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Brad Shoup: Yet another classic headslapping lyrical concept. But the twist is they’re done with it after chorus one. Then, the second twist: the female Square is down for it! It! Sex! They’ve fired up the Mellencamp… it’s bone time.
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Anthony Easton: The two match desires, step for step — and no matter what he or she shouldn’t be thinking about, they are gonna do everything they shouldn’t be doing. The long guitar stretches, with the hint of rock and roll bump and grind, make the whole thing a touch hotter. Polite, but delightful.
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Edward Okulicz: How fantastic, a country “Afternoon Delight.” Except without the sex and the fun and the whimsy.
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Josh Langhoff: It’s cutesy, yes, but also really close to “The Rainbow” by the similarly cheery Apples in Stereo. The arrangement’s a gem, particularly the stripped down chorus following the guitar solo, and with any justice Tully Kennedy’s song-shaping bassline will get a tab in Bass Player.
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Katherine St Asaph: This sounds unnervingly like “One Thing.” Fitting, or just wrong?
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Alfred Soto: Verses and choruses interlock with such precision that I wanted to award this track a high grade on formalist ground alone. The organ washes and guitar work too. The weak link? The vocals revel in anonymity.
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Jonathan Bradley: Two singers was a smart move; neither is up to carrying this song alone. The verses are the kind of napkin scratchings that suggest they’re only there to occupy time until it’s no longer indecent to replay the chorus. For that to work, you need a chorus worth waiting for. This one isn’t.
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Frank Kogan: Pleasant enough bit o’ summer shimmer, guitar crunch skillfully worked in without cluttering up the atmosphere. But somewhere some six-year-old is listening to this and thinking, “People who have sex are boring.”
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