Turn It Up (Brandy song)

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"Turn It Up"
Song by Brandy
from the album Afrodisiac
ReleasedNovember 2003
Recorded2003
StudioHit Factory Criteria (Miami)
Genre
Length4:12
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)
  • Walter Millsap III
  • Timothy Mosley
  • Candice Nelson
Producer(s)Timbaland

"Turn It Up" is a song by American singer

club banger
to assume her position atop the game.

"Turn It Up" was generally well received by contemporary music critics who highlighted Timbaland's production and the song's energetic nature. The first song that Nelson and her team wrote from the Afrodisiac sessions, it also was the first song from the project to be

German Black Charts.[2]

Background

"Turn It Up" was produced by

House Party and Tony! Toni! Toné!'s 1996 studio album House of Music.[3] The line "'Cause I don't wanna sound familiar, want a guaranteed single, not an album filler" levels indirect criticism at former main producer Rodney Jerkins.[4]

Critical reception

Terry Sawyers from PopMatters commented that with "Turn It Up" Norwood "doesn’t completely drop the club thumpers, laying down “Turn It Up”, with drums that trip over themselves and alternate their pace while Brandy breathing in to keep the pace bumping." He added that while "Brandy’s voice isn’t exactly a barn burner, it’s not mentioned enough that she does more than enough with what she’s got. She never leaves her voice hanging in spotlit scarcity."[5] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly declared that track a "superior dance number", which "should have Janet Jackson second-guessing her last album."[6] Stylus Magazine's Josh Love called the song "one of the album’s best and brightest cuts" on Afrodisiac. He remarked that it "finds Brandy waxing nostalgic for Kid 'N Play's House Party, of all things."[7]

Kitty Empire, writing for The Observer, wrote that "Turn It Up" was "a surefire party tune that hangs on a thoroughly ridiculous hook: Timbaland singing 'Noo noo noo'."[8] Keya Modessa of The Situation wrote that "perhaps the only track, which seems little out of place, is "Turn It Up" and that is only because it's slightly more energetic than the rest of the album."[9] Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani ranked "Turn It Up" along with "Afrodisiac" and "Should I Go" as album highlights on Afrodisiac.[10]

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from Afrodisiac liner notes.[13]

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Brandy Teases New Album with Vinyl". 94.1 QZK. Archived from the original on November 7, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Jahrscharts 2004". MTV.de. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2007.
  3. ^ Jones, Steve (July 15, 2004). "An Afrodisiac toast to Brandy". USA Today. Retrieved January 18, 2007.
  4. ^ Sedgewick, Augustin (June 3, 2003). "Brandy Splits With Husband". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Retrieved October 16, 2008.
  5. ^ Sawyer, Terry (September 17, 2004). "Brandy: Afrodisiac". PopMatters. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
  6. ^ Browne, David (July 5, 2004). "Afrodisiac Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
  7. ^ Love, Josh (July 29, 2004). "Brandy – Afrodisiac – Review". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
  8. ^ Empire, Kitty (June 27, 2004). "The Bees, Free the Bees". The Observer. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
  9. ^ Modessa, Keya (June 28, 2004). "Reviews: Brandy: Afrodisiac". The Situation. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
  10. ^ Cinquemani, Sal (June 28, 2004). "Afrodisiac review". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
  11. ^ "Brandy (2)– Turn It Up I". Discogs. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  12. ^ "Brandy (2)– Turn It Up II". Discogs. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  13. ^ Afrodisiac (Media notes). Atlantic Records. 2004.
  14. ^ "Blackmusic Jahrescharts 2004". Gfk Entertainment. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 1, 2021 – via mtv.de.
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