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"Down for Whatever" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Rowland featuring production collective The WAV.s, taken from Rowland's third studio album ''Here I Am'' (2011). The song was released on October 26, 2011. The Eurodance driven up-tempo song is the album's third international single and sixth overall and final single, released from October 26, 2011 by Universal Motown Universal Music. "Down for Whatever" was written by Teddy Sky and Bilal Hajji and co-written and produced by RedOne, Jimmy Joker and The WAV.s. The song has been described as an Eurodance and Elctro music. The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who say that the song is as catchy as Rowland's pervious dance hits, "When Love Takes Over" and "Commander". It was also described as a "Radio friendly song". "Down for Whatever" had commercial success, as the song charted at number-six in the UK Singles Chart and number-three on the UK Dance Chart. With the release of the single, an accompanying music video was directed by Sarah Chatfield, which features Rowland dancing and a number of different club lights, as the song is a club-dance song and was released on 19 October 2011. To promote the song, Rowland performed the song on ''The Graham Norton Show'', ''The X Factor'' which Rowland served as a judge and the German version of the show, ''X Factor''. ==Background and composition== "Down for Whatever" was written by Nadir Khayat, Teddy Sky, Jimmy Joker, Bilal Hajji. Production was handled by RedOne, Joker, and the WAV.s.〔 "Down For Whatever" is an eurodance song with electro music influences.〔 Built on a thumping beat and a pounding groove, Rowland later visited Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California where "Down For Whatever" was recorded and the production was created. the song's instrumentation includes vigorous synthesizers.〔 In the mood for some loving, Rowland tells her love interest, "Baby, let's get creative".〔 Before recording the song Rowland said that she wanted the whole album to be a distinctly different sound to both Rowland's previous albums; ''Simply Deep'' (2002) followed a rock–dance sound, while ''Ms. Kelly'' (2007) featured an urban sound. And that she was going to be a lot more up-tempo on tracks, which guided her towards recording "Down for Whatever". When recording the album Rowland specifically noted that US and international audiences would appreciate a different sound from her album. The more up-tempo and dancier tracks were reserved for the international markets. "Down for Whatever" was only released to countries outside of North America. It was later announced that Rowland would join the judging panel of the eighth series of ''The X Factor''. On many occasions, Rowland has always expressed her love for dance music, however she said that the music would not be the type of music she would record. Although back in 2008 she met David Guetta, and the pair became friends and later in 2009, Rowland released her first dance single, "When Love Takes Over". When Rowland began recording her third album, ''Here I Am'', her record label, Columbia Records was not very enthuisatic about dance music, although Rowland was very keen to record dance genre. This made Rowland depart from her record label and she later joined Universal Motown Records in 2009. After the successful release of "Commander" Rowland decided to continue creating dance music for her upcoming third studio album.〔 In February 2011, during New York Fashion Week, Rowland confirmed that she also had sessions arranged with RedOne, which led to the conception of the album's tenth song, a Eurodance song called "Down for Whatever," co-produced by The WAV.s and Jimmy Joker. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Down for Whatever」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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