David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj – Turn Me On
Nothing like a double shot of Nicki to start your Friday morning…
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Alfred Soto: Not with that shouting and choice of producer.
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Iain Mew: Strongly disguising Nicki Minaj for all but fifteen seconds at the end of your uninspired dance pop does at least make those fifteen seconds sound really exciting by comparison.
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John Seroff: Whatever perceptible heat remains in “Turn Me On” is little more than residual warmth from the copy machine. Nicki lends little more than her name and Guetta is absolutely in cruise control. Utterly seamless, like a Twinkie.
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Katherine St Asaph: The precise sound of club desperation, between the plea of a melody repeated so often there’s no way anyone’s listening, to Nicki Minaj thinking she ever needs to sing on a Guetta track, to “I’m too young to die,” the polar opposite of Lana that ends up there anyway.
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Sabina Tang: Possibly the intentional opposite of “Stupid Hoe.” You can tell perfectly well it’s Nicki Minaj belting it out like an anonymous house diva for hire, so for 70 per cent of the song you’re sitting there like, is she… going to… do… stuff…? And she does rap, eventually, for like two lines. There doesn’t seem to be much of a point otherwise. Sonically, it’s all right, but I’ve yet to discern a point in Guetta at all, so no spoiler there.
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Alex Ostroff: This doesn’t inspire the gut feeling of revulsion I get from the standard Guetta tricks, which is as good a start as any. The lyrics have this weird drifting metaphor that starts off with Nicki needing her boy to be a doctor who eventually morphs into superhero and then maybe a mad scientist. In this context, “make me come alive, come on and turn me on” would make for a magnificent music video, but she’s already done the Bride of Frankenstein thing on SNL. We don’t nearly get enough rapping on “Turn Me On,” especially in comparison to the last Guetta/Minaj collaboration, but that opening synth figure is almost subtle and the chorus is infinitely better than Flo Rida’s, so it pretty much evens out.
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Michaela Drapes: Nicki Minaj and her multiple personalities are “feeling weird”? You don’t say! Honestly, I’ll take her any way she wants to be packaged: rapping alter egos, Eurotrash Love Parade diva, alternate-reality Cyndi Lauper — it matters not. As long as she continues to effectively drown out Beyoncé and Gaga and Rihanna and Katy Perry, I’m happy.
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Brad Shoup: She whips from an undefined melancholy to some kind of angry challenge in the chorus, neither of which is a look Guetta can get from Taio. But Taio would have a dude to handle saying “I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I.”
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Josh Langhoff: If David Guetta came up to me and said, “You wanna completely suppress your vibrant personality and appear on one of my tracks?” I’d probably take him up on it. Nothing to lose except money. What’s the equivalent for those of us who are not hilarious Harajuku goddesses? James Patterson asking one of us to ghostwrite? His chapters are so short, I bet you get a real sense of accomplishment.
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