Kids! Plan B is not candy!
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: Not to be confused with the man behind Strickland Banks, Plan B consist of two Puerto Rican cousins. I guess this makes the otherwise well-produced “Candy” an example of leering symbiosis?
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Anthony Easton: Googling this is terrible, because it’s not the morning after pill (would love a reworked riot grrrl band with that name) or that British hip-hop artist who wrote that kind of awful song about the London riots a couple of years ago. This one is a reggaeton band that has been together for 15 years. They have that sheen of professionalism that suggest that they know what they are doing. Maybe I would like this better in July; the speed of flow is impressive, but mostly I am a little bored.
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Crystal Leww: We all got over Chance’s voice, so I have no idea why these vocals grate so damn much. It does not help that they go with a song that presumably uses candy as a metaphor for women. How original.
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Brad Shoup: I can’t fuck with lines like “le gusta el sexo en exceso/y en el proceso me pide un beso.” Doesn’t help that these guys are rapping on stepstools, or that the track promises something grim.
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Katherine St Asaph: “Candy” is apt; this is reggaeton that’s all treble, little substance.
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Jonathan Bradley: The synths are Zaytoven flimsy and brighter than Jolly Ranchers. So frivolous as to be faintly pleasurable.
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Iain Mew: The beeps are bright and airy, but the way that Plan B so methodically work away at their one lightly leering vocal mode means any enjoyment hangs on getting with that. I can’t. If only they would switch to some kind of backup tactic.
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Alfred Soto: God — seriously? This? In 2014? Points for using “proceso” in an, ah, ambitious verse.
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