Tyler, the Creator – Sugar on My Tongue

We won’t tap the glass, but we will blurb it…

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Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Probably more like a [7] in laboratory conditions, but the dryness of the contemporary pop environs makes me appreciate this even more — I heard this on pop radio a couple of nights ago and it felt like a revelation, a squelching, funky moment of ascension to the godhead. I prefer Tyler in smugger modes (“WUSYANAME” is one of the great songs of this decade) but here his pleading rings true.
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Claire Davidson: It’s hard to complain when Tyler, the Creator crafts a deliberately infectious song, and “Sugar on My Tongue” is almost immediately likable: the dirty double entendres on the hook, the call-and-response pre-chorus, and a full smitten Tyler all make for a worthy two and a half minutes. That said, the song does have a couple of lingering issue: for one, Tyler’s reedy speak-singing, even if it fits the delirious infatuation he chronicles, doesn’t have quite the energy that would best suit the track; for another, the grainy quality of both the synths and percussion can get pretty tiresome by the track’s end. Yet these are secondary gripes that pale in comparison to the track’s biggest limitation: for such a giddy song, the woozy, spare bridge slows “Sugar on My Tongue” down considerably, resulting in a rapid whiplash a track this short can’t really accommodate.
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Tim de Reuse: He’s been doing his own post-Odd Future stuff for so long that his avant-garde production chops have come to feel pretty standard to my ears. I can’t help but notice that under the very Tylerian clutter of overinflated kicks and whiny synthesizers there’s just a simple, lean tune without a lot of tricks past that (admittedly delicious) one-beat delay on the word “Tongue.”
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Nortey Dowuona: I don’t understand why people keep trying to get Tyler to have other people produce his own music when so many producers can’t think to double up on kicks, if they’re not going to have either hi hat/snare rolls or place the snare or hi hat or bongos and timbales in interesting places in the pattern. But if these guys were willing to produce the next one, I’d be interested.
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Ian Mathers: It’s perverse, but I’m convinced that someone could do a really fun/funny mashup of this and the Talking Heads song of the same name. It probably wouldn’t be better, but I would like to hear it.
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Alfred Soto: Not as lascivious as Trick Daddy’s Talking Heads-sampling freakout two decades ago, and not especially what I expect from this comma, creator.
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Alex Clifton: DJ Khaled could never. 
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