What do you think of “4 Minutes,” the new Madonna single with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake?
I’m not too crazy about it. I mean, at least Timbo is taking a new angle with the old-school horn hits, but it’s not really too exciting otherwise. Pop music these days seems to pander to a very restless … generation. We get bored so quickly that every part of the song has to have a short, catchy hook. Songs like “4 Minutes” try to borrow all the catchy elements of dance music, but that always comes at a cost. Rappers might be comfortable spitting over a relatively slow hip-hop beat, but Timbo’s house music productions are so fast that they turn everyone into amateur rappers. But he did a good job of trying to turn the song into an anthem by making the chorus half the speed of the verse, so you can learn the words quickly and then sing along to it when you’re drunk on the dance floor. It’s sort of cheesy though. Like a superhero theme on steroids. It reminds me of the Pokemon song!
