We know who you are, Meghan, but we’re not…
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Katie Gill: Say what you will about obnoxious “Me Too” era Meghan Trainor, but at least that was memorable. This song is completely indistinguishable from every other EDM song featuring a possibly uncredited female vocalist getting radio-play at the moment. Aside from that, I honestly can’t help but wonder if this is a step down for Trainor. Surely’s she’s got Marshmello levels of EDM collab clout by now!
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Ian Mathers: In which two middling tastes taste, uh, honestly, pretty middling together.
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Alfred Soto: What on earth is she doing at the mike? Goo goo doll affectation, Ariana Grande swoops, strangled noises that sound like hiccups — she’ll try anything, damn her. The steamroller beat does no one any favors.
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Katherine St Asaph: Given that Meghan Trainor’s last EP underperformed, despite a hyperventilating press release about “smashing bae’s junk to smithereens“, and that her biggest success since has been on this peppily, Zeddily anonymous EDM track where she’s barely identifiable as herself, I’d guess Trainor is trying to settle down or at least hunker down for a bit, singing something that doesn’t highlight her brand. But she just released a solo single that’s literally about her special and unique genetics, the nature-vs-nurture counterpart to Britney’s “Work,” so that theory’s out. And while “Genetics” is very much more embarrassing than this, it is also more interesting.
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Andy Hutchins: One of the advantages of being one of the scores of largely anonymous dudebro DJducers has to be tapping relative no-names to collaborate with if their skills, lyrical or laryngeal, are up to par: Thus did the Chainsmokers not just wring their best song but its title from one of their collaborators. So of course a dude whose name isn’t even the best cascade-derived one in dance-pop would saddle Meghan Trainor, no one but Meghan Trainor’s idea of a powerhouse vocalist, with lyrics that she wouldn’t stoop to writing, and set it all to the sort of synth assault that you endure in spin class while waiting for better tunes. I can’t believe I honestly think that Trainor deserves better, but…
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Juan F. Carruyo: I find her timbre off-putting and it seems that she scrambled this track scrounging for producers on Fiverr.
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