See, this is what happens when you don’t credit your female singers: not only does Ed Sheeran keep you from going number one in Finland but the Jukebox doesn’t really like your song…
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Claire Biddles: The disco-lite rhythm guitar tips this from corny-but-ok into genuinely bad, and the worldwide trend of not crediting the female singer who’s carrying your whole song is getting really boring.
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Crystal Leww: Neither Mäkki nor Pyhimys felt it necessary to credit the woman on the hook, which is a shame because she’s easily the most listenable part of this song. Otherwise, this is just rap set over a FruityLoops — that’s right, not even FL Studio — beat.
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Jonathan Bradley: Neither Mäkki nor Pyhimys rap with any feel or character; each has the stiff flow of an earnest novice, the kind of delivery premised on the late night comedian’s notion that rap is a method of saying words quickly and rhythmically, and not a creative endeavor. An uncredited singer does better with the hook, though even that is a version of “better” that tops out at faint memories of Latin disco from a vacation decades previous.
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Will Adams: The singer’s appealingly thin voice reminds me of Phoebe Ryan, and she’s easily the best part of “Mixet Tahdo.” Without her credit, we’re left to pay attention to mediocre raps and stale synths that recall that unfortunate time when Lasgo went electro.
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Tim de Reuse: A beat so eerily similar in character to “Axel F” that I had to go take a listen to it to make sure they weren’t somehow using a sample of it in there somewhere. I’m pretty sure they’re not, but it’s got synth tom rolls and chirpy buzzing saw waves that get the same effect going: cheesy and dated, but in a pretty fun way.
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Katherine St Asaph: An evocative throwaway Europop track, which is a nice cheap thrill until you remember Europop has historically included throwaway Euro-rappers.
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Edward Okulicz: This sounds amateurish, badly produced and without any personality, and even the hook singer sounds like a zombie. You wouldn’t know it from this, but the cascading syllables of Finnish are really suited to rap, here neither Mäkki nor Pyhimys sound suited for more than four bars as a guest verse on a dance track.
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