Will we get into the groove?
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[5.17]
Ian Mathers: Not 100 percent sure this one needed verses, to be honest.
[5]
Nortey Dowuona: The weeping synths hide as Apache wails, a lurking bass slinking around his feet, then hopping back and forth to spin his eyes, then cycling around on the hot bun kicks and swaying back and forth. Dragging the snares behind the wheels, the bass flings a cartwheel in front of Apache, then kicks dust and flies up to ride the drums, the snares now tucked in the spokes, and the synths come out to drag Apache back to the house.
[8]
Thomas Inskeep: Overly Auto-Tuned rapping from a pair of Germans, sure, with a minimal EDM track accompanying them, but with lyrics like “Everyone goes crazy ’cause you’re like Madonna/1986, MTV, Madonna” — well, I am who I am.
[6]
Tim de Reuse: The four-chord loop? Not much to write home about. The melody of the hook? A lazy stepladder without the tiniest melodic surprise. The pleasant clunk of the synth bass is the only sonically memorable thing going on here, and even that’s only the barest development on the trop-house timbres that swept through Europe in the mid-2010s. This is the kind of thing you might hum to yourself when you’re trying to remember a much catchier song but forgetting all the interesting details.
[4]
Juana Giaimo: Without watching the music video with all the screams from the public that interrupt the song, I realize the backing track is darker than I thought, especially with those kind of misty keyboards appearing at the beginning. Unfortunately, the loud Auto-Tuned vocals don’t help in maintaining that mysterious vibe, and the song soon turns into another anonymous dance track that actually doesn’t make me want to dance.
[4]
Iain Mew: There’s a hint of Madonna flexibility in the way they hop between different sounds from section to section, but it gets hung up on the chorus, which ultimately reveals how little they have going on beyond one fun reference.
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