Snake Oil, Diplo's take on country music, is a bummer: Review
— born Thomas Wesley Pentz — has been a master of distilling genres like Miami bass, baile funk, and dancehall into instantly grabbable songs that could captivate sweaty club kids and casual fans alike. On his second proper studio album, Diplo looks closer to home, claiming to take on country music withIt's a savvy move by Diplo, who debuted his Thomas Wesley persona at 2019's Stagecoach Festival.
and Kane Brown have lent their voices to big-tent electro-pop; and singers like the captivating Cam have forged their own path with nervy, smoldering tracks that are rooted in Dolly and the dance floor.with "So Long," which places her quivering question-mark voice above a slightly Southern-fried redo of Clean Bandit's string-forward 2014 hit "Rather Be.
The most dominant concepts, in fact, seem excavated from burned-out pop tropes of the 2010s. "Dance With Me," which pairs swaggering Nashville scion Thomas Rhett with surrealistic MC Young Thug, has the sort of lite-reggae beat that dominated pop radio during the mid-2010s, with any vocal idiosyncrasies ironed out in service of the wordless hook. "Heartless" layers a bit of twang amidst its trap snares and weepy slide guitar.
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