Against all odds, we still have puns to spare…

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Wayne Weizhen Zhang: Damn, in the middle of a respiratory pandemic, she really did just rap, “Now they can’t breathe, somebody get them a ventilator,” didn’t she? Points for sheer audacity. 
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Will Adams: The thunderous bass helps justify the title, but the segmented hook makes the song feel even more like scattered showers.
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Oliver Maier: Rico is unstoppable when she goes throttle, but still has a tendency to flounder when she slows things down. “Lightning” exhibits this neatly, with an electrifying (hahaaaa) first minute, and then another two which feel perfunctory. 
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Alfred Soto: Moving from the demands of sung pop to the exigences of honest rap, Rico Nasty snaps and boasts over a garage-worthy bass line and the usual percussive clicks. The tension between the self-loathing admitted in the chorus and those verse boasts is very necessary.
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Leah Isobel: Rico’s sideways first verse doesn’t exactly find a pocket within Nick Mira’s antigravity-zone beat; rather, she creates her own rhythm against it. It’s a destabilizing and deeply interesting approach, almost math-rap. I wish she didn’t drop that idea as the song progresses, but the disorientation it creates lingers in the hook — “Bank account look lightning/ Lightning come and strike me if I’m lying” — is a Cheshire Cat riddle disguised as a brag.
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Nortey Dowuona: I liked this, so I guess i like it. *starts twirling on my weak toes out of the frame.*
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