Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber

I loathe Pitbull with a passion and while I don't think it's a carbon copy of "Wake Me Up", I really loathe the fact that it's obviously inspired by it. But to my surprise I eventually have found myself enjoying this, although it's in a more guilty pleasure kind of way.

On first listen the first thing that struck me was that harmonica, it sounded incredibly cringeworthy at first but with more familiarity it annoyed me less. Although it still does annoy me a little. Pitbull's rapping is as useless and uninteresting as ever, although it's more tolerable than usual and I didn't notice it until I saw Hijinx's review, the pre-chorus sung by him is actually really catchy. I usually enjoy Ke$ha's music so I'm a bit disappointed she's reduced herself to collaborating with Pitbull on this kind of crud, but her chorus lifts the quality of the song up quite a bit.

Looking at this objectively it's nothing noteworthy or good but I find it fun and enjoyable every time I hear it and it's a guilty pleasure of 2013 for me. I didn't expect it to become one of the biggest hits of 2013 before it charted, but in hindsight it's easy to see why it became a big hit. I was hoping it'd flop because like Hijinx I really don't like the idea of Pitbull scoring another hit, but on the flipside I should be happy as it's one of his better efforts.

One final thing, it gets merit for actually feeling fun, as opposed to "Wake Me Up" and "Hey Brother" the folk and country inspired tracks by Avicii. The latter is dire and the complete opposite of fun, while the other one is a little fun but doesn't quite get there enough for me to enjoy it (although is getting closer to being enjoyable).
Dernière édition: 30/01/2014 01:38