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Mura Masa & Lil Uzi Vert & PinkPantheress featuring Shygirl “Bbycakes”

I’m not sure I get the major label logic of officially listing Shygirl as the featured artist on this song when she sings about as much as Lil Uzi Vert and PinkPantheress on this Mura Masa track, I suppose it’s because she sings the most memorable part of the hook? In any case, as much as this probably looks like a pile up of random young artists this song feels remarkably organic and effortlessly catchy. I’m sure you could argue a lot about where this lands in genre terms, but I think broadly this is a pleasing intersection of Lil Uzi Vert’s melodic singsong style and a post-PC Music/hyperpop aesthetic that’s like an uncanny valley version of pop for weird digital children. As in a lot of hyperpop music the childlike affect gets subverted by adult concerns – in this case, a suggestion that all three singers are chafing against the restrictions of monogamy and negotiating some kind of polycule situation.

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