F# minor · Camelot 11A · 113 BPM
Gimme More
by Britney Spears
- 113
- BPM
- F# minor
- Key
- 11A
- Camelot
- 79
- Danceability
- 25
- Acousticness
Danja added a speak-sing outro to "Gimme More" because the track was one of his first solo productions and he wanted to stake his claim. He explained that there was a lot riding on his future, since people assumed he was around only because of Tim and did not know what he was capable of. The song, recorded by Britney Spears for her 2007 album Blackout, was co-written by Jim Beanz, Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica, Nate "Danja" Hills and Keri Hilson, with Danja also producing. Spears began working with him in July 2006, and he said the creative process was easy at first because he was left to do whatever he wanted.
Keri Hilson wrote the song with Spears in mind after Danja played her the instrumental. She started singing "Give me, Give me" and built on it while having fun and messing around. Recording began in Las Vegas in August 2006, when Spears was seven months pregnant with her second child, Jayden James, and continued at her Los Angeles house three weeks after she gave birth. Hilson remarked that Spears gave 150 percent and that she knew no other mother who would do that.
The single, released on August 31, 2007, through Jive Records, peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the chart in Canada. The track closes with Danja's outro, in which he names himself, Ms. Lago and Spears.
Gimme More runs at 113 BPM, the tempo of pop, funk and disco-leaning dance. In classical terms it sits in moderato territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.12 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 531 ms. It is in F# minor, Camelot 11A, which shares its notes with A major and mixes cleanly with B minor and C# minor.
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