Cheat Codes & Dante Klein - Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On)

Back in April this year I made a joke that the charts would look like this in July, just to take a mockery of all the oddities in the charts at the time https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cfatqn5UAAAQznC.jpg

THIS SONG WAS RELEASED ON JULY 1ST

Given the way of their previous single, when this came out, I refused to listen to any more than 29 seconds of it, because I didn't want to feed into lazy Spotify stats that I knew it would inevitably get. I mean, this has been listened to some 200 million times on Spotify alone, that's the hierarchy we get in a world where people cannot freely listen to Beyonce.

The thing is that "Turn Me On" is always a song I hear high praises of as a throwback to its time, and it's something I can appreciate but I just cannot get past Kevin Lyttle's weedy voice that feels out of place on it. Cheat Codes put a bit more energy into it, but the tone of his voice just doesn't sit right with me.

So lo and behold but what ends up salvaging this track for me is the tropical elements, with the pan flute breakdown feeling at least a little more inspired than the usual affair. Given that it's already a dancehall song, it's not much of a jarring shift to update it to a modern audience. I mean it's still cynical, lazy & indicative of the worst of modern music trends, but it has enough of a rush to it that I don't find it boring, so there's that.