Dominic Fike – Babydoll

Song so short I don’t even have time to finish thi-

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[3.83]Will Adams: It’s a 97 second track from a 2018 release of demos that unwittingly blew up on TikTok eight years later and which is now A Thing We Have to Cover. I won’t begrudge Dominic that. I’m just starting to tire of this phenomenon of throwaway half-songs piling up into an endless scroll of content that leaves the mind the second you swipe to the next.
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Alfred Soto: TikTok helped this Naples, Florida act reach #16 with this brief number notable for its Miguel-indebted vocal and Dijon-indebted guitar crunch. Attitude and in a top 40 context live drums go some distance.
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Nortey Dowuona: So Julian Cruz is who I need to blame for this, huh? Good.
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Ian Mathers: The wise man spoke: “This, too, is ’90s revival.” Nice voice, though.
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Andrew Karpan: This is what I imagine Sublime with Rome sounded like.
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Iain Mew: He’s “waitin’ on calls and flippin’ through stations”, so perhaps the format of the song is meant to reflect that, a disconnected chorus-verse-chorus in just over 90 seconds and then an ending abrupt enough it’s like someone pressed the next station button. It’s the opposite of “Motion Party”, though; it simultaneously feels needlessly inert and like barely half a song. In the video Fike carries on singing to himself beyond the crunch finish, simultaneously acknowledging the dissatisfying effect and elongating it further.
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