Review by heidiB for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne) Rating:
okay, musically not the most talented, duet not the most original, words repetitive and don’t jive in the duet – but it’s so freakin fun to dance to. Some music you just can’t critique along highbrow standards. It is what it is – and it’s kinda sexy.
Review by Javier Lopez for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne) Rating:
Everything shouldn’t be negative so I must say that Shakira has a good voice and re-invents herself with every album that she records but I think that with her latest production “She wolf”, she tried to hard to impress that she simply failed. It’s like when in 2005 she recorded “La tortura” that was a completely different sound for Shakira but she did in a splendid way.
After hearing the first single, which I found horrible, I bought the album thinking that I was going to find good songs but I wasn’t even able to heard it all. It’s simply bad.
This song “Give it up to me” is the best song maybe of the album but I still find it weak. It’s like lots of other songs that have nothing special and t doesn’t fit Shakira. She is beautiful and sweet and everything but this song would look better on Gewn Stefani or Britney Spears but not Shakira. I’m sorry but no. It’s like if you ever see Norah Jones singing an AC/CD song with lots of tattoos. It simply doesn’t match.
Review by Michael Kerner for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne) Rating:
When it has honestly came down to Shakirs, her songs on She Wolf weren’t as strong as she could’ve liked. That has shown with her title track, and her second single, Give It Up To Me, the second single from that album. It really isn’t a very strong collaboration for her, instead it feels like there is little to chemistry between her & Lil’ Wayne. It is a dissapointment that she doesn’t spark the magic that she did with Hips Don’t Lie, or her earlier songs like Whereever, Whenever. I feel a bit dissapointed that Shakira didn’t surpass that. Hopefully, her next single will be be a better song to get up on the dance floor, and shake your booty to. Give It Up To Me, is worth giving up for someone else.
Review by Amaranth for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne) Rating:
Colombian diva Shakira’s “Give it up to me” is her latest celebrity duet. First was her annoying “Hips don’t lie” with reggae legend Wyclef Jean–and now the obligatory duet with overrated rapper Lil’ Wayne. Celebrities seem to feel contractually obligated to collaborate with him-from the indie rockers of Weezer,to the country pop tart Taylor Swift to Gossip Girl actors Leighton Meester. Why? I don’t know. Maybe because NPR gushed about him.
“Give it up to me” is the usual boring club dance rap song. It makes the Alicia Keys/Jay-Z “Empire State of Mind” look like a timeless rap classic. It’s that bad. Shakira, is it time to give it up?
June 21st, 2010at 2:11 pm(#)
Review by heidiB for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne)
Rating:
okay, musically not the most talented, duet not the most original, words repetitive and don’t jive in the duet – but it’s so freakin fun to dance to. Some music you just can’t critique along highbrow standards. It is what it is – and it’s kinda sexy.
June 21st, 2010at 2:40 pm(#)
Review by Javier Lopez for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne)
Rating:
Everything shouldn’t be negative so I must say that Shakira has a good voice and re-invents herself with every album that she records but I think that with her latest production “She wolf”, she tried to hard to impress that she simply failed. It’s like when in 2005 she recorded “La tortura” that was a completely different sound for Shakira but she did in a splendid way.
After hearing the first single, which I found horrible, I bought the album thinking that I was going to find good songs but I wasn’t even able to heard it all. It’s simply bad.
This song “Give it up to me” is the best song maybe of the album but I still find it weak. It’s like lots of other songs that have nothing special and t doesn’t fit Shakira. She is beautiful and sweet and everything but this song would look better on Gewn Stefani or Britney Spears but not Shakira. I’m sorry but no. It’s like if you ever see Norah Jones singing an AC/CD song with lots of tattoos. It simply doesn’t match.
June 21st, 2010at 2:54 pm(#)
Review by Michael Kerner for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne)
Rating:
When it has honestly came down to Shakirs, her songs on She Wolf weren’t as strong as she could’ve liked. That has shown with her title track, and her second single, Give It Up To Me, the second single from that album. It really isn’t a very strong collaboration for her, instead it feels like there is little to chemistry between her & Lil’ Wayne. It is a dissapointment that she doesn’t spark the magic that she did with Hips Don’t Lie, or her earlier songs like Whereever, Whenever. I feel a bit dissapointed that Shakira didn’t surpass that. Hopefully, her next single will be be a better song to get up on the dance floor, and shake your booty to. Give It Up To Me, is worth giving up for someone else.
Song: D+
June 21st, 2010at 3:42 pm(#)
Review by Amaranth for Give It Up To Me (Featuring Lil Wayne)
Rating:
Colombian diva Shakira’s “Give it up to me” is her latest celebrity duet. First was her annoying “Hips don’t lie” with reggae legend Wyclef Jean–and now the obligatory duet with overrated rapper Lil’ Wayne. Celebrities seem to feel contractually obligated to collaborate with him-from the indie rockers of Weezer,to the country pop tart Taylor Swift to Gossip Girl actors Leighton Meester. Why? I don’t know. Maybe because NPR gushed about him.
“Give it up to me” is the usual boring club dance rap song. It makes the Alicia Keys/Jay-Z “Empire State of Mind” look like a timeless rap classic. It’s that bad. Shakira, is it time to give it up?