Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Kat DeLuna ft. Jeremih – What a Night

And this isn’t an interpolation of that Four Se… oh, it is. Sigh.


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Katherine St Asaph: As if I weren’t already unable to keep Kat DeLuna, Kat Graham and Kat Dahlia straight, now the first one’s gone and completely ripped off Natalie La Rose. Also, I hate “Oh, What a Night.”
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Jer Fairall: As lazy interpolations of overdone hooks go, Jeremih has the charisma to nearly pull this one off, though the quoting yet another famous hook alongside it stretches whatever flimsy credibility this may have had to begin with. I don’t detect much of a personality from the star performer here, but she and her featured guest at least appear to be having a good time.
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Anthony Easton: Couldn’t they afford the sample of the Four Seasons? Because not getting to those high notes must be a little bit embarrassing. 
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Micha Cavaseno: Ratchet/R&Bass has admittedly been diluted in the end of the last year, unsurprisingly in a rush to duplicate the success of “Fancy” and resulting in the genre’s saturation publicly. However, it’s beginning to feel like even the experiments are starting to run out of steam. After all, Jeremih doing party karaoke over this kind of production has been done to greater effect on “Don’t Tell ‘Em,” and Kat DeLuna relying on a pre-existing gimmick for a single isn’t going to do her any favors.
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Alfred Soto: Self-parody, right? “Jeremih, you can sing ‘Oh, What a Night,’ it’ll be great, the kids’ll love it. You’re good at these hooks.”
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Scott Mildenhall: Jeremih’s right: let’s party like its 1999, with cans of tinned food in the corner for fear of impending apocalypse. It would make sense: in this latest edition of Jeremih Sings the Old-Time Hits! he ploughs right ahead, possibly as if part of some end-of-millennium retrospective, but perhaps also an end-of-civilisation one, and when that time eventually comes, he will be fully prepared, armed with all the choruses he can carry. That said, forget ’99, ’63 and ’75 — what this guy needs is ’81 and 45; that’s Stars on 45, or more precisely his version of it: all the hooks, all the Mustard, and he wouldn’t even have to make do with a negligible feature credit.
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Cassy Gress: I’m not incredibly partial to the Four Seasons, but my gut sank as soon as I heard that bass and realized what this was going to be. Jeremih sounds about 15 years old, and Kat deLuna inexplicably uses “I’m that chick” instead of “I’m that bitch.” It’s not that I actively want songs to be more obscene, but the clipped way she says “chick” makes it stand out more, and she sings it twice in the same verse. Between the two of them it sounds like a Kidz Bop cover, and that helium yelping isn’t helping.
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Brad Shoup: This is some cut-rate shit. Could they not afford the payoff? 
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Will Adams: Okay, so the logic on this dud probably went something like, “Remember that one time Jeremih sang a tiny snippet of a classic song and it was a pretty big hit? Let’s do that again! But this time let’s interpolate even less of the song. Like, literally the bare minimum of a signifier that listeners can latch on to. Then the song will be, like, 95% done already!” I’m sure at the time it seemed like a wonderful idea to them.
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