Glass clink and exhaustion

Still compiling my Top 100, and RaNia's "Masquerade" keeps crawling higher: chintzy little dance track, sounds a bit wasted, mid-'80s late-night glass clink and exhaustion, ghetto cuties not concealing the wear 'round the edges, and no one bothering with Autotune. I was disappointed by the rhythm sculpture Teddy Riley did for SNSD, and was outright bored by the one with Jay Park; on this track he seems to reach back deeper, the disco sound adapted for immigrant northern New Jersey. (Yes, I know the group is actually from Seoul, not Union City; I'm just trying to wave my hand at a feeling.)

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