Middling, more like…
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Ian Mathers: Perfectly serviceable if undistinguished dance backing, densely repetitive, effects-laden singing, simple lyrics that plainly but effectively convey a relatable emotional state: the formula for the kind of song I’m never sad to hear playing out but am never going to queue up myself.
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Claire Davidson: Even if you’ve never heard “High On Me” before, you’ve likely heard dozens of songs that sound exactly like it: bog-standard house beat, thin lyrical evocations of days-long infatuation, and a repetition of the titular phrase so extensive that its words turn to mush in the span of three minutes. It’s a shame, because vocalist Jazzy has an interesting vocal timbre, but any unique texture her sultrier tone could provide is swallowed whole by the bassier synths in the mix.
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Nortey Dowuona: Rossi is fucking trash. His drums are so flat and have no groove. They put so much compression on the kick, it’s ins– wait, the music stopped?
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Iain Mew: I like the bit where it goes all drifty and layered in the middle, including making more of Jazzy’s strong vocal but cutting it up a bit more thoughtfully. It’s a shame Rossi immediately follows that with an incredibly weak drop and retreats into familiar hooky safety.
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Alfred Soto: I won’t resist a “Show Me Love” bass line, even though the singing ends up on the anonymous side of anonymous dance vocalizing.
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Jel Bugle: It’s alright, a “club banger,” but not particularly interesting — a bit like every other club banger.
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Katherine St. Asaph: Is the difference between the half-assery of “No Broke Boys” and the half-assery of “High on Me” really just nocturnal minor-key synths and a cymbal pattern that may have actually time-traveled from 2000? Guess so.
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Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: I could hear this a near infinite number of times without getting annoyed with it. This is not an endorsement.
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