“Gangnam Style” is five years old this summer. Chew on THAT.
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Will Adams: New face, same schtick.
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Thomas Inskeep: If “Weird Al” was Korean, only did original songs, and was really, really horny, he’d basically be Psy. Only “Weird Al” is a lot more original, even when doing parodies, than Psy. A lot more talented too, than this dance-pop-by-numbers with lyrics to match.
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Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa: Psy’s commitment to his formula is so consistent that, even when the beat in “New Face” has nothing to do with the blaring EDM of previous singles, it still manages to sound like more of the same. But the 2 Live Crew reference, however silly, is enough to give this one points.
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David Sheffieck: I’ll admit: I laughed at the 2 Live Crew interpolation (I’m sorry). If only the rest of the song had half that charm or a quarter the stickiness of that ancient hook. And honestly, this saxophone should’ve been taken out behind the barn and shot after Flo Rida perfected it a few years back.
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Micha Cavaseno: I mean, comedy pop rap that at least goes out of the way to sample “Clear” and “Baby Got Back” deep in the track is in its own way the Psy version of any other rapper citing their respective ancestors. so I have to give a few novelty points. That said, saxobeat in 2017 is going to stifle the chance of that novelty fostering any sort of genuine fondness so…
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Tim de Reuse: Psy sticks very close to his brand here in a way that would make this tune unremarkably decent were it not for the fact that the phrase “New Face” just doesn’t work as a crowd-chantable anthem.
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