Britney Spears and will.i.am's "Scream and Shout" cover art
Photo: Interscope
If anyone thought that Britney Spears and will.i.am wouldn't cook up a club banger for their latest collaboration, "Scream and Shout," you were very much wrong.
The track, off will's solo album #willpower, is an amped up dance-floor anthem, full of tempo changes, sassy one-liners and dubstep aplenty.
It opens with a chugging beat and Spears proclaiming in an
accent, "When you hear this in the club, you're gonna turn this sh-- up/
When we up in the club all eyes on us/ See the boys in the club, they
watchin' us/ Everybody in the club, all eyes on us."
While the song focuses on will's lyrics about having a good time
in the club, true Britney-philes will go bananas over the chorus as it
features a reference to Brit's "Gimme More." Brit's sweet singing voice
harmonizes on the hook as they sing, "I wanna scream and shout and let
it all out/ And scream and shout and let it out/ We sayin', 'Ohh, wee
ohh, wee oh wee oh'/ We sayin', 'Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh'/ I wanna
scream and shout and let it all out/ And scream and shout and let it
out/ We sayin', 'Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh'."
The money line? "You are now-now rockin' with will.i.am and
'Britney bitch,' " the latter of which sounds like it is sampled right
from the 2007 track.
The song leaked over the weekend, ahead of its official release
on Monday (November 18). A video is still slated to drop on Thursday
during "The X Factor," Billboard
reports. "The young kids brought their game," will told the site about
the forthcoming clip. "I don't want to say it's 'swag.' Because swag
is... it's dope, but this is beyond swag. This is swag in reverse, which
is gaws."
Britney teased that a remix may also be in the works when she tweeted about the leak on Twitter,
thanking her fans for their support. "Can't say I'm thrilled our song
leaked but...," she wrote. "I AM super excited that my fans seem to love
it as much as @iamwill and I do."
"I'm so happy that people like #screanANDshout...thank you .@lazyjayofficial for the killer beat...," will added on his Twitter account. The track marks their second collaboration. They also worked together on her 2011 Femme Fatale track, "Big Fat Bass."
