The Singles Jukebox

Former SNSD member makes an anachronistic TRL bid…

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Juana Giaimo: The reason I love Tiffany’s solo EP was because of how she played with delicacy. “Over My Skin” is the opposite of that. Her voice tries for soulfulness, as if she was Christina Aguilera, but falls flat, while the production full of percussion noises and short loops resembles Pharrell but lacks something special to make me move my feet. By trying to show off, the music shows less. 
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Alfred Soto: The fake grime covering this Far East Movement production, the horn chart conjure, and Tiffany Young’s lustrous needs conjure Christina Aguilera circa “Ain’t No Other Man,” albeit more convincingly than Aguilera did herself. If I believed in Songs of the Summer, I wouldn’t have minded “Over My Skin” as a multi-format smash back in late May or early June.
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Nortey Dowuona: Lurching, spotty bass, distant percussion, and loping drums are stopped by Tiffany’s confident, authoritative croon. Warm, Nolan-esque synths pop up, and she pops them as live drums and soaring horns leap over, before she swipes them out of the sky and spreads them across the room, sprouting trees everywhere.
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Iain Mew: The title’s reversal of “under my skin” offers a wealth of possibilities: psychological, creepy, sensual, some combination. Instead of taking up any of them, it becomes a banal statement of desire. It’s in keeping with a song that can’t see past doing both Britney and Christina without getting under the surface of either.
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Katherine St Asaph: Down to the slightly off title, this could have been a decent, if trying-extremely-hard, second-string pop single in 2001 — not quite a Britney or Christina, but a solid Eden’s Crush.
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Alex Clifton: “Over My Skin” sounds like a vintage Christina Aguilera track, but without the over-singing or ten thousand vocal runs. Moreover, it’s upbeat — I keep looking for fun songs this year that distract from the rest of the world, but pop is so sad and slow these days that songs like this feel like an increasing rarity. Like all the best bubblegum songs, I immediately want to replay this fifteen times in a row, so clearly Tiffany’s doing something right.
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Anna Suiter: Tiffany’s sound’s different from what it was when she was just Tiffany instead of Tiffany Young. This definitely doesn’t feel like a “Korean pop song” either, and not just because it isn’t in English. It’s obvious she wants to head in a different direction, but she doesn’t have anything to quite carry her there yet. But there’s always time!
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