That Fucked Up song is really growing on me, by the way. I mean, obviously that session version with the Canadian lass is a cut above, but the original’s pretty nifty too…

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Zach Lyon: ‘ey girl… did it hurt… when you fell from heaven? Also, do you think that’d make a good premise for an entire song?
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Al Shipley: I thought maybe by now Akon had just taken all that Gaga money and reinvested it in blood diamonds, but apparently he noticed the other 8 guys that sound just like him all over pop radio and wanted a piece of the action again.
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John Seroff: It’s difficult for me to express how immensely tired I am of Akon’s vapid, milky electroglossolalia. Marinating him in Guetta’s less-than-special Eurosauce produces a yet ranker, populist tang; kneading in the aural cues of Apple television ads (“The New iPod Angel. Glow different”) places “Angel” firmly into the camp of unlistenable.
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Martin Skidmore: Fundamentally, talking about “I’m looking at an angel” while sounding like a robot doesn’t work for me.
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Josh Langhoff: Forgive me, Akon. At first I didn’t believe you, but that was before I learned she has wings and a halo.
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Asher Steinberg: If you’re going to make a song about an angel, so high in the sky, sitting on cloud 9, etc., and your chosen style of production for this song is synth-pop, shouldn’t it have a dreamy, ethereal feel, not a David Guetta bad-remake-of-“I Gotta Feeling”-thump to it? More problematic is the fact that the singer’s Akon, who, even when he’s singing about angels, can never escape the monotony of the club or the sense that all his songs, even his more high-toned ones like this, are essentially about the experience of being dumbfounded by the size of some girl’s ass.
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Katherine St Asaph: David Guetta is the IKEA of songwriters. He is the Mad Libs of songwriters. He is the Windows-default script font of songwriters. He is the Toll House slice-and-bake cookie of songwriters. Radio is powerless against his massive stamp, as are the singers he scoops up and flattens. Points deducted on fucking principle.
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Kat Stevens: I reached my limit on “I Gotta Feeling” re-treads back in February.
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Chuck Eddy: Sounds more like “Your Love” by the Outfield than “Angel” by Shaggy. I guess that’s something.
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Jer Fairall: Given the source, I was expecting a riff on some other popular “Angel”-titled song, so the question was simply a matter of whether he’d be shameless enough to mutate the Sarah McLachlan elegy, whether his memory stretched far back enough to remember the Aerosmith power ballad, or whether he’d be unoriginal enough to do some mild reworking of that Shaggy track that was itself already a dimwitted spin on “Angel of the Morning” (my money was on the latter). Turns out that this is a rip-off of nothing in particular, though it resembles any number of faceless Euro dance tracks in general, making up what it lacks in Akon’s usual obnoxiousness with bland serviceability.
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Jonathan Bogart: I’d like to miss him, but he won’t go away.
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