It’s about time music videos began taking cues from the Beastie Boys’ “Intergalactic” clip…

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Edward Okulicz: Noisy, dirty and a bit awesome.
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Kat Stevens: Foreign Beggars have been knocking around for donkey’s years but I think this is the first time they’ve made it onto the Radio 1 playlist (and thus the charts). This change in fortune can be attributed to i) Ministry made a ton of cash out of Example and are now able to put their promo money behind any old shit ii) The path-clearing grunt work of the Blackout Crew, who seem to occupy the same rap/donk gritty-committee plane (but More North, obviously). OH MY GOD WHAT IF THEY TEAMED UP :O
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Hazel Robinson: This thinks it’s a bit bigger and more fun than it actually is but that doesn’t cancel out the fact it is big and fun in the first place. The rapping’s not world class and the beat’s not revolutionary but they’ve got the right dose of cohesive confidence and that shark-circle of a bassline does it a world of favours.
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Michaela Drapes: Well, it doesn’t take a genius to see why that ridiculous hook is so catchy, but there’s something about the odd transitions between the verses and chorus that don’t sit right with me; it almost feels unfinished? But I guess that’s only natural for something destined to be remixed to death.
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Ian Mathers: Did they tranquilize the guy from Scooter before getting him to do the hook here? Come back, the rest of Scooter, all is forgiven.
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Anthony Easton: One of those songs I hope they play when we go to the carnival this year. You know, of the genre that is appropriate for the carny to yell “Scream if you wanna go faster” on the Alpine Bob ride. I really, really love the CNE.
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Iain Mew: This is made by the joy taken in the increasingly drawn out calls of “coooome wiiiith it!” — a shortform way of announcing with a showman’s twirl “Here comes a really exciting bit!”. They still have to do enough to live up to their grand introductions of course, but it’s much easier to be convinced that they mostly do.
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Jonathan Bogart: Yes, that is a Batman riddim.
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