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Hopefully you all know who RedOne is by now. If not, listen up cos he's a very important man! His real name is Nadir Khayat and he's a Moroccan-Swede who has been working as a writer/producer for about 10 years now. His first hit in Sweden was Darin's Step Up, a song which was clearly so much before it's time that people just weren't ready for it, as it never caught on outside of Sweden. He continued working with Darin, but he didn't really have any success other than with Darin, until about a year ago when he started collaborating with Akon and other artists on the Konvict label, such as Kat De Luna and... Lady GaGa! I personally think that Just Dance is his very best work, and that is why it has begun a massive RedOne craze. Every new artist has a RedOne song on their album, from R&B girls like Pixie and Esmee Denters to boybands like V Factory and Menudo. He's also working with major artists such as Enrique and Ciara, whose brilliant new single reminds me a lot of Breathing Your Love by Darin and Kat De Luna, one of my favourite songs of last year.

Anyway, the main point of this post was to share with you the new single by US R&B girlband Jada, which was released to iTunes last week. The verses are just OK but the chorus is brilliantly catchy. I think it's another of RedOne's masterpieces:

There's also another RedOne song that's becoming a hit in Europe: Flipsyde's When it was Good. I think this is another great song, and a million times better than Flipsyde's bizarre previous hit, Happy Birthday, which sampled t.A.T.u. Again the chorus really stands out, but I enjoy the song as a whole too.

What do you think? Could they be international mega-hits?

Comments

[koganbot]

I've listened to only a small fraction of RedOne's tracks, but a signature of his (other than making the artists sing his name at the start of anything he produces) is that he'll fuzz up his main riffs in order to give his tracks a loud impact. I think "Just Dance" is a terrific song, but I do have to fight my way through the fuzz to get to my enjoyment. Same with his Cassie track, "Let's Get Crazy," which I like a lot anyway. (Only in the context of these songs does Kat DeLuna's "Whine Up" seem subtle in comparison. "Featuring, Elephant Man, who brings his characteristic elephantine subtlety....")

As for these two songs, I agree about their choruses being good, but unless better rips or cleaner mixes show up, the choruses aren't good enough to compensate for the struggle.