"(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me" (known as "Give It Up to Me" in its solo version) is a reggae–dancehall song written by Sean Paul for his third album The Trinity (2005). The single meant to be released after "Temperature" was "Breakout", but was switched to "Give It Up To Me" to promote the film Step Up. It is the fourth U.S. single taken from the album and the fifth UK single. It was a split single with "Never Gonna Be the Same", which was released outside the North America in June 2006 but it was finally released worldwide in October 2006. The version released as a single (the one called "(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me", in order to differ from the album version) was a collaboration with Keyshia Cole and the song was a single from the Step Up film soundtrack. Despite The Trinity being re-released just before the single release, the version with Keyshia Cole did not make the album, despite a "radio version" being added.

The single climbed as high as number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart upon its release in the U.S. in the summer of 2006. This became Sean Paul's 6th Top 10 hit and 1st Top 10 hit for Keyshia Cole.

On October 30, 2006, the song was officially released as a single in the UK.

Track listing[link]

US Track listing

CD

1. "(When You Gonna) Give It up to Me" (featuring Keyshia Cole) [radio version]
2. "(When You Gonna) Give It up to Me" [instrumental]

UK Track listing

CD

1. "(When You Gonna) Give It up to Me" (featuring Keyshia Cole) [radio version]
2. "Get Busy" [Sessions at AOL version]

Vinyl

1. "(When You Gonna) Give It up to Me" (featuring Keyshia Cole) [radio version]
2. "(When You Gonna) Give It up to Me" [instrumental]
3. "Like Glue" [video mix]
4. "Get Busy" (featuring Fatman Scoop & Crooklyn Clan) [Clap Your Hands Now remix - street club long version]

Music video[link]

The video was Directed By Little X recorded in a gym, which the director describes as "fun and exciting." Sean Paul and Keyshia Cole dance throughout the video, usually separate, and with their own dancers. Around the middle of the video, the two stars of the new dance film, Step Up, Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Drew Sidora appear. Jon Cruz and Rufino Puno of Super Cr3w, from America's Best Dance Crew (Season 2) can be seen late in the video breakdancing.

Trivia[link]

• The song was used with a Shane Sparks routine on the Second Season of So You Think You Can Dance. The routine was used for the Top 20 on the final results show.

• "Give It Up To Me" was #37 on Billboard's Year End Hot 100.

• The song was also used during the evening gown competition in the Miss Universe 2007 pageant.

• The song is Cole's biggest hit (her biggest hit as a solo artist would be Let It Go).

Charts[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• "(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me" music video on YouTube

"Give It Up to Me" is a song by Colombian Latin pop singer-songwriter Shakira, taken from her sixth studio album She Wolf (2009). The song features American rapper Lil Wayne and was produced by hip-hop producer Timbaland. It only appears on the US standard version and Brazilian deluxe edition of the album. Timbaland premiered the song on KIIS FM Radio show On Air with Ryan Seacrest, along with his own first single "Morning After Dark" stating that he produced the Shakira song to be released in the US whilst the latter will be the first single from Shock Value II. It would later go on to be released in Australia and Brazil in 2010. The song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 22, 2010 for selling 500,000+ copies.

Background and release[link]

"Give It Up to Me" which was originally recorded for his own album Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2.^[1] Rolling Stone magazine confirmed that the song initially featured Timbaland rapping but his verse was replaced with Flo Rida and then later Lil Wayne. President of Epic Records Amanda Ghost, said of the recording that "everyone’s breath was taken away when Lil Wayne said he wanted to jump on the record".^[2] The decision for Shakira to record the song is responsible for the delay of the album's release in the US.^[2]

It was then announced on her official website that it would be released as next American single in place of the song "Did It Again" which is being serviced to international markets. Shakira appeared on the David Letterman Show on November 10, 2009 to perform the single for the first time and later in the same week on Good Morning America. The song was also performed at the 2009 American Music Awards and Lopez Tonight.^[3] Shakira had also performed the song on the So You Think You Can Dance live results show November 25, 2009. Give It Up To Me had a large-scale performance on February 18, 2010 at the NBA 2010 All Star Game.

Critical reception[link]

Kelsey Paine from Billboard Magazine gave a favorable review saying: "The second single from Shakira's upcoming "She Wolf" finds the Latin star favoring hip-hop beats over her signature brand of international pop. On "Give It Up to Me," the ever-present Lil Wayne knocks out another witty guest verse over Timbaland's Middle Eastern-tinged production. Shakira, meanwhile, relays an alluring, yet oddly submissive message: "You can have it all/Anything you want you can make it yours," she sings over hand claps and pounding bass. "Put me in a cage and lock me away/And I'll play the games that you want me to play." The singer's undulating vocals, quirky yet sensual, hint to her past hits but feel somewhat out of step with Wayne's wordplay and Timbaland's production. While "Give It Up to Me" is sexy and danceable, Shakira's flirtation with a different genre ultimately obscures her own unique style.^[4]

Music video[link]

People Magazine gave an exclusive first look of the video on November 13, 2009, and the full video had its premiere on November 16, 2009, on Shakira's official Facebook page.^[5] The video was directed by Sophie Muller.^[6] According to YouTube, when Shakira premiered the video it drew 94,000 viewers.^[7]

The music video has compared to Beyoncé Single Ladies video. James Montgomery from MTV gave a positive review about the video and said that "The hips don't lie! Shakira's gone "Single Ladies" in her brand-new "Give It Up to Me" video (from her recent She Wolf LP), which finds everyone's favorite practitioner of midsection manipulation showing more than a few Beyoncéisms. From the dangly earrings and high-cut leotard to an aerodynamic 'do (which has since been replaced by a mane of dreadlocks) and a spate of dance moves that would make even the stoutest of chiropractors cringe, "Give It Up To Me" takes those elements, throws them into a blender, spins them around the globe and sees them brought home by Lil Wayne. There's the fact that she opens the video dressed like Jennifer Lopez from her days as a Fly Girl ... the inexplicable hieroglyphics on her left arm ... the part where she and her backup dancers turn into human caterpillars ... the part where she transforms into a super-shiny Shiva floating above Hong Kong. Give It Up — like much of Shakira's She Wolf album — is her take on straightforward club pop, with a straightforward video to match ... but, given that Shakira's involved, it's anything but straightforward, which, of course, means I love it. Shakira really is a true original — as she says, the hips don't lie."^[8]

Track listing[link]

Standard digital download
US: November 10, 2009, AUS: January 22, 2010

1. "Give It Up to Me" featuring Lil Wayne - 3:03

Australia digital download bundle EP
January 29, 2010^[9] / European CD single

1. "Give It Up to Me" featuring Lil Wayne - 3:03
2. "Did It Again" featuring Kid Cudi (Benassi Remix) - 5:58
3. "Did It Again" featuring Kid Cudi (Superchumbo Remix) - 7:41

Official remix download
US & AUS: February, 2010 ^[10]

1. "Give It Up to Me" remix featuring [B.O.B. Music] - 3:03

Chart performance[link]

The song first debuted on the US Pop Songs chart at 29 before making its debut on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 58 and the Canadian Hot 100 at 53. It has peaked at number 29 in the U.S. as of December 12, 2009.

Radio date and release history[link]

References[link]

Aqualung is the fourth studio album by the rock band Jethro Tull. Released in 1971, Aqualung, despite the band's disapproval, is regarded as a concept album featuring a central theme of "the distinction between religion and God".^[1] The album's "dour musings on faith and religion" have marked it as "one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners".^[2] Aqualung's success marked a turning point in the band's career, with them going on to become a major radio and touring act.

Recorded in Island Records' studio in London, it was their first album with John Evan as a full-time member, their first with new bassist Jeffrey Hammond and last album featuring Clive Bunker on drums. The album is something of a departure from the band's previous works, featuring more acoustic material than previous releases; and—inspired by photographs of homeless people on the Thames Embankment taken by singer Ian Anderson's wife Jennie—contains a number of recurring themes, addressing religion along with Anderson's own personal experiences.

Aqualung has sold over 7 million units worldwide according to Anderson, and is thus Jethro Tull's best selling album. The album was generally well-received critically, and has been included on several music magazine "best of" lists. The album spawned one single, "Hymn 43", and has been cited as an inspiration by bands such as Iron Maiden.

Production[link]

After an American tour in 1970, bass player Glenn Cornick was fired from the band,^[3] and was replaced with Jeffrey Hammond, an old friend of Ian Anderson's.^[4] Aqualung would be the first recording Hammond would do with the band. It would also mark the first time John Evan had recorded a full album with the band, as his only prior involvement was to overdub several keyboard parts on the previous album, Benefit. The album was one of the first to be recorded at the newly opened studios of Island Records in Basing Street, London. Led Zeppelin were recording their untitled fourth album at the same time. In an interview on the 25^th anniversary edition of the album, Tull's bandleader Ian Anderson said that trying to record in their studio was very difficult, because of its "horrible, cold, echoey" feel.^[5] There were two recording studios at the location; Led Zeppelin worked in the smaller studio while Tull got the larger,^[6] which was the main body of a converted church. The orchestrals were arranged by David Palmer, who had worked with the band since This Was, and would later join as a keyboard player. Aqualung would be the last Jethro Tull album to include Clive Bunker as a band member, as he retired shortly after recording to start a family.^[5]

Musical style[link]

The songs on the album cover a variety of musical genres, with elements of folk, blues, psychedelia and hard rock.^[7] The "riff-heavy" nature of tracks such as "Locomotive Breath", "Hymn 43" and "Wind Up" is regarded as a factor in the band's increased success after the release of the album, with Jethro Tull becoming "a major arena act" and a "fixture on FM radio".^[2] In a stylistic departure from Jethro Tull's earlier albums, many of Aqualung's songs are primarily acoustic. "Cheap Day Return", "Wond'ring Aloud" and "Slipstream" are short, completely acoustic "bridges," and "Mother Goose" is also mostly acoustic. Anderson claims his main inspirations for writing the album were Roy Harper and Bert Jansch.^[5]

Themes[link]

Aqualung has widely been regarded as a concept album, featuring a central theme of "the distinction between religion and God".^[1] The album's "dour musings on faith and religion" have marked it as "one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners".^[2] Academic discussions of the nature of concept albums have frequently listed Aqualung amongst their number.^[8][9][10]

The initial idea for the album was sparked by some photographs that Anderson's wife Jennie took of homeless people on the Thames Embankment. The appearance of one man in particular caught the interest of the couple, who together wrote the title song "Aqualung".^[11] The first side of the LP, titled Aqualung, contains several character sketches, including the eponymous character of the title track, and the schoolgirl prostitute Cross-Eyed Mary, as well as two autobiographical tracks; including "Cheap Day Return," written by Ian Anderson after a visit to his critically ill father.^[12] The second side, titled My God, contains three tracks—"My God," "Hymn 43" and "Wind-Up"—that address religion in an introspective, and sometimes irreverent, manner. However, despite the names given to the album's two sides and their related subject matter, Anderson has consistently maintained that Aqualung is not a "concept album". A 2005 interview included on Aqualung Live gives Anderson's thoughts on the matter:

I always said at the time that this is not a concept album; this is just an album of varied songs of varied instrumentation and intensity in which three or four are the kind of keynote pieces for the album but it doesn't make it a concept album. In my mind when it came to writing the next album, Thick as a Brick, was done very much in the sense of: 'Whuh, if they thought Aqualung was a concept album, Oh! Okay, we'll show you a concept album.' And it was done as a kind of spoof, a send-up, of the concept album genre. ... But Aqualung itself, in my mind was never a concept album. Just a bunch of songs.^[13]

Drummer Clive Bunker believes that the record's perception as a concept album is a case of "Chinese whispers", explaining "you play the record to a couple of Americans, tell them that there's a lyrical theme loosely linking a few songs, and then notice the figure of the Aqualung character on the cover, and suddenly the word is out that Jethro Tull have done a concept album".^[5]

The thematic elements Jethro Tull explored on the album—those of the effects of urbanisation on nature, and of the effects of social constructs such as religion on society—would be developed further on most of the band's subsequent releases.^[14] Ian Anderson's frustration over the album's labelling as a concept album directly led to the creation of Thick as a Brick, intended to be a deliberately "over the top" concept album in response.^[15]

Other songs[link]

"Lick Your Fingers Clean" was recorded for Aqualung but did not make the final cut. The song was drastically re-worked as "Two Fingers" for Tull's 1974 album, War Child. "Lick Your Fingers Clean" was eventually released in 1988 on the 20 Years of Jethro Tull collection. It was then released as a bonus track on the 1996 reissue of Aqualung.

Another song, "Wond'ring Again" was recorded in early sessions in 1970 and considered for release on the album before Anderson decided to drop it from the final tracklisting. It was subsequently released on the compilation album, Living in the Past, in 1972. However, elements of the song—essentially its coda—were included on Aqualung as "Wond'ring Aloud." Glenn Cornick played bass on the song and says it is his favorite song he recorded with the band.^[5] Cornick also played bass on early studio recordings of "My God" and "a couple of other songs", though he did not say which they were.^[5]

Album cover[link]

The album's original cover art by Burton Silverman features a watercolour portrait of a long haired, bearded man in shabby clothes. The idea for the cover came from a photograph Anderson's wife took of a homeless man on Thames Embankment, and Anderson later felt it would have been better to have used the photograph rather than commission the painting.^[11] Ian Anderson recalls posing for a photograph for the painting, though Silverman claims it was a self-portrait. The artwork was commissioned and purchased by Chrysalis Records head Terry Ellis. Artist Silverman claims the art was only licensed for use as an album cover, and not for merchandising; and approached the band seeking remuneration for its further use. Silverman and Anderson have different accounts of level of enmity involved in this. The original artwork for both the front and back covers are now privately owned by an unknown family, apparently having been stolen from a London hotel room.^[5]

Release[link]

In April 1971, Aqualung peaked at number 4 on the UK Album Chart; when the CD version was released in 1996, it reached number 52.^[16] It peaked at #7 on the Billboard Music Charts' North American pop albums chart; the single "Hymn 43" hit #91 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[17] The album would go on to sell over seven million copies, and is the band's best-selling album.^[18] Aqualung was one of only two Jethro Tull albums released in quadraphonic sound, the other being War Child. The quadraphonic version of "Wind Up", which is in a slightly higher key, is included on the later CD reissue of the album as "Wind Up (quad version)".^[18]

The album's only single was "Hymn 43", which was released on 14 August 1971. It reached number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, spending two weeks in the chart.^[17] The song was the first single released by the band in the United States.^[18] It was later included in the video game Rock Band 2 as downloadable content;^[19] which also featured the album's title track.^[20]

The album was re-released in a fortieth anniversary edition on 31 October 2011. The release contains a new stereo and 5.1 surround remix of the album by Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, and comes in two different editions—a "collector's edition" containing the album on LP and two CDs, as well as DVD and Blu-ray discs and a hardback book; and a "special edition" containing the two CDs and an abridged version of the book.^[21]

Reception[link]

On its release, Aqualung was met with favourable reviews. Rolling Stone lauded its "fine musicianship", calling it "serious and intelligent", although feeling that the album's seriousness "undermined" its quality.^[1] Sounds said that its "taste and variety" made it the band's "finest" work.^[22] Robert Christgau, however, was more critical of the album, rating it a C+, and calling Anderson's lyrics "inchoate" and "pretentious".^[23]

Legacy[link]

Allmusic give the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, calling it "a bold statement" and "extremely profound".^[2] Steve Harris, the bass player for the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, has called Aqualung "a classic album", lauding its "fantastic playing, fantastic songs, attitude [and] vibe". Iron Maiden would go on to cover "Cross-Eyed Mary" as the B-side of their 1983 single "The Trooper".^[5]

Aqualung has also been appraised highly in retrospective listings—Rolling Stone included it on their list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", at number 337,^[24] whilst UK magazine Q listed it a number 7 in their "40 Cosmic Rock Albums" countdown.^[25][26] Martin Barre's solo on the album's title track was included in Guitarist magazine's list of "The 20 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time" at number 20.^[27]

Track listing[link]

All songs written and composed by Ian Anderson, except where noted. 

Note that original North American Reprise Records pressings of Aqualung contained a slightly edited version of the title song, with its first three seconds (i.e., the first repetition of the song's signature riff) removed. These pressings correspondingly list the song's length at 6:31.

1996 CD release[link]

The 1996 and 1999 remastered CDs added six bonus tracks and extensive liner notes:

2011 40th Anniversary Release[link]

The 2011 remixed and remastered version by Steven Wilson added the following tracks to the original album track listing:

Personnel[link]

References[link]

Bibliography

• Covach, John; Spicer, Mark (2010). Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-03400-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=eg0dpgvfVqEC&pg=PA215. 
• DeRogatis, Jim (2003). Turn on your mind: four decades of great psychedelic rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-0-634-05548-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=U7cQmRsLgN8C&pg=PA185. 
• Letts, Marianne Tatom (2010). Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album: How to Disappear Completely. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22272-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=3HSuhm6DRGgC&pg=PA13. 
• Nollen, Scott Allen (2001). Jethro Tull: a history of the band, 1968-2001. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1101-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=AsvpFwKVCN4C&pg=PA67&dq=%22Cheap+Day+Return%22+is+an+autobiographical+song&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22Cheap%20Day%20Return%22%20is%20an%20autobiographical%20song&f=false. 

External links[link]

• Album online on Radio3Net a radio channel of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company
• Aqualung (1971) at Allmusic

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