SRS JAMZ: Mayer Hawthorne - "Don't Turn The Lights On" (Chromeo Cover)

Perhaps a new feature where review tracks that qualify as jams.

What's a jam?

Jam - (n.) SLANG - often preceded by BONER, a jam is a track that enhances or encourages the human sex act





ANDY: All you need is to take a sassy disco burner and slow it the fuck down and you have the baby makin'est tune in recent memory. There are some Weeknd cuts that qualify, another recent obsession of mine, but this jam is as delightfully surprising as Mayer Hawthorne's remix of Snoop Dogg's "Gangsta Luv".

The leap is perhaps more natural from hip hop to r & b, but in both cases Hawthorne's attention to detail and crisp Motown renditions arguably outshine the original. I mean Chromeo's lyrics weren't meant for a dancefloor, they were CLEARLY made for a bedroom, and is not a crisp soul man is clearly more "gangsta" than the auto-tuned Mr. Dream? In both cases, it's as if Mayer Hawthorne gently reminds the original artists of the supremacy of his preferred genre, but with "Don't Turn The Lights On" he completely reimagines the song rather than just switching production styles. Top notch. (8.5)


Mayer Hawthorne - Don't Turn The Lights On (Chromeo Cover) by WHATZOOEVER