"Give Me Something" is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1980 on John Lennon and Ono's duet album Double Fantasy. The song appeared in Ono's off-Broadway musical New York Rock and her compilation albums Walking on Thin Ice and Onobox. In 2010, the Junior Boys remix of the song was released as a free download on MySpace Music and RCRD LBL.[1]
"Give Me Something" | |
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Song by Yoko Ono | |
from the album Double Fantasy | |
Released | 17 November 1980 |
Recorded | 1980 |
Genre | Rock |
Length | 1:35 |
Label | Geffen |
Songwriter(s) | Yoko Ono |
Producer(s) | Yoko Ono |
Double Fantasy track listing | |
14 tracks
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"Give Me Something" | ||||
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Single by Yoko Ono | ||||
from the album Open Your Box | ||||
Released | 2010 | |||
Genre | Rock, dance | |||
Label | Mind Train, Twisted Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Yoko Ono | |||
Producer(s) | John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jack Douglas | |||
Yoko Ono singles chronology | ||||
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"Give Me Something" was written by Yoko Ono, while the music, like the rest of the songs on Double Fantasy, was produced by John Lennon, Ono, and Jack Douglas.[2] Ono stated in an interview that "Give Me Something" was written as "feeling that I had about society. [...] We’re all getting very cold now as a society."[1] Ono further explained the song's theme of coldness to Spinner: "I remember I was envisioning a gray, cold city with people walking with hands in their pockets and putting the collars of their coats up."[3]
Larry Fitzmaurice from Pitchfork Media described the original version as a "spiky new-wave tune featuring a particularly angry vocal performance," but commented that the Junior Boys "smooth out some of the tune's rougher edges, morphing Ono's cries into elastic bursts and turning the track into a Danceteria-worthy disco jam."[4]
The song became Yoko Ono's fourth consecutive number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club chart.[1]
Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[7] | 1 |
Global Dance Tracks (Billboard)[8] | 27 |
Chart (2010) | Position |
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US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[9] | 23 |