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| Released | November 18, 2008 | |||
| Length | 4:28 | |||
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"Lay Up Under Me" is a song performed by American recording artist and producerSean Garrett for his debut studio album,Turbo 919 (2008). It was written by Garrett,Mikkel Eriksen,Tor Erik Hermansen and Shea Taylor, while its production was handled by Garrett andStargate.Interscope Records released "Lay Up Under Me" as the thirdsingle fromTurbo 919 on November 18, 2008. Music critics generally praised the collaboration between Garrett and Stargate. The song charted at number 19 on the USBubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. "Lay Up Under Me" was later rerecorded by American recording artistBeyoncé for the deluxe edition of her fourth studio album,4 (2011).
"Lay Up Under Me" was written bySean Garrett,Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen and Shea Taylor, while is production was handled by Garrett andStargate.[1] The song was released byInterscope Records and Bet I Penned It as the third single fromTurbo 919 on February 1, 2008 in the United States.[2] "Lay Up Under Me" is anR&B song, in which Garrett uses soft vocals while Stargate provides accompaniment.[3]
A writer from DJ Booth wrote that it bears resemblance to thealternate music Stargate had produced, includingJoe's 2007 song "If I Was Your Man" andJennifer Hudson's 2008 song "Spotlight".[3] He awarded "Lay Up Under Me" a rating of three stars out of five, writing that the song could find a comfortable spot in rotation with some quality radio promotion. He added that it might be "the spark needed to start the engine" of Garrett's career as a lead singer.[3] A writer fromYahoo! noted that "Lay Up Under Me" is an interesting collaboration between Sean and StarGate, before adding, "[It] is vastly different than most of the rest of the album and this is a welcome change."[4] "Lay Up Under Me" charted for four weeks on USBubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart, and peaked at number 19.[5]
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| Recorded | 2011 |
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| Length | 4:13 |
| Label | Columbia Records |
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American singerBeyoncé rerecorded "Lay Up Under Me" for the deluxe edition of her fourth studio album,4 (2011). It was made available on the deluxe edition of4, which could only be purchased atTarget Corporation until January 2012.[6] The deluxe edition was released toiTunes Stores on January 2, 2012.[7] It includes two additional tracks, "Schoolin' Life" and "Dance for You", and three remixes of thelead single "Run the World (Girls)" (2011).[6] In 2013, the Target deluxe edition and standard edition of the album were replaced with the expanded edition in both physical and iTunes formats. This edition excludes Beyoncé's version of "Lay Up Under Me".[8]
Knowles' version of "Lay Up Under Me" is anuptempoR&B andfunk song,[9][10][11] which recalls the 1970ssoul music[12] withretro stylehorn instrumentation;[13] "Lay Up Under Me" features a content-sounding Knowles gushing over the lyrics. She tells her romantic interest to forget the club as the party is right at home with her,[11] as she sings "You ain't gotta worry 'bout a club, just come on lay up under me tonight."[14]
The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. Danielle Cheesman ofMSN Music wrote that "Lay Up Under Me" is the type of song to which people "step to at a barbecue".[13] Bradley Stern of MuuMuse found the song to be as "soul-warming" as "Love on Top".[12] Likewise, Andrew Tidball of the New Zealand-based website Cheese on Toast commented that "Lay Up Under Me" is aMotown-esque number in the vein of "Love on Top", adding that the latter's "style repeated to good effect [in the former].[15] He concluded that the song should have been included on the standard version of4.[15] Alexandra Boisvert of Musiqtone wrote, "'Lay Up Under Me' is a song about exactly what it sounds like. The fact that the song is so catchy and upbeat almost distracts from the message, but it enhances the emotions portrayed."[10] Ryan Dombal ofPitchfork Media likened it toMichael Jackson's work fromOff the Wall (1979).[14]
For the week ending July 30, 2011, "Lay Up Under Me" debuted at the top of theSouth Korean International Singles Chart, selling 106,671 digital downloads.[16] It became the thirty-sixth-best selling international song of 2011 in South Korea, having sold 386,920 digital downloads.[17]
Credits are taken from4 liner notes.[18]
