Want to make a Guy Ritchie pun, but this is already bad enough…
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[3.90]
Erika Villani: At the risk of sounding like I belong on a porch with Jay-Z, yelling at these damn kids to get off my lawn: Good Lord, does nobody just use their voice anymore? I really can’t tell what Kano would sound like without the Auto-Tune, which is a shame, because with it he’s just a poor man’s Mr Hudson featuring Kanye West.
[1]
Anthony Miccio: Do all roads in grime run to Ibiza?
[4]
Andrew Casillas: I’m sure this sounds better when the club releases foam from the ceiling.
[3]
Michaelangelo Matos: Cf. Planet Patrol’s “I Didn’t Know I Love You (‘Til I Saw You Rock and Roll),” only that one’s a lot less claustrophobic than this is. Comes on at first like it might be gabber, which, while overbearing, would at least be daring. Instead it’s 70 percent hook, 30 percent verse, which isn’t a bad ratio in itself except that the hook is so damn lazy.
[5]
Matt Cibula: Not very convincing as rock and roll but it kinda jumps out of the speakers, dunnit? Reminds me a lot of poor underappreciated Kenna, and of about 300 other housy songs I like.
[7]
Talia Kraines: It’s catchy, but reeks so much of a desperation to crack the top ten that it loses any identity Kano once had.
[5]
Pete Baran: Kano doesn’t so much ape the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll as use the words over and over again in the hope that they hold some sort of magical spirit of musical excitement. Unfortunately, singing down what sounds like a vacuum cleaner pipe BEFORE the autotune gets at it removes the one thing that could have made this rock ‘n’ roll: the sense of a performance.
[3]
Tal Rosenberg: Poor Kano/Where you’ll be, I’ll go/But this song really blows/Please put this behind you.
[2]
Additional Scores
Ian Mathers: [5]
Martin Skidmore: [4]