Meanwhile, the video to this is the worst thing you’ll ever see.
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Hazel Robinson: An enthusiastic but strangely sexless anthem to doing it real good whose Carry On-level video doesn’t make me any more convinced there’s any actual fucking on the cards.
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Anthony Easton: I think I really love this, although it might be that juvenile and visual double entendres are my thing.
[7]
Katherine St Asaph: “We Love” comes off like an Iron Chef challenge: how much of a song can Sneaky Song System write while using an arpeggiated “we love” sting hundreds of times? They try a few tricks: writing the rest of the melody as a children’s-song chant, adding innuendo about biting bananas and getting another lover, urging the audience to nod to the relentless rhythm. But there’s still that one ingredient—five raw onions, maybe, or a cup of cilantro—and it’s all you notice.
[5]
Ian Mathers: The song’s about as clever as the wonderful eyeroll Connie Mitchell gives in the video after the other guy points approvingly at a cock: entertaining, but gleefully lowbrow with a slight but definite hint that they’re capable of more. But Mitchell’s voice is still wonderful, Black Angus’ production is still basic-but-entertaining electronic bounce, and the chorus is just as solidly catchy as the one that endeared “U.F.O.” to me years ago. I can’t say I was pining to hear Sneaky Sound System in the intervening time, but it’s surprisingly good to have them back on the Jukebox.
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Michaela Drapes: Unfortunately, the first thing I could think was, “Well, this is a less unpleasant and insidious “We Like to Party“, isn’t it?” That’s not entirely fair; the spare, boingy beats, handclaps, and naughty, shouty delivery are clearly above average. Sneaky Sound System are no slouches; they’ve done really excellent stuff in the past. But I just can’t shake the feeling that the vengabus got lost in the Outback, and this was the result.
[5]
Edward Okulicz: Thudding, and more charming than hooky owing to Connie Mitchell’s endless charisma. If it’s guilty of anything, it’s that it relaxes into a cool groove and doesn’t move too much from it. Not that the elements placed on top of the repetition aren’t fun; the nagging taunt of the melody is good, albeit damaged by some questionable lyrics (“shiny banana,” wtf?). But it’s not too much more than a pretty pleasant listen, wanting for the massive chorus that’s usually a staple of Sneaky’s singles.
[7]
Jonathan Bradley: The faux-patois is more baffling than obnoxious — though it is that too. What would possess Connie Mitchell to highlight the track’s stiff gestures at dub?
[3]
Alex Ostroff: “We Love” first struck me as utterly boring. The vocal line is repetitive and mechanical, the lyrics are inane and the tempo seems too slow to dance to properly. A minute in, the voices loop and layer, the beat picks up slightly and I am slowly charmed by lines about bananas, electric sitar squiggles and the overenunciated vocals. I still wish this were a couple clicks faster, though.
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