Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2003, christina aguilera, design of a decade, lil kim, scott storch
[2003: Back to reviewing my favorite songs one at a time.]
10. Christina Aguilera featuring Lil’ Kim, Can’t Hold Us Down
Scott Storch was never a particularly likable person–dating Paris Hilton and wearing hundreds of thousands of dollars of jewelry and terrible sunglasses does not make one endearing–but for a while there the founder of Tuff Jew Records produced some really awesome pop singles. Maybe not anything from the Brooke Hogan album, or the Ruben Studdard comeback, or the MC Hammer comeback, but before that. He had co-producer credit on The Roots’ You Got Me and Eve’s Let Me Blow Ya Mind, for instance, and then he produced Pink’s Family Portrait, Lil Kim’s Lighters Up, Beyonce’s Baby Boy and Naughty Girl, and Chris Brown’s Run It. He’s also responsible for seven of the tracks on Christina Aguilera’s insanely long Stripped album, including Can’t Hold Us Down, the album’s opening song. (more…)
