Lady Sovereign “I Got You Dancing”
Remember Lady Sovereign? The Polly Pocket-sized London grime rapper with the side ponytail, energetic persona and random (in a good way) rhyming style who arrived with much fanfare a while back (garnering props from State-side vets Jay-Z and Missy Elliott along the way)? Well, just when she was about to fall off the edge of memory, the gal returns (and sans ponytail!!!) with this first taste of her upcoming Spring 2009 album, Jigsaw.
Destined to support many a choreographed dance crew, “I Got You Dancing” percolates with a busy serving of electro-quirk bubblings, her delivery retaining that manic spunk that made her so well-liked (or well-hated, depending on your tolerance levels) before. Yeah, it lacks some of the self-deprecating wit that earned her the requisite “Fem-inem” tag (no bagging on her hairy armpits or molehill boobs here) and it still takes a couple listenings to fully understand what she’s spitting, but “Dancing”‘s exhilarating beat swirl and bits of hooky, Auto-Tuned pop polish supply enough of the goods to trigger anticipation for what else Jigsaw has awaiting for us in the new year.
DL: “I Got You Dancing” (alt)
Lady Sov is brilliant, I saw her a treading and she really got the crowd going. She looks so gorgeous too, I’ve just made her my Girl Friday on my blog.
Cheers.