The road to OneRepublic is paved with good intentions.
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Iain Mew: I haven’t cared for anything they’ve done, but credit to them for realizing that “Counting Stars” would work just as well transformed by ridiculous miniature EDM drops.
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Alfred Soto: Maroon 5 for hootenannies with keyboards.
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Ramzi Awn: I played with matches as a kid, too. Only I didn’t sound so much like Maroon 5. Boring never sounded so festive.
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Thomas Inskeep: This is the sound of Maroon 5 gang-banging Imagine Dragons.
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Scott Mildenhall: Some people might think that being signed and managed by a company that runs so much of the UK radio market that it was forced to sell some of it off could be a hindrance, but they’re very hard to find. On this showing Lawson’s sound has been updated about as drastically as the Heart playlist, but that chug is tried, tested and liable to produce brilliance. This Bo Diddley angle isn’t exactly dynamic, but the lyrics are easy to ignore, and touches like the move into warp speed during the breakdown do prevent it from being an outright pastiche, as if that were an issue.
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Micha Cavaseno: More tedious #AMERICANA (knew we weren’t out of the woods yet), with hammy pop production and a Patrick Stump style “soulful” whine. I can’t hit this with enough “NAUH” through a keyboard.
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