Heads will roll remix project x6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Taylor Swift Will Get Extra 'Karma' Points With Ice Spice Remix Offset Still Finds It Too Painful to Talk About Takeoff: 'I Get Through My Day Thinking It's Fake' The strongest offering is the final track, the ESG-gone-gentrified instrumental “Bloodwork,” if only because Smith’s petulant vocal takes a back seat it sounds tailor-made for soundtracking a streaming series’ set piece that follows a chemically altered beautiful person’s descent into some personal hell.īill Lee, Jazz Bassist and Father of Spike Lee, Dead at 94 The burbling “Sex” has a slightly more existential bent, although the “I’m Too Sexy” cadence of lines like “Sex, to me/It’s just a mystery/And a lie we tell” give the joke away its laptop-grime-covered coda does at least provide a neat sonic wrinkle. Debut single “Girls” has a Rapture-via- The Man Show feel, its horniness trying to come off as nonchalant, but mostly feeling joyless. ![]() More than 12-ish minutes, The Sex EP rages through a karaoke bar stocked with blogged-about cuts from 20 years ago, with maybe a 1975 track thrown in for current-relevance measure. Listening to The Sex EP doesn’t do much to ease the feeling that the songs are only tangential to Smith’s nascent project’s overall point. The Dare, which released its debut EP last week, feels like a musical pseudo-event, existing only for the purpose of feeding its perpetual-motion publicity machine. To even comment on the Dare, the provoca-pop project of 27-year-old private-school substitute teacher turned downtown NYC enfant celebre Harrison Patrick Smith, is to have lost the game. TheDareEPRelease TheDareEPRelease.jpg - Credit: Ben Taylor ![]()
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