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Crystal Leww: What a bunch of poorly behaved teens!
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Will Adams: The structurally top-heavy “Ah Yeah So What” plays all of its cards early, providing harmless and enjoyable stadium dance music. After 1:20, though, you’ve heard the best, and there’s no reason to keep listening.
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Brad Shoup: The mangle of Levon, the rise and Wiley’s exhortation almost makes something worth rubbernecking. But Sparksy doesn’t know what he has: the vocals smacking like that’s-that handclaps and the phrase “ass to ass,” the combination of which ought to be destroying a music publication near you.
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Alfred Soto: The title hook is what Wiley told himself as he accepted the dough for this stutter-house drivel.
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Anthony Easton: Manic, with the ass-shaking working as a bedrock to a scream-if-you-want-to-go-faster kind of pure energy. It’s not so much fun as clawing its way into the idea of fun.
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Micha Cavaseno: We’re still not over the fidget house thing? Wha? This is still happening? Good grief. Ah well, at least we have Eskiboy. Would’ve been better if Flirta D had been hired to do the “AH YEAH!“
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Jonathan Bradley: Wiley, squarely in laddish mode, ushers barrel-chested bass into territory even more lairy than it was originally — the “ah yeah” vocal sample no longer sounding simply amicable now that it’s required to play hypeman. “Always gonna find me chasing ladies,” Wiley chirrups alongside a loping beat and carnivalesque cut-up vocal sample that combine to almost make him sound agreeable. It’s too boisterous for Elen Levon though, who, whether bumper-to-bumper or ass-to-ass, just sounds crowded.
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Iain Mew: Wiley’s been the best thing on his own pop dance tracks plenty of times, so it’s disappointing that he barely adds anything to “Ah Yeah So What”. It remains a trinket with a fantastic bouncy bwwwwwwwow sound but no plan to make the best of it.
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Katherine St Asaph: Remember how I have objectively abysmal taste in EDM and you should never trust mSO WHAT UH AH AH OH OHHHHHH AHAHAHAH UH UH UH OH OHHHHHHHHHH AUUUWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Megan Harrington: I’m a big proponent of the shower beer — intoxication aside, it’s one of life’s cheap pleasures to pair cold carbonation with hot water. “Ah Yeah So What” makes me long for a hot tub on a snow covered pastoral hillside. Imagine the shocking delight of turning your limbs from brittle sticks to jelly tangles and you’ll be close to the level of sensory disorientation Will Sparks conjures.
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