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Single by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain | |||||||||||
from the album Mail on Sunday and Step Up 2: The Streets | |||||||||||
Released | September 16, 2007 | ||||||||||
Format | Digital download, CD single | ||||||||||
Recorded | 2007 | ||||||||||
Genre | Southern hip hop, pop rap | ||||||||||
Length | 3:50 | ||||||||||
Label | Atlantic | ||||||||||
Writer(s) | Tramar Dillard, Faheem Najm | ||||||||||
Producer | DJ Montay | ||||||||||
Certification | 6x Platinum (RIAA) 2x Platinum (RIANZ) 3x Platinum (CRIA) 3x Platinum (ARIA) |
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"Low" is the debut single by American rapper Flo Rida, featured on his debut album Mail On Sunday and also featured on the soundtrack to the 2008 film Step Up 2: The Streets. The song features T-Pain and was co-written with T-Pain. There is also a remix in which the hook is sung by Flo Rida rather than T-Pain. An official remix was made which features rapper Pitbull and T-Pain.
The now-iconic single was a hit worldwide and the longest running number-one single of 2008. With five million paid digital downloads, it was certified six-times platinum by the RIAA, and was the most downloaded single of 2000s decade, measured by paid digital downloads.[1] The song was named 3rd on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.[2] "Low" spent ten consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, the longest-running number-one single of 2008.
It was also performed live with the band Simple Plan at the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards.[3]
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The song debuted at number 91 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 on November 6, 2007, and reached number one for the week of December 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008.[4] The song generated the second greatest one-week digital sales in the history of Billboard Magazine's Digital Songs chart (behind Flo Rida's "Right Round"), with 467,000 digital copies in one week. "Low" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks and remained in the top ten of the chart for 23 weeks,[5] making it both T-Pain and Flo Rida's most successful single to date.
The song was dethroned on the Hot 100 by Usher's "Love in This Club" featuring Young Jeezy. As the first number one on the Hot 100 of 2008, "Low" held the top position longer than any song did in 2008 (see List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2008 (U.S.)), and is the longest running Hot 100 number one since Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable."[6] The song is also the longest-running number one in the history of the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, topping the chart for 13 weeks, and also on the now-defunct Pop 100 chart, where it ruled for 12 weeks.[6] "Low" was the best-selling digitally-downloaded song of all time, with U.S. digital sales of over 5,000,000.[7] (It has since been surpassed by The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling.")[8] The song stayed on the Hot 100 for 39 weeks, before dropping out in June 2008.[9] Digital sales, as of August 2011, now stand at over 6,000,000.[10]
The physical release of the single occurred in the UK week beginning 24 March 2008.[11] On July 20, 2008, the song moved up to No. 19 on the UK Singles Chart, several months after its official release. Although it failed to reach number one in the UK, it amassed 53 weeks inside the UK Top 75 (making it the joint 20th longest runner of all time), and 75 weeks inside the Top 100.[12] As of January 2012, the song had sold 613,434 copies in the UK.[13]
The song was ranked at #23 on Billboard's All Time Hot 100 for the 50th anniversary of the chart.[14] The song was also was ranked the number-one song for 2008 in Billboard's ranking of the Top Hot 100 Hits of 2008. On December 28, 2008, it was listed at No. 11 for the UK Singles Chart year-end countdown and was named highest-selling single in Australia in 2008.
Several of T-Pain's motifs are present in this song, including autotune, call and answer during the chorus, and use of electronic drums. Flo Rida has sexually charged (but not explicit) lyrics, for example he refers to a girl's buttocks as "birthday cakes" which "stole the show". T-Pain also relies heavily on synthesizer. The music revolves around one chord, E♭ minor. A Harmonic minor melody is played over the E♭ minor, and at different times different instrumentation cycles, i.e. sometimes only the synthesizer plays, sometimes only the bass, sometimes only the vocals. Flo Rida uses a style that is common in 1990s hip-hop party music.
The song makes references to a "Shawty" in a club who is wearing Apple Bottom jeans and boots with fur. "Shawty" also wears baggy sweat pants and Reeboks with the straps. The lyrics repeatedly suggest that Shawty is extremely attractive and possesses great skill in dancing provocatively. In particular, the song describes one of her more memorable dance sequences as giving her buttocks (colloquially referred to as a booty) a smack prior to "getting low".
The video of "Low" was directed by Bernard Gourley and contains certain clips from Step Up 2 The Streets. It also contains cameos from Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Cool & Dre, Briana Evigan, & Torch & Gunplay of Triple C's. Also, T-Pain and Flo Rida are in a nightclub in a few scenes. The music video reached the #1 spot on 106 & Park for 5 days and 22 days on TRL. The music video was also nominated at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video and Best Hip-Hop Video, but lost to Chris Brown's "With You" (Best Male Video) and Lil Wayne's Lollipop (Best Hip-Hop Video) videos.
Albuquerque, New Mexico based Crunkcore group Brokencyde released a cover of this song on "THA $C3N3 MiXTaPe" in 2008. Travis Barker, drummer from Blink 182 added a drum version cover of the song.
There is a remix by Los Bk-Clan (Sto Domingo), Daryl & DJ Q-Bah (Netherlands). There is also a second remix featuring American singer Francisco.
In the United States, "Low" has been certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA.[15] The song was certified 2x Platinum in New Zealand on September 28, 2008, selling over 30,000 copies.[16] In Canada, it was certified 3x Platinum in digital downloads and 4x Platinum in Ringtones[17][18]
Fabian Marasciullo, mix engineer[19]
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X-Dream are Marcus Christopher Maichel (born May 1968) and Jan Müller (born February 1970); they are also known as Rough and Rush. They are some of the cult hit producers of psychedelic trance music and hail from Hamburg, Germany.
The latest X-Dream album, We Interface, includes vocals from American singer Ariel Electron.
Muller was educated as a sound engineer. Maichel was a musician familiar with techno and reggae, and was already making electronic music in 1986. In 1989 the pair first met when Marcus was having problems with his PC and someone sent Jan to help fix it. That same year they teamed up to work on a session together. Their first work concentrated on a sound similar to techno with some hip hop elements which got some material released on Tunnel Records.
During the early 1990s they were first introduced to the trance scene in Hamburg and decided to switch their music to this genre. From 1993 they began releasing several singles on the Hamburg label Tunnel Records, as X-Dream and under many aliases, such as The Pollinator. Two albums followed on Tunnel Records, Trip To Trancesylvania and We Created Our Own Happiness, which were much closer to the original formula of psychedelic trance, although featuring the unmistakable "trippy" early X-Dream sound.
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As a child Irma was performing at masses too. At age 15, she went to a high school in Paris, France, to improve her school education.
In 2008, Irma entered ESCP Europe (Top French Business School) and graduated in the Master in Management in 2012.
By 2007, she had posted her first videos on YouTube. Those included her own compositions, including "Letter to the Lord" and a piano piece "Somehow", as well as cover versions of songs including "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5, "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat and "New Soul" by Yael Naim.
She released several home-made videos with acoustic covers on YouTube in collaboration with French and international musicians, including Tété ("Hey Ya!"), Matthieu Chédid ("Rolling in the Deep"), Gad Elmaleh ("Isn't She Lovely?"), Tom Dice ("Talkin' 'bout a Revolution") from Belgium and Patrice ("The Times They Are a-Changin'") from Germany. Together with will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas she performed a cover version of "I Want You Back".
IRMA is a 1969 experimental opera by artist Tom Phillips.
The score involved 93 random phrases taken from the 1892 novel A Human Document by W.H. Mallock. They were then divided up into sound suggestions, a libretto and staging directions.
The score was completed on the day that Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon in 1969. It was then published in the French avant garde poetry magazine O.U. The opera itself had its premier at the Bordeaux Festival in 1970. It has been performed sporadically since its premier, including the University of Newcastle in 1972, York University in 1973 and in London in 1983.
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Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
Living a day at a time, a day at a time
Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
I light a thick spliff get my wit in pitch
Time goes by so fast I lose hold of myself / Need
something to cool me down,
or my motor will melt / Totally set on not getting old
yet / but time will
catch up with you like an old debt / Still... hurry
spells worry with a W,
you heard me? It´s too early, my world be looking all
blurry / Listen, wait
a minute / I got a job that I aim to finish / ain´t got
time for no lazy
business / I´m losing crazy minutes the way I sleep all
day and shit /
Professional time waster / sitting here wondering why
the earth keep
worshipping that almighty paper / Quick, fast, world on
the move / Think of
yourself, no room for the merciful / Gotta be versatile
/ Being everywhere,
doing everything, at the same time / Don´t waste time
on that lazy state of
mind now / All cats ain´t got nine lives now / It´s now
or never so better
just get it together / You ain´t gone be living forever
/ I know this / The
clock stay ticking and I can´t control this / Can´t be
living at a low risk
/ so I might as well roll this / Oh yes / reminisce on
some old shit / my
flow is reaching your sofas / all of my mental
soldiers.
Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
Living a day at a time, a day at a time
Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
I light a thick spliff get my wit in pitch
I be telling you listen I don´t lie
Time always be keeping a close eye
You don´t believe me then you take a nosedive
Slow down, don´t you know now
Chasing euros or dollars or then you chase pounds
Hurry, hurry you keep up the pace now
You ain´t really with it I see it in your face now
Slow down, don´t you know now
Now all sorts of folks die / Think I´m lying then ask
the Most High / Open
your mind / c´mon wake up open your eyes / Realize you
taking a nosedive / I
won´t resign, won´t recline / Kinda the same as time
won´t rewind / But I´m
a relax / ´cos if you thinking like that then your
stress will multiply / I
suppose I´m saying I ain´t scared to die / ´cos the
next place might be the
best place, still I don´t waste time estimating / So
get your bets placed in
/ It´s the game of life, for life / all day, all night
/ Remain your fight
and you be set for escalating / Guys defecating by
paper chasing, I ain´t
got time for that / I need a real woman I ain´t got
time to mack / Spending
half of my time in a cold climate / Time´s back / I was
looking for time but
now I know where time´s at / Where´s that? / It´s right
here between
yesterday and tomorrow / you follow? / Time will go by
whether you dating a
model / or you got problems and everyday you escape
with the bottle / I
don´t know why, though / I just glide slow through my
life / time for
happiness, time for sorrow / Living a day at a time...
Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
Living a day at a time, a day at a time
Living a day at a time be the rhythm that fit
That way I´m always quick to predict a glitch
Building a house brick by brick and bit by bit
I light a thick spliff get my wit in pitch
Now whether you spitting them dope rhymes.
Or working the coalmine
Or sniffing them coke lines
Or sleeping the whole time
Breeding or killing
Walking the narrow road or sinning
Losing or winning