“Both Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" and Kelis' "Caught Out There" make use of negative space to create tension. In the former, Timbaland's production leaves pockets of silence to give the tune its infectiously stuttering feel, while the Neptunes' start-and-stop beat in the latter adds gut-shot color to Kelis' pack-your-shit invectives. Leave it to post-dubstep whiz kid James Blake to fuse both”
