"Give It 2 Me" is a song by American recording artist Madonna, featured on her eleventh studio album Hard Candy. It was released on June 4, 2008 by Warner Bros. Records as the second single from the album. The song was written by Madonna as an anthemic, self-manifesto song which, although it appears to be about dance and sex, is a reference to Madonna's career spanning three decades in the music industry. Musically, "Give It 2 Me" is an upbeat dance song, featuring instrumentation from West African percussion and cowbells. Backing vocals are provided by Pharrell Williams.
"Give It 2 Me" received positive reviews from contemporary critics. The song became Madonna's thirty-ninth number-one single on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. It charted on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week, and reached a peak of fifty-seven only, due to limited radio play. The song topped the music charts in the Netherlands and Spain, while it attained top-ten positions on the charts of many other European nations.
What are you waiting for? Nobody's gonna show you how Why work for someone else To do what you can do right now?
Got no boundaries and no limits If there's excitement, put me in it If it's against the law, arrest me If you can handle it, undress me
Don't stop me now, don't need to catch my breath I can go on and on and on When the lights go down and there's no one left I can go on and on and on
Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna show me how Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna stop me now
They say that a good thing never lasts And then it has to fall Those are the the people that did not Amount to much at all
Give me the bassline and I'll shake it Give me a record and I'll break it There's no beginning and no ending Give me a chance to go and I'll take it
Don't stop me now, don't need to catch my breath I can go on and on and on When the lights go down and there's no one left I can go on and on and on
Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna show me how Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna stop me now
(Pharrell:) Watch this
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Don't stop me now, don't need to catch my breath I can go on and on and on When the lights go down and there's no one left I can go on and on and on
Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna show me how Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna stop me now
You're only here to win Get what they say? You're only here to win Get what they do? They'd do it too If they were you You done it all before It ain't nothing new
You're only here to win Get what they say? You're only here to win Get what they do? They'd do it too If they were you You done it all before It ain't nothing new
Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna show me how Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna stop me now Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna show me how Give it to me, yeah No one's gonna stop me now
Give it to me
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