Um… what were we talking about?
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[5.14]
Alfred Soto: This Australian plugs his laptop into the digital displays of Luke James and Jason Derulo but adds two megabytes of menace.
[5]
Jonathan Bradley: Jarryd James’s drowsy, R&B-inflected vocal is pretty, but soul is supposed to make us feel something, and all I feel when listening to “Do You Remember” is that maybe James heard a Miguel record once. The arrangement is tense but the groove non-apparent, leaving the tune caught in a limbo between creepy and sultry, without resolving as either. If I judge it leniently, it is because it stands upon the shoulders of stunted giants.
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Megan Harrington: At heart, I think this is an average song and that time will prove it forgettable. But in the mellow sunniness of an early spring mid-morning, it works too well to punish it for its weaknesses. The creeping production, the amateur breathiness of James’s vocal — they’re familiar but not redundant, like a dusty attic with light streaming through the ceiling’s wooden beams. “Do You Remember” has an almost vertiginous quality, like déjà vu. Do you remember or is it happening for the first time?
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Ramzi Awn: The refrain is packed to the brim, and the verses, clean as a whistle. It’s hard out there in a man’s world, but Jarryd James makes it sound good.
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Patrick St. Michel: Handclaps and whiny vocals, my favorite!
[3]
Micha Cavaseno: Self-serious TV trailer music, which is cluttered with a dozen gimmicks (Lets get some pizzicato! Oooh, lets place his falsetto and his normal voice together for the whole song! How about we get some BIIIG DRUMS on the chorus, to let you know it’s BIIIIIG!) to provide a lot of distractions from the fact that we’re listening to fuck all.
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Scott Mildenhall: Remember? Of course! You released a few passable singles 10 years ago that did passably, then went on The Voice and released some more passable singles that did passably. It was this sort of lightweight soul, mostly, if a bit less watery. In a way you were… hang on a minute. You’re not Tyler James, are you. Could you maybe be his brother?
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