Slow Down Baby

Infobox Single
Name = Slow Down Baby


Artist = Christina Aguilera
Album = Back to Basics
Released = July 28 2007 (Australia)
Format = CD single, digital download, Airplay
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Pop, R&B, jazz rap
Length = 3:29 (Radio Edit)
Label = RCA
Writer = Christina Aguilera, Mark Ronson, Kara DioGuardi, Raymond Angry, William Guest, M. Knight, Edward Patton, Gladys Knight, Marvin Bernard, Michael Harper
Producer = Mark Ronson
Certification =
Chronology = Christina Aguilera singles
Last single = "Candyman"
(2007)
This single = "Slow Down Baby"
(2007)
Next single = "Oh Mother"
(2007)

"Slow Down Baby" is a song recorded by American singer Christina Aguilera. It was the fourth single released from her third album, "Back to Basics" (2006). It was released as an international double A-side song with "Oh Mother".

"Slow Down Baby" was released as a promotional single in July 2007 in the Oceanian and Asian countries, as well as in Sweden (where it was a freebie with an issue of the magazine Cosmopolitan). It was not released in the U.S. It had a moderate success in Australia only reaching the chart at number twenty-one.

Writing and recording

"Slow Down Baby" was written by Aguilera, Mark Ronson, Kara DioGuardi, Raymond Angry, William Guest, M. Knight, Edward Patton, Gladys Knight, Marvin Bernard, Michael Harper, and Curtis Jackson. It was produced by Mark Ronson and Aguilera for her third studio album, "Back to Basics", in 2006.Citation |last= |first= |title=Back to Basics-Cd Booklet |url= |publisher=RCA Records |date=2006 |accessdate=]

The song contains two samples: "Window Raisin' Granny" performed by Gladys Knight & the Pips from their 1973 album "Imagination", and Tony Yayo's debut single "So Seductive" (2005).

"Slow Down Baby" is a pop song set moderately in the key of F# minor. [Cite web |last= |first= |title=Christina Aguilera Digital Sheet Music: Slow Down Baby |url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/scorch.asp?ppn=SC0041330 |publisher=Musicnotes, Inc. |date= |accessdate=2007-12-26] The instrumentation of its features bass, clav, guitar, organ and piano.

Track listing

;CD single
#"Slow Down Baby" – 3:29
#"Slow Down Baby" (Instrumental) – 3:28

Charts

References