Critical reception
"Island Holiday" received mostly negative reviews from music critics. Mosi Reeves of Rolling Stone called the song "otherwise awful". [5] Jack Butler-Terry of Stereoboard called the song a "weak, dated attempt to bother the charts via a sample of Weezer's Island In The Sun". [6] Paul Thompson of Pitchfork wrote, "It is all but impossible to imagine a song like "Island Vacation" becoming a crossover hit, and all but impossible to imagine Wayne would make it for any other reason". [7] Reviewer Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop said the song "sounds like shit", saying, "I'm not just saying that because the track is a horrendous interpolation of Weezer's "Island in the Sun". But there are multiple portions of the song where it just sounds like Wayne has five or four different autotune layers of his voice all singing in unison, and they are not in harmony at all." [8]
In a ranking of the album's nineteen songs, Billboard 's Michael Saponara placed it at number thirteen. He penned, "Parts of the track seem to work, but others just feel like Wayne's lost on the island he's rapping about". [9]
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