Reviewers wrote positively when they found that Knowles could dance even though she was pregnant. It also charted at number 46 on the South Korea Gaon International Singles Chart.Īdria Petty directed the accompanying music video, which shows Knowles at different stages of her pregnancy and shows her as she makes references to art, fashion, and dance styles of the past. Critics stated that "Countdown" may be the highlight of Knowles' career and the most experimental song that she has ever done.įollowing the leak of "4" in early June 2011, "Countdown" received minor rotation on radio that attributed to its debut at number 75 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it has so far peaked at number 46. In the song, Knowles delivers a message of loyalty to her love interest and boasts of the ways he should feel lucky to have her. "Countdown" features a marching rhythm and contains an Afrobeat heavy brass riff. They compared it to singles from Dangerously in Love (2003) and B'Day (2006), noticing elements of funk music, and dancehall influences in the tradition of " Get Me Bodied" (2007). "Countdown" was released to US radios on Octoas the third single from the album.Ĭritics classified "Countdown" as a multi-genre song and praised the sampling of the countdown from " Uhh Ahh" by Boyz II Men. The song's development was motivated when Knowles wanted to create something different by mixing musical styles of the 1990s with the 1970s.
It was written by Terius Nash, Shea Taylor, Knowles, Ester Dean, Cainon Lamb, Julie Frost, Michael Bivins, Nathan Morris and Wanya Morris. " Countdown" is a song by American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles from her fourth studio album, 4 (2011). " beyoncé's destructive lifestyle includes frantic consumerism as she spends money in a financially irresponsible way, "all up in the store" and buying things to make her "fly as we want to.Terius Nash, Shea Taylor, Knowles, Ester Dean, Cainon Lamb, Julie Frost, Michael Bivins, Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris " she suggests that this dependent relationship lasts until the inky blackness of death, represented by the "meet at the finish line. " ladies, bound by the need to "show you the fliest," subject themselves to a life in which they are subservient to their "man," even though he may be unfaithful, riding in her "boo coupe" with "his chick right beside him. This banal existence is only remedied temporarily through desperate orgies of the flesh, as beyoncé so eloquently demonstrates through her command to "grind upon it girl, show em how you ride it. The ticking of the clock (that is portrayed by a pregnant beyoncé) is representative of the imperative, time-driven nature of the oppressive, pop-culture society in which beyoncé is trapped.
Ladies, if you love your man show you the flyestĪll up in the back because the chicks keep flockingĬountdown is a metaphorical commentary on the cyclical dance macabre that is today's postmodern, american lifestyle. Yup, I buy my own, if he deserve it, buy his shit tooĪll up in the store, shorty, tricking if I want toĪll up in the store, shorty, fly as we want to Yup, I put it on him, it ain't nothing that I can't do Oh, killing me softly and I'm still fallin' Ladies, if you love your man show him you the fliest Grind up on it, girl, show him how you ride it Ladies, if you love your man show him you the flyest Give it all to him, meet him at the finish lineĪll up in that black with his chick right beside him I'm all up under him like it's cold, winter timeĪll up in the kitchen in my heels, dinner timeĭo whatever that it takes, he got a winner's mind My girls can't tell me nothing, I'm gone in the brain Still all up on each other, ain't a damn thing changed Still love the way he rock them black diamonds in that chain Still love the way he talk, still love the way I sing Through the good and the bad, still got love Oh, you got me all gone, don't ever let me go Still the one I need, I will always be with you Oh, killing me softly and I'm still falling
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