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Khalid & Disclosure – Know Your Worth

Knowing their worth is how Disclosure got upgraded to an artist credit…


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Wayne Weizhen Zhang: For a duo who contributed so much to EDM’s evolution, Disclosure sounds disturbingly anonymous. Khalid remains on autopilot. 
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Nortey Dowuona: A plopping synth pisses in the stalls as Khalid quietly calls Normani about their label situation, with the bass running into the bathroom and getting into a fight with the drums, who are just washing their hands, and start a sloppy, weak slap fight. Khalid continues to talk to Normani, unaware that Normani is actually routing this to Megan, who is doing her 2-hoof step to it.
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Alfred Soto: Mumble mumble mumble — is this the way to a global hit?
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Michael Hong: Two years later and I’m still thinking about that one outburst of “can we just talk” from Khalid and Disclosure’s previous collaboration. I tend to find myself wishing Khalid would add some of these outbursts into his later music to break the tracks out of their stagnancy as they tend to just feel overwhelmingly pleasant. “Know Your Worth,” despite being another collaboration with Disclosure, is again just pleasant, like an updated tropical take on “What Makes You Beautiful,” mellowing out all the edges into something made perfect for vibing not so much for dancing.
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Edward Okulicz: Lovely song when Khalid bothers to open his mouth to sing it, which is just often enough to not make me angry at the lack of effort. And while the sentiment (hay girl hay, your bf is crap, I’m nice) teeters just on the brink of ick, Khalid’s hit the right note of sympathetic warmth to not sound like a creep! Not a dance song to dance to, really, it takes place just outside the boundaries of the dancefloor, where these sorts of conversations often take place too. But in that environment, someone would be struggling to be heard opening their mouth so little….
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Will Adams: “What Makes You Beautiful”-style sentiment isn’t improved when soundtracked by Disclosure’s tasteful lounge house. Meanwhile, “keep your head up” sentiment is a bit rich coming from someone who sings like he’s half-awake.
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Kylo Nocom: Khalid and Disclosure have long figured out the best methods to remove the teeth from R&B and dance respectively. Listeners will be pleased to hear that this is more like Disclosure featuring Khalid than the other way around — at least until they remember that Disclosure have long Flanderized themselves into producing various sequels to “Defeated No More.” Khalid’s nerdy self-motivation lyrics, of which he shows no signs of stopping soon, are cute enough but provide no reasons not to listen to the similar and superior “Radar.”
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Scott Mildenhall: It’d be unfair to say that Disclosure are an example of unfulfilled promise, because Settle is a classic of its place and time, but their decade’s run appears to have taken place on a treadmill. No-one could ever call them trend-hoppers, but perhaps if they were, “Know Your Worth” wouldn’t sound so anachronistic and tired. Khalid’s sleepiness adds another sense to that, and he contributes greatly to the overall competence. But although this wouldn’t have been a stand-out in 2013 regardless, the passage of time has somehow extinguished its vitality.
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