Paolo Nutini – Scream (Funk My Life Up!)

May 1, 2014

Is that Jonathan Banks…?


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Will Adams: With such sleaziness don’t it make you wanna scream?
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Katherine St Asaph: I think we mixed up today’s tracks. This is obviously Girl Talk pilfering “Safe From Harm” so undergrads can mutter “smoking my green” while the ZZ Top guy yowls away.
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David Sheffieck: This would slot in perfectly on late-90s adult contemporary radio, just funky enough (it’s in the title so you know it’s there!) to differentiate itself from Rob Thomas or Counting Crows, but not challenging enough to take any attention away from the morning commute when the radio’s tuned to the local wacky morning show.
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Brad Shoup: Even twerps can get soul menace right; check the Keys. A supremely busy bass and a vaguely West Coast hip-hop intro help put this over, but Nutini putting on the harness helps too. And did he say “spider milk?” Am I not human?
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Alfred Soto: This bro has studied his Dave Sitek and Dap Kings, not to mention every received metaphor describing that bad bitch who won’t return for a second fuck after listening to your bullshit.
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Scott Mildenhall: For such an ostensibly boring musician, Paulo Nutini does have some good songs. This is not one of them. The mondegreen suggests playfulness, and it does sound like he’s having fun, but from this end it’s about as funky as Daniel O’Donnell. Funky like coffee made with out-of-date milk, maybe.
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Iain Mew: This sounds like the worst Beck single ever. Its alarming use of misogyny as appeal to authenticity just adds one more way for it to be out of date.
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