Static & Ben El, Pitbull – Further Up (Na, Na, Na, Na, Na)

“It’s been a long while since we’ve had one of our traditional “Pitbull, what the hell” moments, isn’t it?”

Tom: Do you remember Con Calma? Take a track from the 90s with a catchy chorus, remove anything controversial, change the lyrics, throw out a catchy single that’ll get airplay.

Tim: I did not remember it; I am more than a little irritated you chose to remind me of it.

Tom: Well, this Israeli pop duo have looked at that formula and thought: we can do that. And let’s get Pitbull to join in, too.

Tim: Oh no. Do we have to?

Tom: It’s been a long while since we’ve had one of our traditional “Pitbull, what the hell” moments, isn’t it?

Tim: And yet simultaneously not long enough. 

Tom: Everything about this is awful, except for the samples. The bragging about money. Rhyming “my friend Haim” and “count me in”. Literally telling the crowd to “put your hands up high and wave them from side to side”, which may be the greatest cliché in pop music.

Tim: Yeah, I’m normally okay to defend clichés – they’re clichés for a reason, they sound good – butI have literally no desire to even start defending this.

Tom: And all the actual melodies they’ve added are also… pretty bad. It’s a testament to how good that original, catchy, two-note melody is: it’s the only thing that carries this track.

Tim: Though let’s face it, it barely does that.