Kid Cudi vs Crookers: 'Day N' Nite'
Depending on where it is you lay your musical hat, Kid Cudi will either have been the hottest name on your lips for months or someone you’d frankly never heard of before, until that is ‘Day ‘N’ Nite’ took over the radio a few weeks ago.
The question is; does this single (and the eight-strong army of supportive remixes that follow it on my copy) merit the airplay it’s been given? The answer, to me at least, is no it doesn’t.
Yes, aspects of this song have been superbly produced and yes this song will fill more dance-floors than most, but that’s as much due to a throbbing bass beat than it is the rest of the make-up of what is a simplistic club song representative of the sort of artist that will be gone faster than they arrived.
Perhaps I’m being unfair, perhaps indeed Kid Cudi’s hype-machine owes as much to the quality of his other material but my job is to review ‘Day ‘N’ Nite’, a song that doesn’t show anything that I’ve not heard before and won’t hear again.
Ultimately, and this is not to down-play the rather loose genre of dance music and the computers that open up the sort of possibilities that experts of the field expand upon, this single sounds like it was made on a computer. Well produced but over-simplified and without heart, ‘Day ‘N’ Night’ is a song that is too easily forgotten.
3/10
Review by Benjamin Coley
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