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Kylo Nocom: They can beg all they want, but I’m not gonna love this until they get rid of that damn whistle.
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Alfred Soto: Not any whistle hook: the hook from “Moves Like Jagger,” no less.
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Katherine St Asaph: Curse the whistling. You have disco strings, you have grotty console sounds, you have compressed call-and-response falsetto — you don’t need another sonic gimmick, let alone one that dates this to 2012, rather than 2014.
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Will Adams: Between the “4 Walls”-esque house and the whistle hook that resembles Hilary Duff’s “Sparks,” “Love Me” seems transported from 2015. But where those two songs offered clear, unambiguous hooks, “Love Me” coasts on a series of non-committal ideas: the whistle, which drifts out too much to really stick; pitch-shifted vocal squiggles; yeah-yeahs. And when Twice are doing this sound in much snappier fashion, the blandness of this comes into even sharper focus.
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Wayne Weizhen Zhang: Not quite love, but like?
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Alex Clifton: If I were Superman, my kryptonite would be whistling hooks and Eurodance pianos, and this song would kill me. It’d be an awesome way to go out, though.
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Edward Okulicz: “Love Me” doesn’t float the way it should because it’s weighed down a little too much by the beat, the oppressive “yeah, yeah, yeah!”, the whistle, and the accumulation of so much nostalgia crate-digging. Could have been a cute ’90s house piano Europop banger, a boss rush from an early CD-era video game soundtrack, a spoiler track to prevent Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” charting in South Korea, and it’s really all that and more. While writing this blurb, in another window I got an email from a notorious online store encouraging me to purchase LED light shoelaces. Can’t be a coincidence, and yes, I bought them.
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