The Singles Jukebox

And I’m gonna play it, been so long, I forgot how to turn it up…

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Juana Giaimo: Mickey Guyton has released another “I’m over you” song, but this time there is no sentimentality like in “Better Than You Left Me”. Instead, she says she is doing perfectly fine without him, but she is so insistent about it that her words and the upbeat tone come off rather defensive. I can believe Sia when she says she is swinging on a chandelier because her voice transmits the power of being free. Mickey Guyton’s voice is still too safe for me to believe it.
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Alfred Soto: She enjoys a “martini twist” — right on, let’s party. The arrangement is a night at home dancing in front of the computer, not a party: light synthesized clatter with which Maren Morris and even, god, Dierks Bentley triumphed a few months ago. Guyton could sing, but you wouldn’t know it.
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Katie Gill: I desperately want to love this. But for a beautiful kiss-off song, I wish it was either louder or less sedate. The instrumentation is so muted and calm that it comes off as a little bit sad. Country music’s got a long list of kiss-off songs from “My Give a Damn’s Busted” to “Before He Cheats” that are loud, raucous and fun, unlike this slight sleeper.
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Olivia Rafferty: Guyton may be in her car with the bass turned up, but she’s driving right down the middle of the road with this one. It’s a softcore Katy Perry number, but the lyrical concept of throwing a “hate party” makes me smirk. Come on, “Hate Party” would be a great name for a breakup single. Someone get on that, please.
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Ryo Miyauchi: Mickey’s try at a meta-song in the beginning is a little flat: a response is not worth her time, and she even admits so herself. But she mines that “so moved on” attitude for a better, more playful second half that owns up to her independence with panache. She packs a lot of satisfying last words to the conversation in the chorus — “overrated, overplayed, and I’m OK” gets me rewinding — so hopefully this is truly the last of it.
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Thomas Inskeep: Attempts to be a Swift/Ballerini-style “girl power” getting-over-you kiss-off to a guy, but it’s too cute by more than half and the pop-country production is weak. “Better Than You Left Me” showed that Guyton, who’s still on the rise, can do better than this, and hopefully she will again.
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