And for the length of this track, it’s date night at the Jukebox.

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Anthony Easton: There are bits of this that are didactic, and there are bits that are rhetorical, and the bit where the direct question replaced with a kind of cotton candy vocalizings seems light enough, but the sound floats away with my interest. It also has the trick of being too long and not earning cutting off so suddenly. Extra point for the handclaps. 
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Micha Cavaseno: OK, OK, where is Kehlani’s manager, so I can slap this individual? Look, this girl is an excellent total package artist who I could see either being an excellent B-List or A-List artist, depending on marketing, luck, radio, or all those other factors that have nothing to do with talent. What can impede her, are albatrosses. She’s already affiliated with the team of empty brown paper bag brains that are the HBK Gang, and now she’s gotten the moldy ‘grown man suspenders swag’ of BJ the Chicago Kid and his nagging tone he dug out of his grand-uncles attic, mothballs and all cluttering her way. “Down For You” contains great songwriting and singing from its star, and Kehlani is ready. Let her shine.
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Megan Harrington: Kehlani sounds fresh, in ways both good and bad. There’s an unfinished greeness to “Down For You” that isn’t exactly remedied by the unusally slack BJ the Chicago Kid. Though he can usually be counted on to add deeply spiritual emotional theatrics, he’s subsumed here by an airy aimlessness. That’s the bad. To her great credit, Kehlani sounds youthful without resorting to the ever popular breathy baby voice. Much more than certain over-praised histrionic vocalists, Kehlani reminds me of early Mariah Carey. She’s sun-kissed and romantic, ready for her Boyz II Men. 
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Will Adams: “I’m down” quickly became one of my least favorite expressions after too many spring breaks with friends spent sitting around suggesting things to do only to be met with a flat utterance of those dreaded two words. “Down For You” is candy-sweet R&B that’s easy enough to like, but hearing the artists’ ambivalent proposals to go see a movie in the wrong setting quickly turns the song into an endless loop of this.
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Brad Shoup: So much lushness in service of such little return.
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Katherine St Asaph: The exact musical correlative for that clumsy, blissed-out mutual blush that happens during all dates that are going somewhere, that single ungainly moment of relief and rush and returned crush, with a low thrum of frisson beneath to keep the stakes at (so to speak) hand.
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Thomas Inskeep: Sublime slow-burning R&B of the Jhene Aiko school, with Kehlani talk-singing and BJ the Chicago Kid doing the same, making for a frankly tidy love duet. They sell it so well, I believe every word.
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Edward Okulicz: The song makes all the right noises (especially that twinkling piano that punctuates the track), but these two have zero chemistry. “What’s love that doesn’t keep you up all night?” they both ask, as if neither comprehend the question let alone the answer..
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