We, on the other hand, are seeing right through you like you’re bathing in Windex…
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Edward Okulicz: Low effort, in that if Central Cee had released this 10 years ago, his peers would have written three times the number of rhymes, of three times better in quality, and honestly, the reward is low too. I can’t even bring myself to say “this is bad,” because nothing Cee does lasts long enough to have an impression. This is a pretty good showcase for someone else’s record.
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Oliver Maier: I want to take a moment first to appreciate that it is objectively very funny that a song by noted plunderphonic scamp PinkPantheress (albeit a fully homegrown one, in this case) has been flipped into another hit record within mere months of its release and then another moment to appreciate that, poetically enough, her track carries the new one on its little UKG shoulders. Cee does not do a damn thing to make this worth listening to over the original.
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Katherine St Asaph: Genres and sounds are diffusing faster and faster from niche to mainstream, URL to IRL. Which means that it only took about a year or two before hyperpop-adjacent hooks like this started to sound boring.
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Alfred Soto: Mixing a post-Grimes vocal and the Doja Cat approach may produce “Obsessed with You,” but listeners may wonder why anyone would matter.
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Ian Mathers: Nothing says “I’m grown” like saying “I’m done with these bitches”, am I right?
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Mark Sinker: As a twitter gag, But I’m different is a mocking, self-destructing boast: a claim that you alone wouldn’t be caught out the way everyone else would be. Central Cee’s shtick seems to be “Yes, usually people are right not to admire person who’s a prick — but I’m different“, or in translation, “ME? I’m the arse hole you should admire.” Which is kinda different I guess, though nothing else about this is.
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