Energy
Keri Hilson
The woman behind the curtain finally drops a spotlight on the starlet and takes center stage. Keri Hilson, the songwriter behind pop radio hits like Britney’s “Gimme More” and “Break The Ice,” Omarion’s “Ice Box,” Timbaland’s “The Way I Are” and Usher’s “Love In This Club,” finally gets her chance and goes solo with a forthcoming Timbaland-produced (read: mandatorily successful) album and this debut single. The original is somewhat electro-flavored urban pop (please, what would Timbaland be without stealing dance music’s hallmarks and repackaging them?), but the gay’ed up version comes from the go-to remixers The Wideboys, who do a perfect job of leaving everything from the original intact and adding just enough kick to translate it cleanly.
