I’m not sure we do.
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Patrick St. Michel: We already had a Destiny’s Child sorta-reunion song, and that was “Nuclear.” So this one-idea-repeated-three-times-that’s-it song doesn’t even need to exist. Well, I hope kids at Summer Bible camp like it.
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Mallory O’Donnell: You can do straight gospel over a punchy backbeat that drags a bit, you just can’t do it with dancehall intonation and lyrics rejected from sunday school. This soars a bit when synth stabs and vocal reach coincide, but the rest is so boring it’s positively un-Christian of them.
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Anthony Easton: I’ll wait for the Hillsong Kids remix.
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Brad Shoup: When the piano gets thumped, this almost gets turned into a stepper. Otherwise, it’s like a Take Back the Carnaval held in the multi-purpose building.
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Alfred Soto: This gospel star called her former colleagues for nondescript exhortations to the Lord, on a track with a loud stutter beat and a vague reggae lilt reminiscent of this hit. Naturally Beyonce gets the nothing-can-stop-us-now bit: gospel as mirror, encomium as self-help affirmation.
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Thomas Inskeep:
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Jer Fairall: As a non-believer, the best I can say is that I’m happy that she’s happy.
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Jonathan Bradley: Jesus sounds almost as demanding as the dude from “Cater 2 U.” The soca beat is nice enough.
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Crystal Leww: Kind-of-Destiny’s-Child pulls off a turnt up gospel jam because of course they would. It’s a holiday today, and this makes me want to do a corny two-step in a line with my family.
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