The Singles Jukebox

Bad news for Sean Paul of YoungBloodZ…

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Ian Mathers: Even knowing the sample source (and I do appreciate how it’s been stripped with ruthless efficiency for dancefloor purposes) some part of my brain keeps assuming this is about to bust out into a remix of Ciara’s “Oh”. Not a complaint!
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Micha Cavaseno: The cool thing about this song is it reminded me that somewhere in my apartment I have both Cherish albums on CD and that I should make a point of checking them out again (or maybe even for the first time? I only think about Cherish once every four or five years sadly). I’m also happy that the US gets to have lazy UK Garage style jams à la Basement Jaxx become memes, and maybe this will be a pattern. Beyond that I couldn’t tell you anything about the song really, but I feel OK in spite of that.
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Leah Isobel: As a standalone single, this is pretty whatever. As adhesive material for a fun club mashup, it’s great. But I’m grading it as a standalone single, so…
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Nortey Dowuona: I’ve heard this during work all the time and it is only a great song until the drop happens and the Cherish hook drops, then the drums drop… and then it stops needing to exist. 
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Oliver Maier: I have to assume that this did well because it sounds kind of like the song from Squid Game and I can’t tell whether that makes me feel better or worse about it. At any rate Acraze has sucked all the blood out of an impeccable song until only a gasping husk remains, and surely that’s worth something? Hello?
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Scott Mildenhall: It’s hard not to respect the unabashedly perfunctory nature of this remix — not just for its commitment to the template, but also how the inverted drop lays bare an essential connection to its heritage. That sudden discarding of all expendable accoutrements in favour of a badly mixed vocal and tinny bass is almost Pavlovian in the extent to which it could be playing from crap phone speakers on a bus to 2007. Is this the point? Is it supposed to sound formally bad? Perhaps not, but the result is quite nice.
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