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Micha Cavaseno: After the heights of “View,” SHINee plunge into more of a disco-strut that comes off a little too Staying Alive (the film, not the song). Their vocal performances are fine, but the overall production is so sticky-slick and stiff that it’s like someone poured a vat of maple syrup in the mixing desk without telling anyone.
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Patrick St. Michel: The senses-blurring “View” is still fresh in my mind, which hurts the less dizzying “Married to the Music” a little bit. This one’s a little more direct, focused on pure celebration, and everyone involved nails it. It’s a song about connecting with someone while dancing that captures the stupid joy of realizing hey, this is happening come the chorus, a huge confetti-explosion of a hook. Even the goofy breakdown — those tongue rolls! — fits the joyful mood.
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Alfred Soto: And his husband is Bruno Mars.
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Thomas Inskeep: I love the “Up with People”-ness of this, its relentless optimism and perkiness (YMMV), but wish there were more to it than, basically, “I’m married to the music.” Reminiscent of *NSync and Backstreet before either wanted to be “artists” (cf. “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back),” only even more major-key).
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Jonathan Bogart: Sounding like an album track buried on the second side of Off the Wall? Why yes, I am exactly that easy.
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Brad Shoup: It plays like half of Pitchfork’s ’80s list, which… no complaints. I bet Ciara could’ve had fun with this track: a bouncy, snappy, reasonably live-sounding disco/funk amalgam. SHINee pour all their magnificent timbres into a disturbingly observed reverie on the dancefloor.
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