Who likes plosives?
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Will Adams: “Bubble butt, bubble bubble bubble butt” is the new “Ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass.” And it’s Big Sean free!
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Alfred Soto: I’ve made this complaint often: four stars and nothing to say beyond repeating a catchphrase like tenth graders giggling about titties. No woman in sight either. Naturally. What would Eve, Nicki Minaj, or Angel Haze do with “I loaded my clip/told her not to get nervous”?
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Brad Shoup: Vulture asked Diplo for a summer playlist, so he cracked open his Rolodex and hooked them up through February. So why didn’t it occur to him to put four women on the track? I mean, as a producer, he’s one hell of a networker. Mystic whiffs at the end with a Snoop Dogg reference that she sets up as a pun, but she’s also the only one who doesn’t treat this like a paycheck. She’s in it to seduce on a track designed to neg. Anyway, there’s a case to be made that the Majors bet someone they could generate the dumbest explanations on RapGenius.
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Patrick St. Michel: If I could give out a personal musical Medal of Honor, I’d pin it right on 2 Chainz’s chest. He has plunged into a song featuring production that actually makes me squirm… not in the sense that it’s bad, but rather “Bubble Butt” features production that actually makes my skin itch, the hiccuping syllables actually making me feel sorta uncomfortable. He has, in a track featuring a really bad Tyga verse, dove in and added a rap I find fun and actually sounds good. It is the one thing getting me to listen to this. 2 Chainz, you are a hero and I have been won to your side.
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Anthony Easton: Is it just because I am a giant faggot, but has analingus lost any of its transgressive potential? Why can we not talk about anal sex play in our culture without a set of juvenile metaphors? This mentions penis-in-vagina sex with a certain amount of explicitness, and fellatio with out much problem, and when it discusses cunnilingus it has no real problems with what it’s saying — but it only smirks and hints when it comes to ass play. I mean with Bounce as a genre, it’s about shaking that ass, and something like Grace Jones “Pull Up To My Bumper” had a kind of severity. This manages to be silly without being joyful, and has none of the formal skills of Ms Jones. Minus a point for the explicitness of the gun/cock metaphor. (Empty my clip? Really?!)
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Crystal Leww: Wow, I’m definitely so surprised that Major Lazer produced this track celebrating big butts that a bunch of rappers did some uninspired verses over. (I’m being sarcastic, in case anyone can’t tell.) What a half-assed (haha get it) DJ Mustard wannabe beat.
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Rebecca A. Gowns: Major Lazer — Diplo — is a little twit, but God help me, he knows how to put sounds together. I’ll give him that. The means by which he grabs the sounds is impish, and the results are alternately charming (see: Lazerproof) and slimy. This is one of the slimier ones in a while, made way slimier by the music video, a happy cousin to Pon de Floor (also directed by Eric Wareheim). What business do these guys have splashing around in these waters? And so blithely? The video trucks in way too many terrible juxtapositions, and it only serves to underline the way that Diplo puts together pieces from other artists (i.e., shamelessly). The end result is a song+video that I find morally reprehensible, but God, the fucking chorus grabs a hold of my ear despite every fiber of my consciousness rebelling.
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