Do It (Nelly Furtado song)

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"Do It"
Single by Nelly Furtado
from the album Loose
ReleasedJuly 24, 2007 (2007-07-24)
Recorded2006
StudioHit Factory Criteria (Miami)
GenreDance-pop
Length3:41
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Nelly Furtado
  • Tim Mosley
  • Nate Hills
Producer(s)
Nelly Furtado singles chronology
"Te Busqué"
(2007) 		"Do It"
(2007) 		"In God's Hands"
(2007)
Music video
"Do It" on
YouTube

"Do It" is a song by Canadian singer Nelly Furtado from her third studio album, Loose (2006). It was written by Furtado, Danja, and Timbaland, and was also produced by Danja and Timbaland. The song is strongly influenced by 1980s dance music and features sexually suggestive lyrics, in which the song's protagonist asks a lover to satisfy her sexually.

"Do It" reached the top twenty in Canada and was a number-one dance hit in the United States, where it became Furtado's lowest peaking single on the Billboard Hot 100.

The

MuchMusic on July 13, 2007,[1] and on MTV's Total Request Live
on August 1, 2007.

In January 2007, it was revealed that the song contained material plagiarized by Timbaland.[2]

Composition

Furtado has credited the influence of 1980s musicians such as Blondie, Madonna, the Police, Prince and Talking Heads on Loose, saying that the album's creative team "were picking up on some of the more surreal, theatrical elements of '80s music, the stuff that puts you in sort of a dream state. There's a mysterious, after-midnight vibe to this album that's extremely visceral. I want people to escape into the music and indulge their most animalistic impulses."[3] Referring to the sexually suggestive lyrics in "Do It" and other songs on Loose, Furtado cited the influence of what she described as "the assertive female sexuality of '90s hip-hop, from Queen Latifah to MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, Salt-N-Pepa, TLC. They were sexy, smart and creative—strong women in control. That's what I like about the sexual content on Loose: It's very organic."[4]

Plagiarism controversy

Main article: Timbaland plagiarism controversy

In January 2007, several news sources reported that Timbaland was alleged to have plagiarized several elements (both motifs and samples) featured in the song without giving credit or compensation.[2]

The melody, chord progression and other elements were taken from the track "Acidjazzed Evening" by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni, which was available as a chiptune-style 4-channel Amiga module file.[5]

Critical reception

Billboard magazine said "[it] again demonstrates Furtado's striking versatility [...] Missy Elliott is stripped onto the single version, with a midsection breakdown . . . amusing, but hardly necessary in scoring yet another essential moment from [Loose]".[6] Stylus magazine cited the track and "No Hay Igual" as the album's "undisputed highlights [...] The two songs couldn't possibly be more different, yet the duo [Furtado and Timbaland] manages to convincingly pull off both of them."[7] Slant Magazine said the song is "a deliciously uptempo 80's cut",[8] and The Guardian wrote that Furtado "delivers irresistible hooks of Maneater, Promiscuous and Do It with punchy, playful charisma rather than breathy cooing."[9] Blogcritics published a more negative assessment of the song:

The songs are much more upbeat and not recognizable as the Nelly Furtado that has come to make our ears flutter with her beautiful eclectic sounds. Take for example the song "Do It". What a blast from the '80s past! Here we have a song that would be a huge hit in the '80s thrown in on an album that so desperately wants to score a club hit so that teenagers will download the song as a ringtone. It's a mess. Should we blame Timbaland for the need to clean up aisle 3?[10]

synth splashes."[7] According to The Northern Light, Furtado "sings on a bouncy '80s-style track—complete with the keyboard solo—about something reminiscent of a night of high school romance. The track echoes Gwen Stefani's "Crash", but with less of a dance groove."[12] The Observer said that the song "drops an early Eighties Street Sounds electro-pop motif into some frisky footwork from Timbaland",[15] and Slant Magazine characterised the song as an "'80s uptempo cut that imagines what The Jets would've sounded like if they'd been singing about getting some instead of just having crushes".[8] The website Okayplayer called "Do It" and the Loose tracks "Maneater" and "Glow" "electronic-influenced dance songs" similar to another track, "Promiscuous", with "a club-friendly '80s-influenced synthesizer melody."[16] Sun Media described it as "'80s-era Madonna-reminiscent",[17] and a writer for the blog MTV Buzzworthy said it sounds like "a mash-up of old-school Madonna".[18]

Music video

The

feathers
.

The video was premiered on

VSpot Top 20 Countdown, Furtado's most successful video on that countdown [23]

Chart performance

The song debuted on the US

Hot Dance Club Play chart. On the Canadian Hot 100, the song debuted at number sixty in early August 2007 and peaked at number eleven.[25]

In Europe, "Do It" reached number twenty-two in Germany, remaining on

the singles chart for nine weeks.[26] The single reached the top twenty in the Netherlands and Norway and the top forty in Switzerland and Belgium. It charted outside the top forty in Austria.[25] In the United Kingdom, "Do It" debuted at number ninety-five and peaked on its fourth week of charting at number seventy-five[27] and dropped off the next week.[25]

Track listings

Personnel

Credits adapted from the Loose liner notes.[28]

Charts

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Do It"
Region Date Format Version Label Ref.
United States July 24, 2007 Contemporary hit radio featuring Missy Elliott
[59]
August 7, 2007 Digital download [60]
DACH
 September 28, 2007
Various Universal [61][62]

See also

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