named "Hold It Don't Drop It" the thirty-fifth best song of 2007, praising "a surprisingly agile vocal performance from La Lopez, making it the singer's best single in years".^[9] Nick Levine of Digital Spy awarded the song four out of five stars, calling it "as bold, brash and sassy as the Latina diva herself."^[7] Eric Henderson from Slant Magazine wrote that "the song thrashes your body mercilessly the first time, tickles your ears the second time, and compels you to track down that old "It Only Takes a Minute" vinyl by the third or fourth."^[10] Mike Joseph from PopMatters commented that the "intriguingly titled 'Hold It Don’t Drop It' lifts sizable chunks from the Tavares disco classic 'It Only Takes a Minute'."^[11]

Chart performance[link]

Despite positive reviews, due to lack of promotion because of her pregnancy, the song only peaked at number seventy-two on the UK Singles Chart on downloads alone, while the song's physical release was canceled.^[12] It nevertheless managed to chart at number thirty-three in Hungary.^[13]

Music video[link]

The video was shot on November 16, 2007 and directed by Melina Matsoukas. It was premiered December 4, 2007 on MTV Europe and MTV Turkey. Lopez was pregnant when the video was filmed.

In the video, Lopez starts off by dancing in a spotlight wearing a hat, flipping between close-ups of her face and of her sitting on top of a giant silver disco ball. Lopez is then standing with a microphone stand in a white room on podiums with three male back-up dancers in suits lined behind her. When the chorus lines kick in, the lights above and below the soundstage flash and when Lopez is singing, she occasionally picks up the mic stand to sing into it and waves it above her head. There are also scenes of her singing in the spotlight into a mic hanging down and of Lopez sitting on a white chair facing away from camera.

Track listings[link]

Charts[link]

Chart precession and succession[link]

References[link]

Look up hold in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Hold may refer to:

• Hold (banking/commerce), a now common practice by bankers and retailers (esp. gas stations)
• Hold (ship), interior cargo space
• Hold (aviation), a place for an aircraft to loop around near its destination
• Legal hold, a legal ruling or official declaration
• Hold (baseball), a statistic that may be awarded to a relief pitcher
• Hold (telephone), a condition where the call is not terminated, but no speech is taking place
• Grappling hold, a specific grip applied to an opponent in wrestling or martial arts
• Secret hold, a parliamentary procedure
• Hold (title), an ancient Anglo-Danish and Norwegian title
• Stronghold, a castle or other fortified place
• The cards that are kept in a hand of poker, not those discarded and replaced
• Holds of Pern, a city or community in the Dragonriders of Pern science-fiction series
• Marianne Hold (1933–1994), German actress
• "Hold", a song by Axium from Blindsided
• Handhold (dance)

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Hold"
• All pages with titles containing "Hold"
• Holder (disambiguation)
• Holding (disambiguation)

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Look up don't in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Don't or do not may refer to:

• "Don't" (Elvis Presley song)
• "Don't!", a song by Shania Twain
• "Don't" (Billy Currington song), a song from the album Little Bit of Everything
• "Don't", a song by M2M from the album The Big Room
• Don't (1925 film), a 1925 silent film
• Don't (1974 film), a 1974 short film
• Don't, a fake trailer from the 2007 film Grindhouse
• DONT, a bridge bidding convention

See also[link]

• Contraction (grammar)

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Don or DON may refer to

People[link]

• Don (given name), a short form of the masculine given name Donald in English, also a masculine given name in Irish
• Don (honorific), a Spanish, Portuguese,Italian, and Filipino title, given as a mark of respect
• Don, a crime boss
• University don, in British universities, traditionally, a head, fellow or tutor of a college
• A resident assistant at universities in Canada and the USA

Chemistry[link]

• DON, 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-nitroamphetamine, in pharmacology, the psychedelic phenethylamine
• DON, De-Oxy-Nivalenol = Vomitoxin, in microbiology, a toxin produced by several Fusarium and Aspergillus strains
• DON, 6-Diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine
• DON, Nitrogen

Geography[link]

• Don, Nord, a commune of the Nord département in northern France
• Don, Trentino, a comune in Trentino, Italy
• Don, Benin, a town in Benin
• Don, Tasmania
• Don Republic, a temporary state in 1918-19
• Don River (disambiguation), several rivers named "Don River", River Don", or simply "Don"

Entertainment[link]

• Don (1978 film), a blockbuster Hindi film starring Amitabh Bachchan
  • Don (character), the titular character of the 1978 film and its 2006 remake
  • Don (2006 Hindi film), a 2006 Bollywood remake of the 1978 film, starring Shahrukh Khan
  • Don 2, the sequel to the 2006 film
  • Don (2012 film), upcoming Bangladeshi film remake of the 1978 film
• Don (2007 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna and Anushka
• Don (2006 Dutch film), a 2006 Dutch film
• Don, the name of a pteranodon on the PBS Kids series Dinosaur Train
• Battle Stadium D.O.N, a video game

Other uses[link]

• Tropical Storm Don (2011)
• Director of nursing (long term care facility)
• Director of nursing (other uses)
• Dôn, a mother goddess in Welsh mythology
• Russian Don, a horse breed
• Orlets-1, a reconnaissance satellite
• DoN, the Department of the Navy, a part of the United States Department of Defense
• DON, Dysbaric osteonecrosis
• Donburi, an abbreviation for this Japanese rice bowl dish
• Don-2N radar, Russian anti-ballistic missile radar

See also[link]

• Dom (disambiguation)
• Dons (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Don"

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Look up drop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Drop may refer to:

General use[link]

• Drop (liquid) or droplet, a small volume of liquid
  • Eye drops, saline (sometimes mydriatic) drops used as medication for the eyes
• Drop (volume), a unit of measure of volume
• Falling (physics), or allowing an object to fall
• Also, in a franchise, dropping a character means that a certain character is no longer seen nor mentioned.

Sports[link]

• Drop (boxing), a type of punch used in boxing
• Drop off, a mountain biking term
• Drop noseband, a type of noseband used first on horses at the Spanish Riding School
• Bat drop, a number (the weight in ounces minus the length in inches) used in some leagues to regulate baseball bats

Computers and technology[link]

• Drop (telecommunication), several meanings
• DROP (SQL), a command in SQL queries to remove an existing database, table, index, or view

Types of confectionery[link]

• Lemon drop, a sugary, lemon-flavored confectionery
• London drops, sugar-coated licorice drops sold in some Nordic countries
• Cough drop, or throat lozenge, a medicated confectionery
• Drop, the Dutch name for sweet or salty liquorice

Music[link]

• Needle drop (DJing), a hip-hop DJ term
• Drop (music), a section in music where the music will crescendo to a climax, pause briefly, then resume
• Drop (Bride album), 1995 work
• Drop (The Shamen album), 1987 album by The Shamen
• "Drop" (song), a track by The Pharcyde from their album Labcabincalifornia
• "Drop" (Rich Boy song), a song by Rich Boy from his second album, Buried Alive
• "Drop" (Ying Yang Twins song), a song by Ying Yang Twins
• "Drop" (Blue October song), a song by Blue October
• D.R.O.P., an album and a song by ZELDA
• Drop, a slang term, used as a verb, to refer to an album or single's release (music)
• DROPS, a JPOP voice actor group consisting of Mariko Kouda, Tomoko Kaneda, Akemi Kanda, Ai Nonaka, and Ryōko Shiraishi

Other uses[link]

• Drop (breakdance move), a breakdance move
• Dead drop, a term used in espionage to exchange messages covertly between spies
• Pigeon drop, a confidence trick modeled on the dead drop
• Drop, Masovian Voivodeship, district in east-central Poland
• Prince Rupert's Drop, curiosity made out of molten glass
• Drops (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation character), a character in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• DROPS, or Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System, logistic vehicles used by the British Army
• Drop in clothing, the difference between chest size and trouser waist size measured in inch.^[1]
• Hershey's Drops, a chocolate bar

See also[link]

• Dropout (disambiguation)

References[link]

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