When you try your best but you don’t succeed…
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Brad Shoup: Sex. Have you had it? Have you heard of it? Here’s my card. What a twerp.
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David Sheffieck: I like the admission of vulnerability on display from the beginning of Jonez’s lyric; it’s the sort of thing that makes you want to pat him on the back and tell him it’ll be okay. Tell him that yes, she might’ve had good sex lately — but you don’t need to compare yourself to whoever she was with before. You don’t need to boast you were raised like a pimp just because you’re intimidated by the thought that women might be having sex with someone before they met you. I’d do it gently; he seems fragile.
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Patrick St. Michel: There’s this part late in the song where the vocals get pitch-shifted down, and this deep voice booms out: “SEX – HAVE YOU HAD IT.” Incredible moment on an otherwise cluttered song that, considering the subject matter, should know less is more.
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Megan Harrington: The vocal on this is just incredible: warped, pitch-shifted shouts stamping the song with “SEX” and “GOOD SEX,” dagger sharp falsettos contouring “ha-aaa-aa-aaaaa-aa-ve” and Jonez’s natural, silky mid-range filling in the rest of the song’s lyrics. “Sex You” isn’t exactly seductive, but it is incredibly eager and excited, endearing on its own terms.
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Alfred Soto: Listeners nostalgic for prime The-Dream will swoon over the bubble effects and insistent lust.
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Katherine St Asaph: I know The-Dream, and you are no The-Dream. The-Dream would have produced this to sound less Priscilla’s-ad tacky, or at least done something half-clever with “raindrops keep falling on my….”
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Will Adams: That gurgling water noise sounds like a toilet overflowing. Maybe Bando Jonez should stop nagging his love interest whether she’s had good sex lately and attend to that.
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Anthony Easton: The sound of the water on the roof, the synth burbles, the directness of the invitation: the whole thing is so silly, and yet it might be a tiny bit seductive.
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