Mura Masa said about the recording of "Love$ick":"The first thing he [ASAP Rocky] said was that it made him feel really tropical,like he was in Ibiza or something and I was like,'OK let's roll with that'. But then I said to him that it was about being stupid and feeling lovesick and hanging over a girl and he brought that to it as well. It was super fun,it was wild,we hung out,smoked cigarettes,talked about fashion and Tame Impala."[2]
Composition
"Love$ick" is a vocal version of a previous instrumental track titled "Lovesick",[3] which was released in his debut EPSomeday Somewhere. Mura Masa said that "the track originally was about sex and how I was feeling after a particularly empty encounter with a friend told through a kind of twisted-pop,calypso,hip hopdance track".[4]
Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian called the original instrumental "jazzy" and "tropical".[5] Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times that the song is "built on a Caribbean-tinged beat and a four-bar loop of a piano that soon switches its sound to steel drums".[6] Collin Robinson of Stereogum opined that "Rocky injects the bouncy percussion and steel-drummed Caribbean vibes with some steez".[7]Rap-Up described the song as "soulful and electronic,calypso-tinged,rap-infused".[8] Eve Barlow of Pitchfork called it "airhorn-assisted calypso".[9]
Critical reception
El Hunt of DIY said:"No revolutionary new angles come from this guest spot,but it's a statement of intent all the same".[10]
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