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Riff: Bilal – “Lunatic”

Jun 30, 2015

The next time on the dance floor/A crazy lunatic I’m knocking down the door/Shot of the guns sound like music to my ears/Why is everyone running I just wanted to dance

from Lunatic lyrics by Bilal

If you rendered down Prince, Missy Elliott and Saul Willaims into musical porridge you’d have Bilal. It’s a strange arrangement and a bit heavy handed, but well taken. Production wise it’s trying to keep up but it’s too far outside Younge’s comfort zone to resonate. Good idea, poorly executed.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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