I didn’t try very hard to capture a flattering frame of the video, just cause, you know…

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Brad Shoup: Beware of tunes that make their lyrical conceit musical. The refrain’s sophisticated melody cries out for a resolution. Instead, we get skip-skip-skipping. Everything else is no great shakes. The most memorable instrumental bit is the rinky piano chipping away at the two and four, constantly beset by a filter set to ‘vinyl authenticity’. Much as I’m hopeful for their future, Rizzle Kicks’ cameo is too brief and robs this already-piecemeal track of badly-needed momentum.
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Iain Mew: “Olly Murs. True Lad. Rizzle Kicks.” Thanks to the tendency of messageboards to gawk at horrible things I am aware that there is an unpleasant UK website called True Lad, largely a repository for user-generated misogyny and sex bragging. Now, Rizzle Kicks aren’t definitely referencing it, but the rest of the song doesn’t make me inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Katherine St Asaph: Getting syncopatedly pitter-patter over your lady, then claiming that’s skipping a beat, is factually wrong. It’s as wrong as strip-mining “All That She Wants” of all the interesting sounds and kidnapping its melody but swapping out its hook for a clinky MIDI sample. 
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Edward Okulicz: So light-weight and bland that it’s hard to tell what style this song was conceived as a Radio One-friendly dilution of.
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Sally O’Rourke: Rizzle Kicks, realizing their contract stipulates they provide a verse for Olly Murs, of all people, rhyme “see-saw” with “see Saw.” To be fair, how could they have known that Olly’s new single would be — dare I admit it — rather good? “Heart Skips a Beat” defuses the cod-reggaeisms of “Please Don’t Let Me Go” by filtering them through early ’90s dance, then slaps on a chorus uncannily like a one-man ‘N Sync covering “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” I fully expect to never again like an Olly Murs single, which makes me even more impressed by how closely this one comes to touching greatness.
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