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Iain Mew: Her relentless effervescence could be an asset in a different song, but it would need more distinguishing hooks or better lines.
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Jonathan Bogart: I don’t know that I’m particularly interested in making Mendler a test case for the utter whitewashing of pop - though, eighteen years after the Fugees (and forty-four years after the Delfonics), this nasal white teenager singing in imitation Caribbean raises all kinds of alarm bells - not least because the half-hearted island soul here is at least as infectious as the half-hearted electro-rock of Selena Gomez or the half-hearted dramatic anthems of Demi Lovato. Will Adams: “I like your face do you like my song?” is now my new pickup line.
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Me, I’m more taken with those 2000s record skips. The sunny competence’s all the better to find you, and you and you and you. Katherine St Asaph: Mendler, a non-entity unless Lemonade Mouth or Good Luck Charlie mean something to you, introduces herself with a single nominally about an everygirl getting a BMOC boyfriend but really about a Disney girl getting a crossover hit: “Ready or not, here I come… do you like my song? My name is Bridgit….” Bridgit, like everyone, is quite the magpie, collecting pop-culture references both musical (the Fugees’ “Ready or Not,” with which this shares a title and melody) and verbal (William and Kate, Oprah, BFF-SMS colloquialisms like “I like your face”), tricking out her vocal with splayed vibrato and affected patois and voicemail spoken-word, dropping out whenever words fail the hook. That has as much relation to the Fugees as this song, and also its target demographic was probably born after they disbanded. There was this Animorphs book where one of the kids asks her parents for permission to buy the new Fudgies and Nice is Neat CDs.