Remixing Others Music To Make Your Own
This song will be very hard to review: on one hand the song oozes with catchy parts and has a very addicting club sound, but on the other hand it lacks any musical depth or variety. So I’ll start with the facts. Kyla is a R&B singer songwriter whose song Do You Mind is the inspiration for One Dance (as far as I can tell). It sounds like One Dance is just a remix of Kyla’s original with his rap and hook put over it with a few other minor alterations and a tempo change. He does a good job, and I personally think he improves on the original. But the fact that it is claiming to be it’s own song is difficult to accept. The songs percussion, piano part and ambience is practically identical, which shows that this song does not stem from his own creativity. But on the other hand, he does transform the song just enough that is a better song than the original. Now on to the actual music. The beat is exactly what you would hear in the club, the piano and other bits and sample are good, and very addictive, but also terribly repetitive: from beginning to the end it is the same 10 second clip more or less. Kyla singing is good enough, and WizKid is faintly in the background to add a little bit of flavor. Drake does a better job than in other songs, the hook is great, but it is odd to just hear the same thing over and over again, even for club music, this song seems too repetitive. I could be really critical on this song, but it just sounds good, no matter how you look at it, the parts are kind of good. I’ll leave this one to you guys, what do you think? I’ll put my personal review here, but I totally see why this song would get either an 8 or a 3 out of 10.
Originality:6
Instruments:6
Vocals:7
Longevity:5
Red Score:6
(Because the song is restricted in certain ways, it's not on youtube yet. Sorry. Yu can listen to it on i-tunes and google play that I know of. I did link Kyla's original song so you can hear that at least)
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