Template:Song/Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
| Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded track listing | |
| "Pound the Alarm" is track number 11. | |
| Previous track "Starships" |
Next track "Whip It" |
"Pound the Alarm" is a song from Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded album, originally released on April 2, 2012. It was produced by RedOne, Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub, who also produced Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded's lead single, "Starships". It will be released in the UK on July 9, 2012 as the next single.
Composition
"Pound the Alarm" is a Eurodance song produced by RedOne, Falk, and Rami. The song makes use of electronic dance, techno, and house-pop in its composition, while also being influenced by rave. After each chorus there is a "frantic" dance and dubstep breakdown, and also features the sounds of alarms, weaving beats, and "seize-the-night" lyrics.
Criticial reception
"Pound the Alarm" has received mixed reviews from music critics, with some comparing it to the albums lead single "Starships". Andrew Unterberger of Popdust gave the song an unfavourable review, and compared it to works of Jennifer Lopez, Taio Cruz, The Black Eyed Peas, and Beyonce. Billboard editor Andrew Hampp gave the song a negative review, calling it a "Starships sound-alike" and saying the only difference is that "Nicki does a little bit more singing than she does on her current single, but otherwise the two tracks are virtually indistinguishable. Even the chorus is a rewrite." Entertainment Weekly gave a positive review by describing the song as "The perfect trunk rattler to blast from your pink Barbie Bentley, with booming synths that build to a brain-numbing epiphany: 'Music. Makes Me. High.'”