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Riff: Yung Lean – “Crystal Clear Ice”

Jul 7, 2015

The loud makes me slow, man/I do this for my snowman/I don’t want to answer/I don’t like to use my phone, man

from Crystal Clear Ice lyrics by Yung Lean

The audible equivalent to brain freeze, except that in this instance the results are permanent. The space age beat is woefully simple, so much so that anyone with a synth and a computer could duplicate it. Lyrically it’s like a Happy Meal, and the toy inside is not worth the plastic used to make it.

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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