Voulez-vous coucher avec nahhhh…
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Katherine St Asaph: The year is 2039. Climate change apocalypse is encroaching frighteningly fast, but not as fast as the speed at which Beatport producers have taken every extant piece of music and pop culture, no matter how obscure, and put a banging donk on it.
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John Seroff: Okay, nobody’s gonna buy this as a #wokejam but bear with me here. Let’s backtrack to Folamour’s source material, an obscure 1986 Miami party record by Walterio and Horny Gang Productions with the memorable title of “How Funky Can Your Pussy Get.” The original is a wonky slog that climaxes with surprising panache and force in its final minute, but even so this is nobody’s idea of dance floor fodder. What Folamour’s done is to keep the blue notes, the charismatic vivacity of the toasting, and the casually exact spoken rhythms while speeding up, repeating and accentuating the rap’s most absurd lyrics and simultaneously breathing in a blunted springtime house energy. I hear the result as an arched eyebrow at – rather than a celebration of – dumb machismo that honors the heritage of XXX vinyl without drinking too deep of its more boneheaded indulgences. In a year of pop that came jam-packed with misogynism, horrible lyrics, and worse actions, it’s good to hear that silly, high-BPM dirty ditties can still be fun when they’re done right.
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Joshua Minsoo Kim: The underlying house beat is fine, but the lyrics distract from what it’s trying to do. At least the sample source commits to the crassness. Even then, the editing of the vocals is noticeably ineffective, the fast forwarded-sounding bits and the “aaahhhh shit” loop being more amateurish than fun.
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Will Adams: Takes the DJ Assault approach of heightening sex talk to its silliest level, but forgets the fun in the sonic department. The funky house arrangement is a fine start, but while the sample gets raunchier and raunchier, it wears thin.
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Iain Mew: I’m not a fan of lite-jazz-house or of sex jams that mistake crassness for humour. Yet I still think the thoughtless way Folamour combines them does both sides a disservice.
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Juana Giaimo: In the comment section of the the YouTube video, the vocals are discussed a lot: do they ruin the song or are people just overreacting? Whatever your opinion is, everyone agrees that the sex jokes are different from the rest of “Girl with Attitude”. The production sounds very elegant, with a fast house beat, neat brass lines and kind of aquatic keyboards. I actually enjoy the voice because it adds a different texture to the song: it is coarse and has a defiant attitude. However, I don’t want to listen to “How funky can your pussy get?” again and again.
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