It Takes More

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"It Takes More"
ItTakesMore.jpg
Single by Ms. Dynamite
from the album A Little Deeper
B-side "Dynamite"
Released20 May 2002 (2002-05-20)
Length
  • 4:39 (album version)
  • 4:19 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Punch
Ms. Dynamite singles chronology
"It Takes More"
(2002)		"Dy-Na-Mi-Tee"
(2002)

"It Takes More" is a song by British rapper Ms. Dynamite, released as her debut single from her first album, A Little Deeper (2002), on 20 May 2002. It reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, her second-highest-charting song on the chart. The melody is taken from the song "Chitarra romana", a popular Roman song written by C. Bruno (pseudonym of Bruno Cherubini) and Eldo Di Lazzaro in 1934. [1] [ better source needed ]

Contents

Versions

There are two versions that were released, album and radio edit. For the radio edit, Ms. Dynamite re-wrote her lyrics instead of using the censor option. On clean versions of A Little Deeper , a censored version is used, bleeping out inappropriate content. The album version was released on physical UK CD singles.

Track listings

UK CD single [2]

  1. "It Takes More" (Bloodshy main mix)
  2. "Dynamite" (album version)
  3. "It Takes More" (Nash Band mix)

UK 12-inch single and European CD single [3] [4]

  1. "It Takes More" (Bloodshy main mix)
  2. "It Takes More" (Nash Band mix)

UK cassette single [5]

  1. "It Takes More" (clean version)
  2. "Dynamite" (album version)

Australian CD single [6]

  1. "It Takes More" (Bloodshy main mix)
  2. "It Takes More" (Nash Band mix)
  3. "It Takes More" (Nash Band acoustic version)
  4. "It Takes More" (video)

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref(s).
United Kingdom20 May 2002
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 [21] [22]
Australia17 June 2002CD [23]

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  3. ↑ It Takes More (UK 12-inch single sleeve). Ms. Dynamite. Polydor Records, Biggerbeats Records, P Records. 2002. 570 798-1.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ↑ It Takes More (European CD single liner notes). Ms. Dynamite. Polydor Records, Biggerbeats Records, P Records. 2002. 570 844-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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