NOPE NEVER MIND: “‘Samsara 2015’ is a 2014 song.“
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Josh Langhoff: I so didn’t expect my endless cycle of death and rebirth would have a Fatboy Slim soundtrack.
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Thomas Inskeep: Weird dance-pop that would’ve topped every European singles chart in the summer of ’96, followed by a post-holiday (i.e. September) spell at #1 in the UK. And it might yet in 2015. It’s got a kind of Chicane-esque build, and then goes completely off the rails with this weird glitchy faux-dubstep bridge. Also, “follow the rave/let’s get it on,” yesssss.
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Patrick St. Michel: Is… is this supposed to be a joke? The verse vocals are overly serious and just bad, then it all builds up to a drop so gloriously stupid and so proud of its dingbattedness. I don’t know if this is self-aware, so this score seems safe — though I might love this more than it reflects.
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Megan Harrington: You know how sometimes you’ll find a perfume called something like Arabian Nights and then you smell it and it’s kind of like sunlight on horse hair or something? Dust mixed with musk? Well, “Samsara” has about as much to do with Samsara as a perfume called Arabian Nights has to do with dusk in Kuwait.
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Madeleine Lee: The use of the title conceit is so brainless that the average-sounding beat can’t do anything for it, and vice versa. That said, I do feel relieved that their conception of Samsara is some kind of honky-tonk Gangnam rather than attempting sitar scales or something.
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Katherine St Asaph: One of the rare cases where it’d probably help a singer’s career to go uncredited. If she needs an Alan Smithee name, I suggest Haley Bennett.
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Micha Cavaseno: I’ve only read about Samsara about three or four times, recognizing that any attraction to Buddhism is going to be negated by my own desire to be combative and quarrelsome as much as possible (*the collective other voices of the site sigh and nod in frustrated agreement*). I think such a philosophical concept could deserve a greater gesture of comprehension than electro-swing and autotune that skids the voice into territory even Ke$ha would describe as a bit too nasty, but again, I’m not the one for that. I just have to note that if Tungevaag & Raaban believed in karma, they’d know they were going to get reincarnated into a mule for this shit. Because this tune is ass.
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