No. 33: Eve Shakes Her Way Onto Our List

jharv | December 7, 2007 3:00 am
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Because the song at No. 33 moves to the beat of a… well, you know.

Really, this spot could have gone to either Eve’s “Tambourine” or to Beyonce’s late-breaking B’Day single “Get Me Bodied,” which is to say that, for all of Eve’s curled-lip sass or B’s hair-pulling ecstasy, the spot really belongs to the semi-ubiquitous Swizz Beatz, responsible for the best of the recent wave of uptempo urban dance records not produced by the Timbahands team or one of their entranced proteges/biters, polyrhythmic late-decade playground jams played by the self-proclaimed one-man-band like a one-man-pep-rally: manic layered percussion, disco whistles, rung alarms, and shouted/sampled hooks, no brass section necessary. (In the end we picked “Tambourine” because it’s your typical snapping 21st-century Swizz track but, like, moreso, buzzier and stuffed with little drum hooks and snare fills.) “You gotta shake your ass,” but compared to the Euro-steppers ease of “The Way I Are” and its ilk, you gotta work twice as hard here to keep that ass from tripping itself up.

Eve – “Tambourine” [YouTube] Idolator’s 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness

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