Aommy – Shake
Where else would you find fans of the Vengaboys, Italo disco and The Knife? In Thailand, apparently…
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Alfred Soto: An Italo disco and house hybrid with demented vocals? See ya on the floor.
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Thomas Inskeep: Production from a Vengaboys single paired with a tinny, unpleasantly pitched vocal; I needn’t ever hear this again.
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Cassy Gress: One of the most obnoxious songs I’ve heard in a long while, from Aommy’s squeaky, pitch-adjacent vocals to the 1992-era drums and orchestra hits.
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Iain Mew: I don’t want to guess at whether the cheap synth surges were set up as a response to Aommy’s vocal style or if she sings so harshly because it’s what fits. It’s a bracing combination, and not an immediately obvious one for sweeping disco, but actually that genre choice provides the light and shade to keep the forcefulness thrilling, if not for every repeat.
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Adaora Ede: The bizarre fitness sexy video (watch at your own risk) reminds me of other Asian pop sensation Jolin Tsai’s “Play”, but the cheaply employed Eurodance beat and dated synth stabs/bleeps dilute the fierceness in Aommy’s chirping vocal.
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Katie Gill: This is Ariana Grande sexiness: sexiness that’s so ridiculous that goes back to not really being sexy. Aommy’s voice is cartoonish in the sense that she literally sounds like a cartoon character. That beat sounds like it was reused from a 1990s video game. Add in a video which tries it’s hardest to sell you on how sexy Aommy is and you get an end product that’s a little too tryhard.
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Tim de Reuse: An alternate-reality version of The Knife reincarnated into an energetic, squeaky Thai pop act. It’s a good premise, but unfortunately it’s executed half as weird and twice as long as it should be.
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I love that Cassy and I said pretty much the same thing in completely different ways. :)
high-five!