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Not loving a song, at least a bit, essentially celebrating the fairer sex’s ability to, y’know, move in certain appealing ways is to deny your most red-blooded desires: every man – hip-hop, indie, soap opera – with heterosexual feelings flowing through their veins is, largely, powerless to resist scanning an eye or both over what even The Beatles could summarise as a ‘wiggling’. It’s natural, so don’t feel embarrassed; if they didn’t want you to look they wouldn’t do that.
But Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Flex’ is rather too into the topic – three minutes of our protagonist stating how much he loves to see ladies “jiggling” _and how he wants to _“get right in” grates rather, and the overall feel is similar to the unsavoury content of an Outhere Brothers track – our Dylan is just a few vowels off ‘Boom Boom Boom’ so far as conveyed sentiments go. Rather than sitting on the bonnet of a fancy sports car in the accompanying promo video, one almost expects Dizzee to be lurking in the shadows of a grime club in a dirty mack. All Richie Bottom noises. Eww.
On the plus side though, Reggie Yates. From kids telly to Radio 1 to Doctor Who to this. Excellent.
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From the archive
totally agree with this review
i (for my sins) used to really like DR's grimier leanings but hes just a bit of an embarrassment now
Not a Sin
The first album is amazing, anyone that disagrees is categorically wrong. He has been declining ever since tho...
Sirens was class
Rest of the album full of clichéd gangster posturing, generic beats and premium tack.
Yes!
We're all heterosexual males here, and anyone who claims otherwise is a liar!
Hmmmm - DiSagree
I've just been listening to Maffs n English on the way in and I gotta say - I like this track. I think it will be 'blowin up' dance floors across the nation giving kids in their nike bubbles toting gun signs ample opportunity to shake their groins at bootylicious ladies doing similarly. It's mating music for the bubblegum kids. I also think that most of the album was class and the antithesis of gangster posturing. Though the beef with Wiley's really got to stop!


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