AQUACK THE BLOCK!!!

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Will Adams: It seems that until the end of time, Far East Movement will reappear every couple of months to remind you that you forgot they existed, then remind you why you forgot they existed (spoiler: they make the Black Eyed Peas sound like Wordsworth). That constant is comforting, but the Bingo Players’ original instrumental is still a watery, honking mess clearly vying to be the hidden track on a Jock Jams compilation.
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Scott Mildenhall: September 2012: the Far East Movement are at a crazy house party. The crew are hella wavy, pumping the volume as they feel the bass — generally just doing their thang. They’re celebrating the dissolution of LMFAO. “Finally,” they think, “we can take our rightful place as kings of the perfunctory comedy rap scene”. Bingo Players’ 2011 instrumental “Rattle” comes on. They like what they hear. They check, then are delighted that the word “bottles” does indeed still rhyme with “models.” They think of some more words. Four months later, they take advantage of a low sales period to storm to the UK number one spot with the resultant cut and shut. Wizard Sleeve and Foreign Beggars, also in attendance at the party, grit their teeth.
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Crystal Leww: Are Far East Movement still trying to ride the success of “Like A G6”? Time to let it go.
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Patrick St. Michel: Remember that one time Far East Movement stumbled into a song that had fantastic bass, instead of a track with cheesy bass that was a club staple like three years ago… and whistling? Man, these guys have shit luck.
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Anthony Easton: I no longer wish to feel any bass, or any song that is self conscious about how much bass it has, or any song that works bass as a metaphor for some kind of sexuality. If this didn’t have the whistling it would be completely useless. 
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: After listening to “Get Up”, I realized something about Far East Movement’s material. They are not a terrific act, and their big sell-out moment was tainted by the fact they got murdered by the Ke$ha-alike handling the chorus, but they are an act that understands how groups are supposed to sound. They understand how their similar-sounding vocals should play off each other. They sound like a unit. However, “Get Up” wipes this all away, highlighting their flaws as performers by denying them the ability to gather much in the way of chemistry. But could anyone have salvaged Bingo Players’ vuvuzela-stripper arenamess? I imagined Danny Brown rapping over this and getting away with it, but I do that with most songs to be honest.
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Sabina Tang: The instrumental “Rattle” is a basic bit of brutal business, designed to get the moshpit going. Far East Movement don’t enliven or deepen the original, but neither do they ruin it à la Dizzee’s tell-tell-tell-and-no-show exercise — there’s not much there to ruin. (Video-wise, I was very emotionally involved in the ducks’ quest for revenge; they exacted a spine-tingling price worthy of Monte Cristo.)
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Iain Mew: The video is so wasted on this lukewarm non-bosh when Watch the Duck exist.
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Brad Shoup: A wack club song that’s about nothing more than its own existence. Note but don’t credit them for distilling a ton of pop tropes (drinking, leaving with your girl, retro-futurism, always being famous, THE BASS, doing shots, partying ’til morning, globetrotting) to their essences.
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Ian Mathers: At some point, “party” slipped from a thing that people do sometimes into, I don’t know… a metaphysical category? Songs about partying stopped having even tacit acknowledgement that partying is in fact a release from the (often times) drudgery of the rest of life and started acting like sheer force of will or swag could turn it into the default state of life. At it’s best, when that approach works, it makes for ridiculous/wonderful pop music. This is not that approach at its best. Nice Night of the Lepus–style video, though.
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Alfred Soto: It does get up, and it does rattle, but I’ve heard bingo games with more enthused shouting, and Asian restaurants in strip malls more Far East.
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