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VEVO [AUDIO]: 4U GIRLS- EARTHQUAKE Genre: R&B/Urban/Hip-Hop/Pop/Club
Length: 3:48
Producers: Timbaland/XROCKA/Post & Oak/4U Girls
Release: July 19th 2013
Label: Kiss My Pop The urban girls are back with a new single 'Earthquake' following their summer smash 'Riot' the lead single from their highly anticipated album ' Domination' Produced by heavyweights of the urban genre Timbaland, XROCKA, and Post & Oak gives this urban club banger the hit potential it needs to really launch the girls off to new heights. All the talented producers came together to produce the heavy club styled record to influence the dance talents of the girls and the sex appeal of woman, but also to explain how big the girls are going to take over music with their skills and sound, also their big and hardcore tom boyish style. Recorded in Los Angeles at Timbaland's studio where many of R&B finest icons have recorded included Justin Timberlake and the late Aaliyah is where 4U Girl's laid down their freedom influenced vocals but showcased such an colorful and fun vocal range in the girls. Written all by the girls, the girls had some influenced in the lyrics and also flow of the lyrics. The girls are not actually rapping, they are adding a little 'swag' to their vocals, adding the stunning ablibs from Aubrei and the powerful notes from Laci as Bianca and Danielle take on the verses. The girls are going to remembered from this track simply because of the dance, the arrangement and the dope ass bass that XROCKA produced and Timbaland came together to give R&B/Urban music lovers the club slayer they need just to end the summer and begin the fall. 4U Girls are under Kiss My Pop Records and it's the fifth single under the label. The single is released July 19th on iTunes for your digital track (BUY HERE) and available to request on your local radios today as well.  The intro is always the beginning of anything that catches the listeners attention. 4U Girls knew the perfect producer to produce a retro/futuristic intro to describe the underground sounds of an big earthquake in the middle of a summer day, the thrill, the fear of a earthquake. They called Post & Oak that has worked with several R&B artists on epic interludes and club bangers, also hip-hop artists. Post & Oak wanted something futuristic for the record, but wanted the listeners and the nightlife to wonder how will this song begin and how will it end. They wanted the intro to be mysterious, but create something that it was never heard before in a intro. He put down some sythns of harmony with 4U Girls in the background in a low register then he added some hip bass that Timbaland actually created days after the record was almost finished. He created this myserious, dark but somehow he added the funk and 'vibe' feeling to such an later on banger record. He knew how to transfer his sounds, he knew how to keep the listeners staying around for more of the record. He took the funk, the amazing bass and the smoothness of the intro and made it something 4U never heard before and was excited to hear it. Post & Oak visioned such an dope track. He did it with this produced intro: [Begins 0:00-0:21]
 After the listener is wondering how this record is going to be, even the girls was kind of clueless on the direction of the record when Post & Oak laid down the intro arrangement. XROCKA saved the nerves and just continued the dive in with the intro. He further the funk, but it added the smoothness again and XROCKA adding her crunk vocals in the back, screaming out: " We did it again! EARTHQUAKE, yeah, yeah." in the beginning of the dive in, seconds after the intro is complete. She did just to get the dancers on the dance floor moving, she paused the beat in the middle of it's arrangement and then added a bass drum to the background then mixed her crunk vocals with the layer of the bass, paused it again then she did something that the girls thought was as dope of the intro, she added a baseline with a drums in the back then mixed the girls intro harmony vocals with the drums while it was mixing nicely along the bass, creating a smooth background harmony instrument arrangement along with the dope dive in that is slowly but surely getting you warm up for the verse arrangement. The dive in continues with the intro [Begins 0:21- 0:37]
 All the producers all came together to produce the verse arrangement, XROCKA added her unique and devote style of music that influenced hip-hop and pop music while Timbaland gives it the fresh and hip style it needs, he also produces and plays the bass during 4U's vocal performance in the studio. Post & Oak gave the extra push it needed to make it full. The girls give attuide, hardcore personality, rough and big personalities mixed in with big vocals in this record. It goes along the tempo of the verses but the hype and groove of this record is a little more faster in the tempo as the down-tempo is in the back with the back arrangements mixed with the intro arrangement, the two arrangement that comes together in the record are both nicely mastered with the tempo and melody of the verses. The girls successfully keeps paced with the pitch and tempo of the verse arrangement. Beautifully the girls uses their techniques to add adlibs and power steer notes with the verses, showing off their vocal range but still keeping up with the arrangement and pace of the song. The quick and fun easy verses are done by Danielle and Bianca, the rest of the girls back up the lead vocals with adlibs. Aubrei shows off her flawless falsetto in the back as the Danielle and Bianca give you life with their attuide and strong natural vocal tone. What makes the girls lost it, they feel the track more, they dance in the studio, they give the strong natural vocal tone, the strength of their higher registers, the power in the pitch of the record is heard when Timbaland adds this amazing bass to the verse arrangement: The bass: [Listen 0:00-1:00]
After Timbaland adds the bass along with the vocals, it created the aggression to the track, more it more of a hip-hop record more than a urban. A hip-hop female club anthem to dance too. The fast paced bass is similar to the main arrangement during the verse, creating the verses to be a medium paced vocal style and arrangement, but not as fast during the chrous. The original arrangement is perfect for the dancers who like to slow it down a bit before getting to the big moves, but still gives you the thrill inside your body, the excitement in your step and the sex appeal in your personality. The verses sounds like but with a medium paced similar to the bass pace [Begins 0:00-0:45]
 The pre-chorus is where the fun begins for this record. XROCKA put together is unique form of pre-chrous and Danielle wrote the pre-chrous, during the pre-chrous as Timbaland shouts the pre-chrous, his hype is heard as he shouts and Aubrei beautiful high falsetto is heard as the same time Timbaland is getting his thang on. He sounds as if he is in a club, getting people ready for the next record, adding his aggrestive and fun adlibs during the pre-chrous screaming, Hit them like a rack/hit them like a rack/hit them like a earthquake in the middle of Iraq.
The arrangement is similar too this along with the voice: [Begins 0:18- 0:30]
 The record begins to get more aggressive and gives that pure hip-hop style during the chorus. As the girls all come together in this powerful chorus, they all sing in a powerful higher register, taking it high then bringing it low, but still manages to get the hype and excitement in their vocals with the vibe of the arrangement. Timbaland and Danielle all scream and shout in the background, " Earthquake, shake it like a earthquake' repeating every line in the chrous in the background as the remaining ladies give you the hardcore vocal tone in their vocals, and Aubrei adlibs mixing as she goes into a falsetto and more into her natural pitches in the record. How the girls vocally sing in their voices match perfectly with the bass and arrangement of the chorus. They all makes their voices a little more aggrestive as if they were boys singing the chrous everytime the bass drops during the arrangement, as a little rumbling sound effect is in the background as the girls show off their attuide during the chorus. The chrous sounds like:[0:00-0:19]
As the bass in the backgrounds, getting higher and higher, bigger in sound and powerful in drifts. Aubrei does something extremely impressful as her falsetto starts in a very low register, she takes it in register, hitting six notes in the matter of one minutes, taking it in registers as the bass goes higher; Aubrei stunning falsetto goes along with the pitch of the bridge breakdown to the rumbling in the background sounding as if it's breaking sometimes. All the girls say in the background as Aubrei falsetto outshadows the bridge vocals is Climbing out/it's so hard to keep up/climbing out/please hold fire/it's getting hot/we know we can do better/this earthquake/it's not going to ruin the end/earthquake, shake it for the better/ Bridge Breakdown sounds like:
[Starts 2:46-3:36]As the song comes to a end, the producers and 4U Girls leave you with something to still be amazed at, as the outro ends this track and smoothly goes into the next record on the album: Outro:
[Begins 2:50-3:23]Danielle- First Verse [Natural Vocal Tone, deep alto notes, sheer power in deeper register]
Bianca- Second Verse (Light vocal tone, in her medium register, she goes higher later in the verse, strong vocal downgo in her chest notes, power in head voice, less power in chest, falsetto are quick as she returns to her light vocal tone]
Aubrei- [Falsetto arrangements, backup]
Laci- Bridge [powerful sheer high notes, mixes head + chest voice, backup] Lyrics Verse 1:
So massive, we can it a blowout
So powerful, you can feel it before earth knows
{Nobody but yourself standing here)
So outrages, it cant be controlled.
So crowned, my girls really like my style
So charming, nothin' is nice about this feeling,
blowing it before you know, I know it can be bad feeling.
[Yeah yeah, I live for you]
You're so beat, I know this
It's big, it cant fit,
in the middle of this.
[Is the last] of this world
being apart, of my crew, killing
everyone who walks across.
Hit them like a rack,
hit them like a rack,
hit them like a Earthquake in the middle
of Iraq (x5)
Shake it like a Earthquake (Baby dont be afraid)
Get down like a Earthquake, I'm going to make this come
alive. Shake it like a Earthquake, (Earthquake baby)
Get down like a Earthquake, I'm gettin' down like
no one business, mind yours, this is the deep feeling.
Shake it baby, oooooooo, shake it baby, (Like a Earthquake)
get down baby, [I know I can) shake it like a Earthquake.
Earthquake, yeah.
Verse 2:
So big, you cant handle it all.
So large, it covers everything above.
She's hot, on the dance floor,
she's a threat. Make move,
Earthquake takes everyone's move.
[It's late) everyone is shocked by the
impact.
So bold, it's doesn't care who it catch.
So low, she gets down on the dancefloor,
hot hot hot, it's so hot, (to feel the)
the rum, rumble baby, rum rum baby,
it's almost time to.
Oh, yes, It's big, it cant fit,
in the middle of this.
[Is the last] of this world
being apart, of my crew, killing
everyone who walks across.
Shake it like a Earthquake (Baby dont be afraid)
Get down like a Earthquake, I'm going to make this come
alive. Shake it like a Earthquake, (No matter where you are,)
Shake it like a Earthquake, get down, (baby, an earthquake)
I'm gettin' down like
no one business, mind yours, this is the deep feeling.
Shake it baby, oooooooo, shake it baby, (Like a Earthquake)
get down baby, [I know I can) shake it like a Earthquake.
Earthquake, yeah.
Bridge:
Climbing out/all my strengths are beneath me/climbing out/please hold fire/it's getting hot/we know we can do better/this earthquake/it's not going to ruin the end/earthquake, shake it for the better/climbing out/ oo, we can do better/ climbing out/in this middle of this destiny/ I know me/ me is so free/shakin' it like I'm so free/ baby, follow me/to my destiny/
Shake like a Earthquake, earthquake earthquake.
Get down like a earthquake, earthquake, earthquake.
No one's business, (baby, this is a deep feeling)
Shake like a earthquake, earthquake, earthquake,
baby, we are going to make this shake. (x5)
Shake it like a Earthquake
Get down like a Earthquake, I'm going to make this come
alive. Shake it like a Earthquake, (Earthquake baby)
Get down like a Earthquake, I'm gettin' down like
no one business, mind yours, this is the deep feeling.
Shake it baby, oooooooo, shake it baby, (Like a Earthquake)
get down baby, [I know I can) shake it like a Earthquake.
Earthquake, yeah. |
