“Knock You Down” - Keri Hilson featuring Kanye West and Ne-Yo Why: “Somebody call 911,” because this reggae-pop track is burning up the floor - dance fever! The artist “brings the heat,” says Z100’s JJ.ĥ. Why: Hebrew rhymes! “Fill my cup, mazel tov, look at her dancing, just take it off, let’s paint the town, we’ll shut it down, let’s burn the roof and then we’ll do it again.” The song is exciting and has perfect summer charm. “The Timbaland-like opening beats suck you in immediately, but you’re not sure if it’s Madonna, Gwen Stefani or Britney Spears,” says Q104 deejay Jonathan Clarke. Why: Native New Yorker Miss Gaga is on fire with a mishmash of ’80s glam-metal, techno and pop. ![]() (Post pick!) Why: It’s gotta get-get, gotta get-get the vote: Synthy techno never sounded so earthy. ![]() 2 slots, respectively, of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for two weeks running - the first band to do so in more than five years.Ĭheck out the field and vote for the Song of the Summer at. With “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling,” from the chart-topping album “The E.N.D.,” the Black Eyed Peas have held the No. And the band looks to have a lock on this year’s Song of the Summer with not one contender, but two. It helps to have built-in hand moves as well, which is the case with the decidedly, um, cheeky “Boom Boom Pow” by the Black Eyed Peas. JJ explains that unknown element: “You find yourself doing involuntary butt-cheek dancing,” he says. With rain and unemployment levels up and the King of Pop down, everyone is looking for a happy, easy-to-dance-to, party-vibe song, or, as Z100 deejay JJ says, “an anti-recession summer-sounding song.”Ĭompelling lyrics, a pulsating beat and that je ne sais quois summer vibe. ![]() WITH apologies to Katy Perry, girl-on-girl fantasies are so last year.Īs much as we “love the concept of girls kissing,” says Ebro Darden, program director of Hot 97, this summer people are looking for a song to shake to.
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