The Singles Jukebox

Yes, please tell us, Rosie.

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[4.29]

Cassy Gress: I’m not 100% sure who is singing this, but whoever it is sounds like Carol Channing without the “sh” sounds on her s’s. I would love to hear this exact song with someone else singing whose voice wasn’t so cloying and distracting because I love how sunny those guitars and stray glockenspiel hits are in the chorus.
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Ryo Miyauchi: I hear two different songs, one on top of the other: a well-meaning yet washed-up faux-indie demo on top of a simple yet promising meta-dance-floor bop. Is there a way I can hear the latter without the former? Or just maybe with a different voice?
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A.J. Cohn: This song is so immature on every level — like, tell her yourself, dude. Also: “Music is my best friend” — really? But its hint of guileless charm makes me, almost, want to keep dancing.
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Iain Mew: I appreciate the strings and scratchy vocal filter that put this in a slightly different different emotional place to most stuff that it sounds like. Still, “music is my best friend” is just a starting point of an idea that goes sadly unexplored (one possible route for expansion).
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Alfred Soto: Twice l listened to hear if it transcended the novelty of a Buggles-esque vocal filter.
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Adaora Ede: The multimodulity captured in Farben’s folksy-dance pop production makes for a decent first listen even when navigating between guitar/piano riffs and muted semi-DROPS. The cynosure of this song IS the instrumentation, to sum it up. Although “Please Tell Rosie” conveys the ardor that I would expect from a midsize music festival that mostly high schoolers would frequent (that shoutable chorus! those indie singer in the kitchen vocals!), the song behaves pleasantly and predictably enough.
[5]

Scott Mildenhall: But for its revelation that Asaf Avidan has bred with ET, this is unexceptional sunshine-in-sepia fare. It’s a moment of good fortune when, with a sudden burst into the chorus, the producers accidentally switch colour filters to something more bright, but they soon right it into a straw-hat shade of brown.
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