The Singles Jukebox

Pop, to two decimal places.

Galantis ft. OneRepublic – Bones

That’s not love, that’s Paget’s disease, dude.


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Joshua Minsoo Kim: Well, they’ve managed to take a trite turn of phrase and find music that matches its level of ingenuity.
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Iris Xie: I confess, I danced TWICE’s “Dance the Night Away” choreography to the chorus. It matches too! “Let’s dance the night away!” “I feel it in my BO-oo–Ooo-nes!” They both have that horn EDM thing going on and the impassioned but deflated vocals. I remain impressed at how producers conspire to create the songs that have inoffensive and mild cheeriness which is in direct contradiction of the sentiments expressed. I’ve definitely felt intense happiness in my bones and heart, and it’s genuinely difficult to capture the complexity and brightness of this feeling. This doesn’t even get close, but it matches the TWICE attempt at a light, down-to-earth, summer party demeanor. Come on, try the dance!
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Alfred Soto: “I feel it in my….BONES” *boom crash mariachi horns, acoustic guitar, male angst*. He could have called it “Hambone.” 
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David Sheffieck: It’s hard to imagine a less demanded (or less timely) pairing, and yet this is the best case scenario for EDM country, a pristine stomper of a track that packs its hooks tight around Ryan Tedder’s quivering vocal and manages an infectiously bouncy momentum. That catchiness and enthusiasm might not be enough to outweigh the way this is hopping on a trend that burned out when Galantis were toddlers, but it helps.
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Iain Mew: Galantis goes Carly Rae Jepsen! The twist: it’s “Good Time.”
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Thomas Inskeep: An EDM/pop track about “feel[ing] like home” rooted around acoustic guitar, with the singer from an awful “band” on the credit? As Miranda Priestly would say, dry as the Sahara: Groundbreaking.
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Scott Mildenhall: Is this Galantis branching out, or the irresistible vines of “Waves”wave enclosing them within? When Gary Numan wrote “Metal,” could he ever have foreseen that such a significant section of electronic music would one day — and at last count, for about 2000 days — be pushed to sound like it was made with wood, sung around burning wood and furthermore in a wood? Ryan Tedder seems like a key player in this coup, but at times like this, with songs like “Bones,” he sounds like a passenger. No, the real hand at this wheel can only be Eagle-Eye Cherry, determined to forever more bequeath the world songs to which it can sing “Save Tonight” over the top.
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Will Adams: Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, it’s always a good time. Until it’s not.
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Katherine St Asaph: From Ryan Tedder’s vertebraying to an Owl City rip so blatant it’s humerus, this single gives me osteoporosis.
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Alex Clifton: It’s fine, it really is serviceable, but it sounds like we have unearthed one of those folk-dance demos from 2013, and it’s not a demo that was worth sitting on for six years.
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Stephen Eisermann: OneRepublic, and more specifically Ryan Tedder, has made a career out of emulating other styles and slightly varying the final product to avoid sounding too similar. Here, it seems the band had put on their Mumford and Sons costume, but decided to run it through an EDM filter; which is fine, I guess, if you’re into vaguely moving power pop with a drop, but I’ve never been a big fan of the 13 Reasons Why soundtrack, so…
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