The Singles Jukebox

A team-up we’re a little lukewarm on…

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Juana Giaimo: Lately I feel that artists are putting the least amount of effort into their reggaeton songs: a fast beat, some autotune, repeating the pre-chorus twice, reggae piano chords, the expected lyrics about romantic encounters, and of course, saying their own names out loud at the end of the track. A few years ago, it seemed reggaeton was going to revolutionize the whole world. Now, most times it sounds plain and too comfortable — maybe because the amount of views shows that they have nothing to worry about.
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Alfred Soto: Although “Don’t Turn Around” peeks around the corner and says hi, “Miénteme” has more generic scores to settle: reggaeton as spotless as a glass table awaiting coke. 
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Tim de Reuse: I’d expect that a tune with this melancholy of a concept would have something melancholy in its execution to match, but its squeaky-clean instrumental doesn’t have much of a personality at all, other than the strangest snare drum I’ve ever heard in Latin American pop: a low smack on the side of a trash can, excruciatingly stereo-wide, simultaneously too dry and distractingly breathy. It has been five minutes since the last time I listened to the song, and it is the only thing I remember about it with any fidelity.
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Leah Isobel: The slowed-down chorus up front that leads into the real one is a great trick, and foreshadows the rest of the song: it builds momentum through slight shifts within repetition. By the time it gets to the final verse, the stuttered “que no im-, que no im-, que no importa” feels like explosive payoff. This is more down to the song’s structure than its singers, who come off a little anonymous.
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Nortey Dowuona: So usually I do my little impressionist schtick, but this is just so boring I cannot bring myself to do it. TINI has a sweet voice though.
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John S. Quinn-Puerta: The melody is so repetitive and the instrumental so sparse that I found less than three minutes feeling like five. There’s clearly some charisma there, but it would’ve been served more by better music. 
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