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On the Floor

"On the Floor"
The cover art for the single, featuring a full-face view of a light-brown-skinned woman (Jennifer Lopez) posing before what appear to be white plastic curtains. She's wearing make-up, clothes and jewelry suitable for a night at the disco. Her blue party dress leaves her arms, parts of her waist and top of her chest bare. She has several silvery chains around her neck. Her hair is streaked light and dark brown and hangs down carelessly to her shoulders and below. Large, multi-colored letters in the foreground read "JLO". Sideways on the right edge are the somewhat smaller words in blue, "ON THE FLOOR" and "FEAT. PITBULL".
Single by Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
from the album Love?
Released February 8, 2011 (2011-02-08)
Format
Recorded 2010; Cove Studios (New York City); Henson Recording (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length 3:51 (Radio Edit)
4:44 (Album Version)
Label Island
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Producer(s)
Jennifer Lopez singles chronology
"Louboutins"
(2009)		 "On the Floor"
(2011)		 "I'm Into You"
(2011)
Pitbull singles chronology
"Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor)"
(2010)		 "On the Floor"
(2011)		 "Tu Cuerpo"
(2011)

"On the Floor" is a song recorded by American singer Jennifer Lopez for her seventh studio album, Love? (2011). Featuring American rapper Pitbull, it was released by Island Records on February 8, 2011 as the lead single from the album. "On the Floor" was written by Kinda "Kee" Hamid, AJ Junior, Teddy Sky, Bilal "The Chef" Hajji, Pitbull, Gonzalo Hermosa, Ulises Hermosa, along with the song's producer RedOne. It is an up-tempo electro-house dance song with a common time tempo of 130 beats per minute. "On the Floor" incorporates elements of electro house and draws further musical influences from eurodance, Latin music and techno music. Lopez recorded a Spanish-language version of the song titled "Ven a Bailar" (English: "Come to Dance"), which includes additional lyrical contributions from Julio Reyes Copello and Jimena Romero.

Its development was motivated by Lopez's Latin heritage and pays homage to her career-beginnings as a dancer. Interpolated within the song are recurrent elements of the 1982 Bolivian composition "Llorando se fue" written by Gonzalo and Ulises Hermosa, a composition that gained notoriety when it was sampled by Kaoma in their 1989 single "Lambada". Lopez described "On the Floor" as an evolution of her classic sound and as something which sounded very current. The debut and release of "On the Floor" coincided with Lopez's appointment as a judge on the tenth season of US reality TV show American Idol, as well as several other product endorsement deals. American Idol also provided a platform to debut the single's music video, as well as the stage for Lopez's first live performance of the song.


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