The Daily Spin, April 29
Betty Who | Take Me When You Go
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Album: Take Me When You Go (2014)
Artist: Betty Who
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I know her most notably for a remix done of her feature with Lemaitre, ‘Rocket Girl’, but it’s clear that that was, at best, a toe dipped into the ocean that is her career.
The good: delightfully peppy, with enough of a driving beat behind it that it doesn’t feel stale. The album is wonderfully accepting, with clear allusions to queerness that would form the building blocks for entire albums later in her body of work. It’s electro-pop in one of its finest forms, with just enough of both genres to never spill over too far into either.
The bad: Gives distinct airs of Carly Rae Jepsen-lite - this is Emotion, but without the punch and the oomph that sets that album apart from the rest. It’s good, never great. It knows the lane it wants to stay in - and that’s fine, but it does leave me wanting more at the end of the day, because it feels like untapped potential when I’m looking at an hour of roughly the same sound.
Rating: 8.0/10
Best Tracks: Runaways; Better
Worst Tracks: Somebody Loves You; Alone Again