Unsurprisingly, this is only the second instance of “moombahton” on this site…
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Katherine St Asaph: “Dibby Dibby Sound” is a cool story: released on a 2013 moombahton compilation, gets a chunk of viewers after a YouTube vlogger named Dalas uses it as credits music; also gets picked up by DJ Fresh and tops the dance chart; actually belongs to Ms Dynamite, as yet another killer-kinetic showcase that still won’t break her. (Though this happens for lots of dance instrumentals, all the comments complaining about her added vocals are especially irritating. She’s the best part! Look upon ye words and despair.)
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Scott Mildenhall: The DJ Fresh race to the bottom of the barrel continues. Where to go after gradually boiling your formula down to vapour, re-releasing your most enduring hit, and building a song around the one reliable structure amid an earthquake’s debris? Stealing someone else’s song, is where! Admittedly Jay Fay’s original “Dibby Dibby” pales in comparison with this version; Fresh has shined it up and given it a pitch shift here and there, and Ms Dynamite pulls off another star turn with some quotable lines of her own, but it’s still not his. Fortunately for him, though, none of that really matters, because DIBBY DIBBY DIBBY DIBBY DIBBY DIBBY DIBBY DIBBY DIB
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Alfred Soto: Catchy, yeah, but a menace. Dynamite does nothing of interest until the percussive breakdown at the two-minute mark. And, oh, that hook.
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Jer Fairall: No one here is slacking, certainly not Ms Dynamite, who flexes her way between a lively chant-rap and a brief but exuberant half-sung bridge, but the bounce-like “dibbydibbydibbydibbydibbydibbysound
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Anthony Easton: Ms Dynamite has one of the best voices in pop, a static spitting push smoothed out by a swinging rhythm. She seems to be getting better material as well. Add Jay Fray and the whole thing becomes unrelenting.
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Megan Harrington: “Dibby Dibby Sound” is the kid that yells “CHA CHA CHA” after every line in the “The Birthday Song.” You’re groaning and rolling your eyes on the outside, but inside you respect their spunky sense of chaos.
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Brad Shoup: That was a lot of work just to rewrite “Mundian To Bach Ke”. At least Ms Dynamite’s having fun. Hey, whaddya know, so am I.
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