(Your editor, behind the scenes: “Something called ‘Le Youth’ and Cassie is high-concept, right?”)

[Video][Website]
[6.50]

Jonathan Bogart: Yup, that sure is a remix of Cassie’s “Me & U.” Was I supposed to have any other reaction?
[3]

David Turner: This ain’t nostalgia. It is too soon. The original “Me & U,” produced by Ryan Leslie, had minimal coldness that is here replaced with warm house sounds. I may miss watching Pokemon on Saturday mornings, but I’m not sure I miss grappling with going to a new high school with #nonewfriends. Nostalgia is more fun when it’s far enough for you to have forgotten the sour memories.
[5]

Will Adams: “Cool” rides its Balearic groove well. When the bassline releases itself from the two-note grasp, it’s beautiful. But with the amount that Cassie is sampled here, you would think she’d get some kind of recognition.
[6]

Katherine St Asaph: The gulf between Cassie’s image in the eyes of SoundCloud kids versus those who heard Cassie the first time around, shrugging (that link! 2006! “In Defense of Cassie”!) — or, to be cynical, the gulf between voice fetishists versus people who gave a fuck about Ryan Leslie — gets more hilarious by the day. An objectively competent, trendy-as-fuck house track I can in no way take seriously.
[6]

Anthony Easton: The intro seems simple, but so much is going on. It all seems so effortless that you are almost disappointed when the vocals come in, but they provide a cool reflection to the isolated blacks and greys of the bedrock beat. This might be the most elegant thing I have heard all year.?
[8]

Scott Mildenhall: A vast improvement on its source material, finding invigoration in repetition rather than tedium. It’s just as subtle as “Me & U” but to greater effect; admittedly they serve different purposes, but subtle needn’t mean monotonous.
[8]

Alfred Soto: With the sequencer cutting into the drum track at the right intervals, a vocal as evocative as the title is just what the doctor ordered. 
[7]

Brad Shoup: A series of eager-to-please phrases: altogether they shatter any individual meanings. It’s a Balearic friend request, floating over on an existential bassline. All I ever wanted was to find a way to give a shit about “Me & U”, and it sucks that it happened this way, but….
[9]