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Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)

by Elton John & Dua Lipa

Just to pull aside the curtain on my The Mix Review creative process for a moment, whenever I sit down to write a new batch of critiques, I usually start by just listening to several different tracks one after the other, jotting down any immediate first impressions while I decide what productions feel most interesting to write about.

Let me tell you what I wrote for this track (no word of a lie): “Oh my god, this is so boring! Any idea what lyrics he’s singing in the opening verse? Dua Lipa sounds really, really bored.” Honestly, this has ‘contractual obligation’ and/or ‘cross-promotional cash-in’ written all over it, so even though it’s too late for me, please save yourself by investing those few minutes of your listening life into something more worthwhile!

Such as, perhaps, watching Elton John and Ed Sheeran being railroaded into parodying their own Christmas charidee single while eating sausage rolls. It’s cringe-comedy gold!