We can start from the beginning to assess why this song has no star power: it stars Waka Flocka freakin Flame. And that was just entirely, entirely the wrong choice for a song like this. I mean, you could have chosen... wait.
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6368930
That's how low we've sunk, people. JUICY J would have been a better choice for this song!
I mean, sure he's slimy, and like, 40 years old, but at least he can hold up his own half of a song! Waka Flocka, not knowing much vocabulary outside of "Waka", "Flocka", and "flame", utterly fails to match the tone of this song and throws everything off. Not that Mia Martina's doing much justice for the song either, mind you.
This whole Mia Martina thing is honestly weird for me to articulate. Is she a bad artist in any way? No, I suppose not. But there's nothing in her for me that screams "star". She's like one of those contestants on American Idol that didn't create enough drama so she was voted off the show. Sorry, Canadian Idol.
And that's been a pervasive problem in all of her music. Something about it just seems half-assed or uncommitted. And you simply can't have that in a full-fledged pop star. Like, what's this song about?
'Cause when the stars align, you might bring the beast out
It's about sex. So why does she sound so unsexy here?
This is almost the same problem I had with Selena Gomez's "Good for You", except here it's just boring. She's not a bad singer, but she's not portraying the right kind of tone in her song. It all reads like an EDM track without the EDM music.
And that's honestly all I can say about it. It's a song that feels like there wasn't much effort put into it. And I can only assume that's why Mia Martina hasn't caught on in the States.
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