Screencap of Artist Reacting to Their Score, Part Infinity…
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Nortey Dowuona: Bouncy, striking bass, slipping drums, slight synths, Donae’O chucking his vocals into a opt of autotune while Giggs has as much fun as he can possibly have with a slight, hiccuping flow.
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Ashley John: The chorus of “Linguo” is its peak, melodic and but still with a hard punch. The verses get a bit cluttered in between, hung up on too many words with too little patience. Still, the beat behind it all is going to bounce around my head for the rest of the day, and that’s probably more important.
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Ryo Miyauchi: Giggs doesn’t need to raise his voice much to get a personality across, but “Linguo” suffers as a general party single without Donae’O. The needed guest provides a sticky melody and a spiky personality while Giggs follows the shy, bumpy beat too faithfully.
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Will Adams: The sparse, nimble beat is a nice draw, but after a minute it becomes evident that it’s not substantial enough to support either Giggs’ stop-start flow or Donae’O’s gelled hook.
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Stephen Eisermann: A sweet hook and a hot beat aren’t enough to overcome the terrible verses. It’s not even the vulgarity that offends, but the simple lack of effort that seems to have gone into the verses is annoying because every other part of the song works. I mean, come on, rhyming Sharon and Karen? Leave that name rhyming BS to Lou Bega.
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Eleanor Graham: A tepid Giggs manages to trivialise both a potentially epic beat and, to quote SZA, p*ssy. The hook is fine, but if the bitches are bilingual, doesn’t that imply that they do understand your lingo? Anyway, there are rare and precious moments in popular music that hold up an unexpected mirror to who you are and how you live, and that’s how I feel about the carton of Tesco apple juice at 0:16 in this video.
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