All of the facets of this song and it's accompanying video are extremely interesting. The music is immediately capturing and likeable (no growing needed here! See below post for explanation), the Windowlicker-style graphics transforming the beautiful faces of three lovely ladies into even more exquisite creations only a mother could love, the pupil-dilating array of colours splashed all over the video - this does make for a nice little distraction.
It does use the "You Are Not Alone" sample to a better effect than it has been raped of late, and that admittedly is what first draws the listener in. It's probably time for that song to be left alone for a few more years now - overlistening is not a pretty sight. On further journalistic quality research (thank you Wikipedia), the artist, Major Lazer, is a collaboration between American (and excellent) DJ Diplo off-of-formerly-boning-M.I.A.-and-now-blates-Santigold and his Jamaican friend Switch.
Their entire album features Jamaican dancehall artists, and while we cannot pass judgement on their music, dancehall is notoriously known for being one of the most ardently homophobic mainstream cultural signposts in the Western world, so we're not going to get too into that. For what it is, this song isn't bad, the video is fabulous (nice to see they found Rachael from X Factor a job so quickly!), give it a go.
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