Pitbull: 'I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)'

What is it about summer that makes the British public lose their sense of musical decency? It only takes a few days of 30° heat, a cheap package deal to Magaluf and a jug of Woo Woo and suddenly the 'Macarena' sounds like a long-lost nugget of Latin-pop genius. Looking to cash in on these lowered standards is Miami-born Pitbull, whose records to date have been based around crunk, hip-hop and Cuban influences.

'I Know You Want Me', however, finds him trying his hand at the latest hip-hop craze - mixing rap and Eurodance. Featuring the sampled-to-death brass from Chicago's 'Street Player' and the lecherous refrain "I know you want me, you know I want cha", this track doesn't seem like it can sink much lower. But then it does. Pitbull starts rapping in Spanish ("Que ola Cata, Que ola Omega"), he brags about having a girl in his "cockpit", and somehow manages to slip in a rhyme about Alfred Hitchcock. Even five fishbowl cocktails and a foam party couldn't make this drivel bearable.


> Click here to watch the 'I Know You Want Me' video