We don’t exactly like it like that…
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Katherine St Asaph: One of those tracks where the fact of it — a Latin-pop-via-everpresent-sample song by a Cuban-Norwegian artist — is more interesting than the sound.
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Will Adams: The added benefit of “I Like It” is that at least its knockoffs sound interesting instead of tiresome. This just happens to be its most nondescript iteration.
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Scott Mildenhall: There could hardly be bad money in, say, galvanising oneself into writing something that sounds like Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin. So now that’s done, bring on the kr.
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Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Going for a complete pastiche of one of the biggest and best hit singles of last year is a bold move regardless of what that single is, but going for a Norwegian take on Cardi B when you yourself appear to have no particular personality is an especially bold one. These points are for gall rather than style.
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Iris Xie: It’s as safe and inoffensive as bad powdered sugar doughnuts, the ones where you severely regret it after consumption, for you might even have an allergic reaction to the preservatives present in it. But, all that cake and powder! You can’t hate that very much. I wouldn’t skip it at a party, but I wouldn’t go back for it either.
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Will Rivitz: Calling this Spotify-algorithm-as-music “milquetoast” is both an affront to milk and toast and at least two syllables more than this song deserves, a ripoff of “I Like It” so bland and directionless it’s hardly worth even mentioning Cardi. Next.
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