Friday, July 10th, 2009

Booty Luv – Say It

Affordable as ever…



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Hillary Brown: Fine then: “While your song is fairly catchy and not actively aggravating, it is, in the end, kind of vanilla.”
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Martin Skidmore: Yes, it’s kind of basic, even crude, but it’s fun all the way, and danceable, and kind of punchy and entirely likeable. No one would claim the girls are great singers, but I find them endearing.
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Jessica Popper: After the decline of Big Brovaz and their disastrous Eurovision attempt, it was great to see the girls go on to both poptastic aceness and success with Booty Luv. I think “Some Kinda Rush” is still their best song, but “Say It” is a close contender. This deserves to be one of the big dance hits of summer 2009.
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Alex Ostroff: They’re no Cascada, but Booty Luv make serviceable second-tier Eurotrash. Still, after Shakira’s man-eating assertiveness, and RichGirl’s shameless pursuit of strange, it’s depressing to be reminded that much dance pop presents women as anonymous and submissive. “Be a man”? “Bring me down on my knees”? *sigh* To paraphrase Chris Rock, I love dance pop, but it’s hard to defend this shit. That said, “If the beat is right, we will dance all night.” Noxious? Perhaps, but grudgingly, it’s at least a…
[6]

Chuck Eddy: Why so serious? You sound ridiculous. Oh wait, you sort of already said that yourselves! Really don’t get how this run-of-the-mill r&b hackwork is “pop-house,” though, unless “house” now just means some barely detectable residue of a beat. (To me, “pop-house” still equals Ten City and Robin S. Though I’m aware that probably makes me no different than sticks-in-the-mud who don’t believe Kenny Chesney should count as country.)
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Edward Okulicz: I love how this is essentially a cheesy R&B track that steals cheesy house’s most base, obvious tricks – sirens! – and delivers it with the most cloying grin of pop. And it’s a dangerously catchy tune on top of that…
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Jonathan Bradley:I think Hilary Duff rejected this chorus back in 2006. The three points are, if you’re keeping score at home, for the three siren noises that pop up halfway through.
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Anthony Miccio: It shouldn’t be surprising that an act named “Booty Luv” connects more in the beat’n’hook department than through personality. According to Wikipedia, all their UK dance #1s are covers of other artists’ dance remixes, reaffirming that the anonymous festivity here – certainly fun enough to keep the brand alive – is probably intentional.
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Michaelangelo Matos: Robo-pop from England–not unpleasant, not memorable, not worth turning off, not worth searching out.
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One Response to “Booty Luv – Say It”

  1. Had the same 5/10 “bleh, who cares” reaction to this original as most of you, but the Crazy Cousinz remix is seriously awesome.