The Singles Jukebox

Oh mah gawd they’re back agai-een…

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[6.91]

Alex Macpherson: Nina Sky have one default mode – a vague, yearning drift which enables them to make even single-line pottymouth choruses like “I’m on some bullshit, fuck what ya heard” sounds impossibly pretty. Luckily, it’s an irresistible one, and it’s the reason why what seems like a trifle initially proves somewhat addictive over several plays. The wonderfully restless backing helps, too: insectile beats twitch and scurry, starburst synths twinkle and every so often, whooshing sounds arc across the beat like planes in the desert sky.
[7]

Dave Moore: For a group that’s been waiting for a proper solo release as long as Nina Sky (whom I didn’t know I knew already from “Oye Mi Canto”), this is kind of disappointing, a passable but unremarkable album-filler-ish track whose most notable feature is not just one but two radio-unfriendly words in the chorus (shock!). What would they even call the radio edit?
[4]

Al Shipley: Maybe I’m just a sucker for pretty girls talking dirty, but I’ll never get tired of R&B songs that take not just the sound but also the explicit vocabulary from hip hop.
[6]

Martin Kavka: Can I be the first to vote this the song of the summer? It makes me feel old: does “I’m on some bullshit” mean that the Nina Sky twins are lying when they’re dissing this guy? Does it mean that their bullshit detectors have gone off on what the guy is saying? It makes me feel young: it must be the woodblock in the percussion track. It makes me want to hide behind my public poses. It makes me want to call everyone out and myself for hiding. It makes me want to grow up.
[10]

David Raposa: The bullshit, in this case, being some electro Lisette Melendez freestyle tip that’s both unexpected and totally fantastic. It doesn’t sound like what most folks remember from Nina Sky, but since it’s been FOUR GODDAMN YEARS since “Move Ya Body,” that’s to be expected. If anything, I’d say this is much, much better.
[9]

Briony Edwards: Anyone who references YouTube in their lyrics deserves heralding and reprimanding in equal measure. Nina Sky get away with it because this song delivers on so many other levels. Their voices are wonderful, and the harmonies sad, meaning the whole thing retains a very strong sense of melancholy which reverberates through the whole track. Plus, it kind of sounds like the Spice Girl’s “Viva Forever”, which will never be a bad thing.
[8]

Edward Okulicz: Not as bad as it wants to be or as good as it should be; forceful wasn’t these girls’ forte, and while I can’t expect everything they do to have their old hit’s effortless hypnotism, this tries three times as hard and achieves one third as much.
[4]

Ian Mathers: Wait, I’m confused – is it her (them?) or him that is on some of the titular bullshit? And what is it that we’ve heard that we are supposed to fuck? That she’s on some bullshit, or that she still has feelings for him, or what? Ah, who cares. That was a good drum break. It’s so nice to have them back.
[8]

Additional Scores

Hillary Brown: [5]
Michaelangelo Matos: [6]
Martin Skidmore: [9]