The Singles Jukebox

Don’t tell’em we might prefer this one.

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Crystal Leww: If “Don’t Tell ‘Em” is that summer night that you met that boy who loved 90s records in the club, “Planes” fast-forwards through time to find you deeply free-falling for that boy in the freezing of winter. You are deeply infatuated by the boy who whispers nice things and treats you well, who stays the night and makes plans. You make coffee and oatmeal for him in the morning. He remembers to buy you gifts from the trips he takes. You drink wine together. It is not yet love, but you wish it could be someday.
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Luisa Lopez: 2015 is not gonna get any funnier than J. Cole’s verse. 
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Josh Winters: Those few sweet seconds of Jeremih’s falsetto are the true aerodynamic pleasure. The rest is like a red eye on a clear night: a pitch-black ride without much unsteady movement or variation. Well, not entirely pleasant with J. Cole present.
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Alfred Soto: Here they go, playing verbal grab-ass again, with Jeremih in the Miguel role.
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Micha Cavaseno: Jeremih has established a body of work that people care about him who wouldn’t have given him enough of a care back when he was coming out. He uses that deserved credibility to release a middling single, the kind of stuff I expect Late Nights would’ve been populated with. J. KOLL — one of the world’s least charismatic humans ever who keeps being mistakenly placed on R&B songs (how can you want to see a man who always looks like Dick Dastardly in the face tell you anything about you?). If this is what Jeremih’s dropping an album is going to sound like, maybe he needs to go back to the drawing board.
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Josh Love: I’m not sure whether to sigh or laugh at the wild incongruity of this song’s utterly lovely production and utterly lame rhymes. Both aspects are aiming for seduction but only Vinylz’s synths get there. Meanwhile, J. Cole sticks his foot in his mouth by likening it to his dick.
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Ian Mathers: Okay, I mostly like Jeremih and J. Cole here, but between his work here and the two tracks on the new Drake if Vinylz wanted to put out a beat tape I would be hugely appreciative. If somebody wanted to make a YouTube video with the instrumental here on loop for ten hours, I would leave that shit rolling.
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