Jamie Foxx featuring Drake, The-Dream and Kanye West “Digital Girl (West Coast Remix)”
In which Jamie Foxx takes the perfectly fine as-is Intuition highlight “Digital Girl” and gives it a needless re-scrubbing, bringing in an entirely different beat, brand new lyrics and a ho-hum guest appearance from Drake.
Dubbed the “West Coast Remix” (or, in some corners of the Web, the “MJ Remix”), we can appreciate it’s BBQ-in-the-park ’90’s R&B Cali groove and Jamie’s R-rated King of Pop shout-out (“I wanna ‘beat it’/ (Like Michael)/ Cause you ‘Bad’ (Like Michael)/ ‘Billie Jean’ it (Like Michael)/ Make you ‘Scream’ It (Like Michael)”), but ultimately this “Digital Girl” 2.0 pales in comparison to the spaced-out digi-soul of the album version.
To Foxx’ people: it’s completely understandable why you might want to rush deliver this one to the necessary outlets first (Drake + MJ tribute + slight summer jam appeal = major urban airwave spins for the moment), but if we don’t get a video and a proper radio push of the far superior original (followed by a single release of Intuition’s other solid jam, the Timbaland-blessed “I Don’t Need It”), we’re gonna have a problem.
DL: “Digital Girl (West Coast Remix)” (alt)
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