As a result, “Down” became the song that finally ended the Black Eyed Peas’ six-month reign of terror atop the Hot 100. Jay Sean and his collaborators definitely understood what the market wanted, and they supplied it. Plenty of great songs started off as anonymous work-for-hire pieces. The sleek emptiness of “Down” isn’t a bad thing, necessarily. In the context of “Down,” even Lil Wayne, a certifiable freak, almost becomes faceless. It’s like someone expressly set out to make the most pleasantly bland and forgettable piece of uptempo, life-affirming late-’00s pop music that anyone could imagine. If Jay Sean sounds like anyone, it’s probably Akon, a singer who managed to make his own blankness into a commercial selling point in the years just before Jay Sean recorded “Down.” The frictionless, anonymous qualities of “Down” seem intentional, maybe even studied. Listening to “Down,” you get absolutely no hint of personality from Jay Sean - no backstory, no distinct viewpoint, no sense of where he might exist in the musical continuum. “Down” is an anodyne piece of work, a song that resists context. It’s also got lyrics that couldn’t possibly mean less. It’s got bright, giddy synth-strings and hammering 808s, but it’s not quite club music. It sounds a bit like a late-’90s boy-band record, with its streamlined hooks and its pleading tone, but it’s got levels of Auto-Tune that would’ve sounded positively experimental in the late ’90s. “Down” isn’t really R&B or dance-pop, either. “Down” came out on Cash Money Records, and Lil Wayne is on it, but it’s got nothing to do with the New Orleans bounce that built the Cash Money brand or even with the bugged-out arena-rap that Wayne was making at his commercial peak. “Down,” the only real American hit from the British singer Jay Sean, is effectively a song with no genre. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. If you feel like this warning is in error, please respond with proof that you are the original creator of this content or an explanation as to why your post represents a significant contribution of your own original content over the original work and proof that you are allowed to use the original work.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. If you continue to post copy/pasted content, I will report you to steemcleaners again, flag you, and continue to expose your behavior to other users.You have repeatedly posted copy/pasted content in the recent past: (1), (2) therefore I will flag you, and expose your behavior to other users. ![]() By posting copy/pasted content, you are contributing to the destruction of the very basis of the Steemit economy. This is the very essence of what keeps the Steemit economy strong and keeps the Steem currencies from devaluation by inflation. your own work, not for copying the existing work of others. On Steemit, you get paid for creating valuable original content, i.e. Spam is discouraged by the community and may result in action from steemcleaners or other users. Repeated copy/pasting, plagiarism or tag abuse is considered spam. Moreover, posting it on Steemit with the intention to make money of it is highly unethical. content is copy/pasted off another website without a significant contribution of original content.Ĭopy/pasting content without consent of the original creator is potentially illegal. So come on and fly with me, as we make our great escape (So why don't we run away)Įven if the sky is falling down like she 'posed to beĭown like her temperature, cause to me she zero degreesĭon't it look like baby cupid sendin' arrows from aboveĪnd honestly I'm down like the economy, yeah I'll take you away, hey, turn this place into our private getaway Just let it be, come on and bring your body next to me You won't be lonely, even if the sky is falling downĮven if the sky is falling down down down ![]() ![]() So come on and fly with me, as we make our great escape So leave it behind cause we have a night to get away Put on a show, I wanna see how you lose control You oughta know, tonight is the night to let it go Baby are you down down down down down, down, downĮven if the sky is falling down, down, down
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