Lest I sound too hip to admit liking it [
] let me explain WHY I didn't go for it. First was the autotune voice sound. I disliked that when Cher did it in
Believe in Magic, and still do. That happened early on in the song. I know some singers are just doing that with their voice, now, so maybe it wasn't autotune; I still do not like it. I have had to rerecord parts when the singer was doing a melisma and it came out like that. (BTW; I've never made it clear through a single Britney Spears song.)
Second, the song sounded like it was trying to be all things to all listeners. Sometimes that works; the first time I was aware of it and remember it being kinda cool was
Classical Gas (wow... dates me) which incorporated baroque and classical elements into a pop beat. And of course I can name a hundred others, prior and since, and people do it all the time to great benefit, but this one took it a few styles too far, and not very creatively, IMO.
Third: disjointed. It was like a Lego building whose kid decided "wait, let's put supersonic wings on it," then "add wheels, a pond and a staircase, and we're done!"
Engineering was great. No complaints there; just whoever was guiding the process was maybe misguided.
Shooshie