The Singles Jukebox

Pop, to two decimal places.

Dominika Mirgova ft. Mafia Corner – Swing

Are those Robin Thicke’s pants?


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Jonathan Bogart: Umpteenth-generation photocopy of the “We No Speak Americano” template, this time from Slovakia, with slightly more steroidal EDM than the average and as little sampled ragtime piano and swing clarinet as they can get away with. Mirgova’s the best part, a warm voice that invites you to a party that turns out to be a lot less fun than she promises.
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Alfred Soto: Like Nellie McKay doing “Call Me Maybe” at the karaoke bar, this Eastern European vamps more than swings, which is perfect: this is a karaoke bar in the Omaha Courtyard Marriott.
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Iain Mew: The reference to “Call Me Maybe” is telling. “Swing” may appear at first to be a novelty retro dance record with drops that barely hit, but that’s just trappings which can’t get quite in the way of its core of sweet teenpop, to which Mirgova’s bright vocals are perfectly suited.
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Anthony Easton: This doesn’t swing as much as it pounces–even the piano vamps in ways that seem more Viperish than they do as pure swing. I am actually wondering what it offers the track at all. 
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Scott Mildenhall: For a song that promises swing in the most Ronseal of ways, this is pretty light on the stuff. It’s a bit of a hodgepodge. Normally the swing part of electro swing isn’t just tacked on, but focal. Parov Stelar must hear this, more “EDM” swing than anything, and hear nothing but sad trombone. He shouldn’t worry though, it’s catchy, and fun — and fun is what it’s all about, right Parov? It’s no Doop, it’s not some kind of “My Nie Hovoriť Slovenský” (if you can be bothered to Google Translate that), it’s not even a Gramophonedzie, but at this moment — pi-pi-pa-ra-pa-pam — it’s alright enough.
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Brad Shoup: I was all set to write this off as another pop star reaching for that jitterbug brass ring, but that chorus goes to some stirring places. Even the swingier parts are redeemed by a direct, fully inhabited vocal performance. Linking the shuffle of ancient jazz and modern pop is still a gimmick, but achieving weightlessness never goes out of fashion.
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