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Will Adams: ‘Cause we all need somebody to trampoline on.
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Alfred Soto: When Mustard gets his hands on “Lean on Me” and gets an LFO-worthy performance out of two North Cali dudes (“They met for a second time at a movie showing of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never in 2011, when Myles told Kalin he was starting to get into music”), it’s Miller time.
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Thomas Inskeep: Kiddie pop-hip hop of the worst kind, especially since it’s actually about girls “bouncing” like trampolines. A lazy interpolation of “Lean On Me” does not a good song make, and neither do juvenile (not Juvenile) rhyme skills.
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Alex Ostroff: “Trampoline” is so corny and so incredibly dorkily Disney and probably a sign that Mustardwave is reaching its saturation point — the first time I heard it I was prepared to compare it to Karmin. But it is also an earworm that has crawled through my headphones into my brain and compels me to unconsciously bounce at the least appropriate times — on the subway to work, at my desk, on the subway back home, at family dinners, probably on my deathbed even. Plus, it’s the source of my current favourite Mondegreen: “Yikes, something she been learnin’ to knit.”
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Crystal Leww: It’s been Stockholm Syndrome with this song, as my initial recoil has turned into genuine bopping while listening to it in the radio on the way to work. Kalin and Myles have admirers in famous folks, too — Jordin Sparks sang the song’s praises in her Fresh Radio mix and King of the Party Flo Rida has a new song out with that “Lean on Me” sample. It’s so stupid, but so are so many things that I like, so why change when I’m having fun?
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Iain Mew: They’ve got the bounce, but they manage to make lines like “you know you’re a freak” sound dull. Tinie Tempah made things a lot more fun.
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Edward Okulicz: Oh, DJ Mustard is making cheap-sounding pop with charmless non-entities in the vein of Ark Music now? That’s nice.
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Micha Cavaseno: It’s scientifically curious, I guess, like radiation poisoning. But likewise, it’s not something I wanna deal with on a personal level.
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Megan Harrington: I was a deeply uptight teenager, slavishly devoted to rules and dressed in a rigorously neutral palette so that I might fade into the walls and lockers and desks. I was no fun at all, I would not have enjoyed “Trampoline” privately, and I would have despised it as a sentiment directed by boys at me. I’m sure there are still some inhibited teen girls out there in the wild who do not want to be bouncy like trampolines, and I send them my condolences and the assurance that in 10 years it will be the dumbest fun they ever have.
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Katherine St Asaph: The precise moment at which fun turns dead-eyed.
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Scott Mildenhall: Admittedly these two are mere musical fledglings with doubtless tentative budgets, but those are incontestably not standard trampolines in the video. Everything about the clip adds to a winsome air of a more sophisticated mutation of Ark Music; one with Bill Withers on side.
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Jonathan Bradley: “Lean on Me” is a complete travesty of a song. Kalin and Myles are why teenage boys should never ever be considered cool. Everyone involved with this is an idiot. Me included.
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