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Timbaland’s been playing around with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado for the last few years. These days, you can’t watch the videos of any one without the other two popping up. They really are a very cosy triumvirate.

But, if JT and Nelly are the pretty faces at the front, the big guy making the actual music happen is Mr Timbaland.

I have to admit, my first reaction to Give It To Me wasn’t totally enthusiastic. For a start, Furtado takes the majority of vocals on the track, so my initial reaction was that Timbaland was hiding behind the bigger names. Is that a wise move? Is it as bad as this?

Bill Lamb over at About.com noted some clever bits of sarcasm in the lyrics:

It’s also more amusing than upsetting to hear Nelly Furtado toying with those fans into her body parts, Timbaland, according to reports, settling scores with Scott Storch (”just the piano man”), and JT bragging about chart performance and the cleverness of “SexyBack”. As the lyrics state, they “ain’t here to hurt nobody.” Instead, they “wanna see you work your body,” and this will go down great in clubs.

Yeah, I missed all that. But I agree that as it grows on you, Give It To Me is a great club track. I’d just like to hear Timbaland out in front a bit more instead of making cameo appearances on his own track.