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by grokys 45 days ago
I hope you're trolling.
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Actually not! Lyrics aside, it's a banger.l, especially towards the end. If this was crated by any tech house/electro flash producer, Tiga for example, it would be huge.
But this song is an entire composition that includes lyrics, and there isn't much left of it with those lyrics cast aside.

It's got no hook.

Did you listen to the end of that video? That's where i got surprised, the lyrics were just a build up.
The bar or two of synth right at the end? The part they cut off almost as soon as it began, that happened right after the lazy lyrics about "British tube with a middle east zest"?

Yeah, I heard that. It was so "good" that dude-man here stopped playing the track when it showed up. ;)

If there is something good to this composition (which, again, is inclusive of its lyrics), then that goodness is the mechanical dryness of it all -- which is absurdly profound.

And to be clear, I'm very OK with mechanical music and also with absurd music. These things can be a lot of fun.

The absurdity-level mechanality could have been a hook in and of itself with a bit of occasional embellishment. There was an obvious play-on-words about "British tube meat" that wasn't explored at all.

   "British tube meat at its absolute best"
and then, for the next break

   "My British tube meat is a dripping mess"
Lines like these basically write themselves. They would help to complete a hilariously absurd mental image, and yet they were somehow just beyond the grasp of the bot.

So the song's got no hook. It can't even succeed at being background noise because the missed opportunities shine so brightly that they're impossible to ignore.

2/10. Needs work. (In this way, it's very similar to the vibe-coded stuff I fuck around with.)