Give It 2 Me is Madonna's follow up single from her chart topper 4 Minutes, featuring (and produced by) Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. 4 Minutes spent four weeks at the top of the UK charts. It was her 13th No 1 some 24 years after her first hit.
Give It 2 Me featuring Pharrell is definitely the best track on her new album, Hard Candy, which has an overall hip hop/urban pop feel while still retaining that dance-pop sound we have came accustomed to when we hear anything new by Madonna.
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her track that is ripping the dance floors apart right now is the new one from Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris.
Dance Wiv Me mixes the usual, but unique rap style of Dizzee Rascal with the dance sound that Calvin Harris produces and just a sprinkle of R'n'B from Chrome on the hook to finish it off.
You've got to hand it to the music industry – they know exactly when to release tracks. When I first heard this one I knew straight away that it had one for those 'sun shining through your car window' happy as Larry feels to it.
However, as we are in Scotland swap that for 'dark clouds and pouring rain steaming up the window' – but you'll still smiling cause this track is so good.
One for the girls this week is from the winner of the sixth season of American Idol, it's Jordin Sparks (pictured right), with her new track No Air.
After teaming up with Chris Brown on this one we start to see Jordin reach out to the UK audience and enter the charts, currently sitting at No 10, up 12 places from last week, she will finally see some UK success after her last track Tattoo only got to No 50.
One for the boys is from G-Unit and comes from their forthcoming album Terminate On Sight.
Due for release on July 1, Rider Pt. 2, which is the second single off the album, will, like anything G-Unit produce, have a lot of controversy around it – but then this is an album that really steps things up with diss after diss to nearly every other rapper out there.
• Scott Granger, Monday and twice monthly on Saturdays, Shanghai @ Le Monde, George Street, 0131-270 3900 The full article contains 402 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
