re: New galactic singer?

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Melt is incomplete without mentioning Shaw.

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There are few things that give me as many embarrassment goosebumps as when boomer moms describe things (usually an asymmetrical haircut, a slightly weird blouse, a terra cotta tea pot, or a vase with watercolour red chilies painted on the side) as “funky.” And while that adjective doesn’t always intersect with the actual genre of funk music, it does on Galactic’s new single “Dolla Diva.”


The song is at once funky and “funky,” a mess of derivative fuzz bass and funk guitar, plus some endlessly goofy white-boy sing-rapping. That’s all well and bad, but the lyrics bring it to the next level of cheese, and that title alone is some deeply disturbing funky mom material.

The phrase “Dolla Diva” is the sort of thing that’d be encrusted with shitty plastic diamonds on a tiara that someone would give to their coworker, a self-described cougar who trawls dollar stores for discount leopard print martini glasses and super-cateye reading glasses, at a Secret Santa.

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