The beat is better than the vocal someone should recycle it for something else. “Ohhhhl I know are sad sohngs.” I think there’s genuine sincerity behind this, somewhere, a real desire to tell the kids “don’t do what I did,” but it’s covered up with sap and vocal squeaking, and it makes it harder to buy. (The vocal tweaking on the chorus might as well be me gawking on Twitter.) But most of all, I hate that I haven’t been to Ibiza yet.Ĭassy Gress: I re-listened to “Cooler Than Me” to see if he’s always been doing that vowel thing, but if it’s there, it’s faint. I hate that we think of careers as narratives - or, even if they are, as narratives we can grasp. I hate the jiu-jitsu that takes our fears and desire for transcendence and with it, crafts an aura of invincibility around attractive people who sing tunes. (Gone, like so many ignorant sneakers.) I hate the cultural narrative of redemption. And here he is, jetting from the Balearics to the tropics, elongating his os and flashing some vibrato like those 2 Chainz features never happened. (He’s got one contender for immortality - not her fault - although Juicy J’s version is the only one on Spotify.) Turns out the rap game Michael Scott had a crazy soon expiration date. His voice - a phlegmy coo, at the careful volume of a long-distance boyfriend hoping his dormmates don’t overhear - is as thin as Paris Hilton’s, only with fewer jams. (Look at him! Bearing his shame like he ate crayons.) like He would have you believe that his mistake was in holding pop success too lightly, but I’d suggest it came a lot earlier than that, perhaps the first time he imagined a Dukie frat boy could sling hooks for rappers. But this way! It’s just a choice detail for his amply annotated redemption song. If he went full tourist, he might’ve sounded ridiculous to casual dance fans, and the heads might still be chuckling. Ya couldn’t have sold this to someone, man?īrad Shoup: How much thought went into the delivery of the title? You know Posner was hanging around cratekeepers who live to pronounce the island’s name in the ponciest way possible. It’s the rare case where craftsmanship is marred just by how irritatingly hokey the performer is. His vocal tone is even worse when it’s getting DJ Snake’d into irritants, and the weird fake accenting he’s laying on (I’m not even touching the mispronouncing of Ibiza), nor the odd sermonizing tone that sounds like he’s been listening to a lot of Laurel Canyon music. Maxwell Cavaseno: Oh man… Leave it to Mike Posner to suddenly demonstrate just how professional and downright charming Bieber’s attempts at working EDM have been. Sign me up, right? Except it’s supposed to be a dance track, and who cares about dangling conversations, especially when it’s a beat Bieber would wrinkle his nose at? I relate to a Mike Posner song, and now I’m going to take a train, find the nearest tub of pre-mixed cement on the Duke campus (for that extra je ne sais quoi), plunge my head inside and live out the rest of my hours in shame.Īlfred Soto: Now this you gotta hear: a Paul Simon talk-sing vocal and Simon-esque attempt at recording cocktail party chatter. Katherine St Asaph: I can’t hate this, or write any of the snarky critickiness I now regret even for Mike Posner, because this is a song about being 27 and washed-up in an industry where that’s entirely possible, and I relate heavily to that. Michel: Sad-sack rumination on being a one-hit wonder and the hollow aftermath of it all… made popular via a remix by some Nordic producers. Not sure this is what the Vengaboys had in mind… Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).Last year, they managed to halt the shoot of the reality show Ibiza Shore (MTV), which they felt was going to offer “a negative image of the island. The only mention of the Spanish island is made in the first line, which recalls Posner’s experience with ecstasy, casting it in a negative light.īut even that was enough to prompt action from Ibiza officials, who are determined to fight the clichés that abound about the Balearic island destination. The lyrics paint a pessimistic picture of the loneliness and sadness that surround the music industry, with a special focus on his own professional failure. He released an album in 2010 that went mostly unnoticed, and had been writing songs for other people since.īut in 2015 he managed to produce a new album whose single, ITook a Pill in Ibiza, has reached the top of the British Top 40 chart and made it to number 9 on the US Billboard’s Hot 100. Up until a few weeks ago, Mike Posner was a little-known singer from Detroit. A still from the remix music video for 'I took a pill in Ibiza' VEVO
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