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Windows Down

Release date: 25th June 2012

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'Windows Down' is an electro-rock and dance-pop track built around a sample from Blur's 'Song 2', the hook lifted cleanly from that 1997 single. Big Time Rush layer dubstep influence across the production, threading the sample through verses that trade in straightforward come-ons and the promise of a night without consequences. The song moves fast, pedal-to-the-metal energy sustained across its runtime, the repeated refrain of rolling windows and let-loose abandon doing most of the work. What hooks is the simplicity of it. There is no pretence here, no narrative complexity; the track exists in a perpetual present tense of wanting and wanting back, the lyrics stripped to their essentials. The production carries the weight, the sample doing the heavy lifting, the dubstep elements giving the whole thing a slightly harder edge than standard pop fare. It is a song designed to move bodies and clear heads, nothing more.

"Windows Down" is a single by Big Time Rush, released 25th June 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Windows Down

Throw it up, woo-hoo
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo
Yeah, yeah
Woo-hoo, yeah, yeah
You're pretty, baby
But you know that
Wish I could bring ya
Across the map, yeah
I can feel it in the air that it's on tonight
I don't really care if it's wrong or right
Pedal to the metal, baby, hold me tight
Anything you want, I can get that, girl
If you're with that, girl
Everybody knows that I want ya
If you want me, baby, show me
Roll the windows down, let your hair flow
Let it all go tonight
Party people!
Woo-hoo, all the windows down
Woo-hoo, when I'm rolling through your town
Woo-hoo, saying, "Yeah, yeah"
Woo-hoo (c'mon), saying, "Yeah, yeah"
You drive me crazy
But you know that
Feel the breeze, girl
Let's take a lap (lap), yeah (yeah)
I can feel it in the air that it's on tonight
I don't really care if it's wrong or right
Pedal to the metal, baby, hold me tight
Anything you want, I can get that, girl
If you're with that, girl (hey!)
Everybody knows that I want ya
If you want me, baby, show me
Roll the windows down, let your hair flow
Let it all go tonight
Party people!
Woo-hoo, all the windows down
Woo-hoo, when I'm rolling through your town
Woo-hoo, saying, "Yeah, yeah"
Woo-hoo (c'mon), saying, "Yeah, yeah"
Stop
It's on tonight, it's on tonight
It's on-on-on-on-on tonight
Woo-hoo, all the windows down
Woo-hoo, when I'm rolling through your town
Woo-hoo, saying, "Yeah, yeah"
Woo-hoo, saying, "Yeah, yeah"
Let's go
Woo-hoo, all the windows down
Woo-hoo, when I'm rolling through your town
Woo-hoo, saying, "Yeah, yeah"
Woo-hoo, saying, "Yeah, yeah
Woo-hoo

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Alex James, blackbear, Damon Albarn, Dave Rowntree, Graham Coxon, Kesha, Maejor, Matt Squire, Mike Posner
    Producer
    Josh Wilbur, Larry Goetz, Matt Squire
    Co-Producer
    Maejor
    Engineer
    Josh Wilbur, Larry Goetz, Matt Squire
    Guitar
    Matt Squire
    Vocals
    Carlos PenaVega, James Maslow, Kendall Schmidt, Logan Henderson
    Additional Programming
    CJ Baran, Maejor
    Assistant Engineer
    Kyle Hoffmann, Phil Seaford
    Drum Programmer
    Matt Squire
    Mixing Engineer
    John Hanes, Șerban Ghenea
    Programmer
    CJ Baran, Maejor
    Synthesizer
    Matt Squire
    Vocal Producer
    Matt Squire
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