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Brad Shoup: Although Austin has (and is exporting) its beloved theater experience, the national chains still have some hold on me. On the right night, attending an AMC late-night showing is akin to inheriting a creaky mansion, only it’s not haunted and you get to suck on a rain barrel-sized Cherry Coke and think your stupid thoughts. “Mysterious Girl” is, awful enunciation aside, of a piece with the pre-preview music spotlight. It’s the kind of thing that’s built for the background, yet still manages to be obtrusive. The alto sax figure is the obvious trigger, an oleaginous additive to the popcorn-light shuffle. My entertainment world would be poorer for its absence.
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Iain Mew: Too late to tell if I would have liked this as much (i.e. at all) if I’d heard it before “Volume Up”. As it is, any issues with, say, the weakness of the vocals are outweighed by the joy that, yes, that saxophone does have a rightful home after all!
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Edward Okulicz: Would be better in an instrumental because the sax bit is worth what the supply/demand chain would suggest. Sadly, the vocals make me think of some teal-shirted sex pests chasing girls by some Mediterranean beachside resort in Croatia on a Contiki tour (do Romanians go on such things? I don’t know, but the video is not helping me here). The rest of the track itself is cruising the beach road with the top down in a modestly-priced rental vehicle, with the sun out just enough for you to be able to say “Wow, I’m having a reasonable time out here.”
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Alfred Soto: It’s not a song — it’s an advertisement for the recrudescence of heterosexual songwriting tropes. Also: an excuse to manipulate late nineties gay tribal house and eighties saxophone. In short, these Romanians want to be a hit in all the markets.
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Katherine St Asaph: Look, guys, it’s the original template for The Wanted — Ibiza beats, smoldering, saxophone mystique and all!
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Jonathan Bogart: The cod-Kenny G wandering sax line is the best thing about the song, so it’s no surprise that Korean engineers built a much better song around it.
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