Don’t be so quick to walk away / Wanna sample “Body,” please stay…
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Will Adams: Flipping Justin Timberlake’s swaggy-corny plea into a sinister, pitched down hook is cool, and it’s bolstered by the low-end vworps that pop in throughout. Don Toliver isn’t saying much, though, beyond an amusing Cassius Clay reference.
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Nortey Dowuona: I will give anyone who is actually clicking on these a quick mercy: you are not required to engage with uncompelling pieces of music in order to keep up. Your curiosity should be led by being surprised, not being reminded and reared on nostalgia for your own misspent youth.
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Al Varela: I don’t have a problem with Don Toliver using Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body” as a prominent part of this song. I actually like the idea of doing the Cam’ron “Oh Boy” method of every bar with the sample. Fun! But the song itself has to be good, too. Instead we get this hideous beat that vomits every other measure alongside a dinky synth and Don Toliver’s usual bellowing smothered in vocal effects. There’s no groove to this song at all, which is insane to me when you have “Rock Your Body” as your sample! Not even a consistent percussive rhythm?? All the catchiness and novelty of ending every bar with “body” is completely lost in a sea of sludge and dull rocks.
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Andrew Karpan: Kind of a brutal, mechanical re-re-interpretation that says nothing new, but instead reports back on the past decade or two of bad dreams, and in which Travis acolyte Don Toliver functions as a kind of cutting, modernist figure drawing from the well of post-Yeezus varieties of loudness.
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Alfred Soto: Whatever its sentiments, “Body” is an ugly-sounding track.
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