RAJ: I feel kind of bad for Zomby here. Dude clearly went all out to create a banger that's begging for a grime rapper to drop a double-time verse on it - what he gets is a bored Panda Bear half asleep on the couch after chugging too much Nyquil. Also: this never bugged me too much on Tomboy because the actual music is good enough to make it irrelevant, but why can't Panda Bear just go all Sigur Ros and sing beautiful nonsense? What he does instead is sing incredibly obvious/dumb lyrics as if they're some earth-shattering cosmic epiphany. "Things fall apart that are meant to last - no one knows why"? Look up entropy and pass the Funyuns, bro. (2)
ANDY: Definitely better in theory than in practice, this song ends up mostly repetitive, where it could have been intriguing. Thom Yorke would have knocked it out of the park. (4)
PAT: Andy, I kinda have to agree with you on that one -- at least Thomboy can legitimately change up his vocal rhythm and delivery. Lennox would benefit from some quality time learning how to spit real bubblegum with Scatman John... or maybe Zomby should just include Scatman John on his next collaboration. (4)
JESSE: Remember when there was a lot of debate about Kanye West on here? Oof. Everything about the song's already painfully bad, but i think Kanye might actually make it, dare I say, worse. #theregoesyourindiecred (0)
ANDY: Gross.
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RAJ: If I hadn't paid attention to the lyrics, I probably would have thrown this like a 4 or a 5 - as shallow dance-pop goes, you can do a hell of a lot worse than this. But beyond the obvious fact that Kanye's verse is phoned-in/dumb (and come on, what else would you expect from this kind of thing?), this song seems pretty actively racist to me! It's a duet where Katy Perry is fantasizing about being raped by an alien whose touch is "so foreign" or whatever, where the alien is basically just a black person (Kanye). Meanwhile, Kanye seems perfectly happy fulfilling the black-savage-out-to-ravish-white-women stereotype with his verses. Not cool! (0)
PAT: Why the pointless Matthew Barney reference in the video? Merely a confirmation that Katy Perry is trying to out art-house Lady Gaga, and failing miserably. Point for cheetah woman Aimee Mullins, though... RAWR! (1)
