<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> "Lose My Breath" is an uptempo R&B and Dance - pop song with elements of dancehall music . It is performed with a brightdance beat and a tempo of 120 beats per minute . The song is set in common time, composed in the key of E ♭ major with the vocal elements spanning from the low note of C to the high note of D . The band members' vocals in "Lose My Breath" were described as "breathy". The song features fast snare drum sequences, choppy beats with hand - clappy percussion, cymbal crashes, and itchy hi - hats, creating a military sound reminiscent to a drumline of a marching band . The opening drum sequence is sampled from the drumline of "Taps" performed by the University of Michigan Marching Band . Synthesizer blips are also utilized in the song's melody . Along with those instruments, the complex backing track of the song uses various sound effects such as ripple of claps, stomps, thumps, snare rolls, and gasps . </P> <P> Lyrically, the female protagonists challenge their male "suitors" to keep up instead of being full of empty promises; the women further feel that "He's not fulfilling you like he says". Williams further explained the meaning of the song during an interview with MTV News, "We've had experiences with men doing a lot of talking but they can't back it up . You said you could do this, but you can't, whether that's on the dance floor or wherever else . He said what he could do for you, but ..." The lyrics are constructed in the chorus - verse pattern . The song opens with the lines "Hit me" and the first verses sung by Beyoncé follow: "I put it right there made it easy for you to get to / Now you want to act like you don't know what to do". The chorus follows during which the group repeatedly sings the lines "Can you keep up?". Rowland's second verses follow where she sings the lines "Put it on me deep in the right direction". The chorus is repeated twice before the bridge by Williams . After the bridge, the group sings the lines "Here's your papers, baby you are dismissed" letting their man know that he is not good enough for them . Rowland sings a short ad lib, and then the trio ends with a repeated chorus . Nick Reynolds from BBC compared the song Missy Elliott's "Pass That Dutch" and to songs by The Supremes . He further found a name check of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise". Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine also compared "Lose My Breath with "Pass That Dutch". </P> <P> Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone referred to "Lose My Breath" a "sweat - soaked" track and a "percussive sex romp" where Destiny's Child "pant in time to a marching - band beat ." Nick Reynolds of the BBC called the military drumming of the "fantastic" track "exciting" and its keyboard stabs "nasty". A writer for Vibe hailed it as a "pounding, animalistic piece of music--as urgent as a war cry" with a "thunderous tribal beat". In an album review of Destiny Fulfilled, Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly felt that "Lose My Breath" opened the record with "a brisk enough start" and concluded, "While it's no' Bootylicious,' it's got more nervous energy and verve than almost anything else here .". A writer of Billboard magazine felt that the song was "love's exhilarating start". Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times described it as "suitably calisthenic". AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine considered the song to be an album highlight . Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine called the song a "thigh - snapper" and said it responsible for the "increased use of paradiddling drumsticks as sex toys". Barbara Ellen of The Observer felt that "Lose My Breath" was "of the exemplary standard" of the band's previous albums, Survivor and The Writing's on the Wall . In his review, Alex MacPherson of Stylus Magazine chose the song as one of the album's best and wrote, </P>

Destiny's child - lose my breath (video)