The Singles Jukebox

Diamond Platnumz is back, and this time with a friend…

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Jonathan Bradley: Last time we heard from Diamond Platnumz, he was an easygoing and convivial host; this song, however, produced with fellow Tanzanian AY, is made for the club, and so is darker and more sensuous. It doesn’t crest, but allows its charms to creep up in their own due course. I am not impervious to them.
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Alfred Soto: I’m not sure the Auto-Tune was necessary, but this Tanzanian star has better flow than Flo Rida and better rhythmic sense. I wasn’t expecting the stop-start percussion.
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Brad Shoup: It’s close enough to reggaeton to trump Yandel at this own game: restrained confidence, faded flash. All over a steadily churning traqck with a Carribean xylophone motif, and all without a break. 
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Cassy Gress: I like the marimba riff and drum groove, but only for about two minutes. By the time we get to the three-minute mark, I’m getting bored, and that’s right about the point where the beat starts cutting out. And it feels less like a pause to build tension, or something to amp up the song; it sounds like somebody accidentally unplugged the mixer.
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Jonathan Bogart: There were already luxurious expanses of space in the production before the middle eight, where the track stops dead three times as though to test how long a body can fill the missing beats for before the rhythm gets you again.
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Madeleine Lee: Every element here is present in just the right amount: beat, melodic variation, shimmery decorative bits, Auto-Tune, and, especially in those three sudden stops, fun.
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