From duets day to Even More Collaborators day!
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Al Varela: I just… kept waiting for the sample to show up. The stolen melody I come to expect from David Guetta. The hacky attempt to mine people’s nostalgia and play a basic, recognizable tune instead of something original or actually good. It never came. There is no sample. It’s an original song. Teddy Swims and Tones and I are a good match. And Guetta gave them some solid production to back them up. It… It’s good… Huh.
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Tim de Reuse: David Guetta’s internal monologue went something like “Fuck, people really don’t like David Guetta these days. The general public speaks my name with quiet disgust ever since that Eiffel 65 thing. What if I pretended to be Fatboy Slim instead?” and you know what? That was probably a good move. I’ll take Fatboy Slim over David Guetta any day. It helps that he also copied Mr. Slim’s technique of hiring vocalists interesting enough to make his most prosaic breatbeak exercises worth listening through.
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Ian Mathers: Like it was designed in a lab to vex me. Thank you to Tones and I for reminding me that I don’t actually hate Teddy Swims’ voice, by comparison.
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Nortey Dowuona: This deserves the title. It’s also not trying to…wait, this is the MK remix? This is also really good actually, never mind what I was talking about. (bops along for a minute) OK, now for the actual song. …This has a minute left? Those drum breaks at the beginning added nothing. Sigh.
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Scott Mildenhall: At last, the long-awaited sequel: The David Guetta of Strickland Banks. Having that name on the credits demands this be livelier than pure American Idol fodder, but only just. With so little of note happening, it’s easy to miss the boldness of comparing yourself to a conflagrated oil spill in an opening couplet. The more Ted’n’Tones toil, the less it seems like they see it, too.
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Dave Moore: A brutal FMK, especially after you realize you have to marry Teddy Swims.
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Alfred Soto: Hilarious video: Teddy Swims reading lyrics from his phone as if it were the Talmud, David Guetta as coked-up/excited as Rick James watching Eddie Murphy bring it in the “Party All the Time” video. Notice I haven’t mentioned the song.
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Taylor Alatorre: A better Dad EDM is possible. For the sake of dads everywhere, it has to be.
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It’s funny, I just so happened to run across this last night in my weekly Thursday Beatport music dump. I took notice of it because I like David Guetta (though I may have to reconsider that, I forgot he did “I’m Good”), but once the vocals started up, all I could think about was the overwhelming underwhelm the folks around here have about Teddy Swims, and of course, y’all are right on that one. [4]
There is a sample though – QT Quartet’s Hold That Sucker Down