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Major Lazer and Tove Lo

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Today I have the latest song dropped by Major Lazer. This song is so unlike most of Major Lazer's music, and I totally dig it. Not that Major Lazer's previous work was bad or anything. In fact, I love pretty much everything by them! But this song is pretty out of scope for them and I love the fact that Major Lazer was able to pull off a song like this with so much ease and clarity and honest to goodness amazing sounds. There are moments in other Major Lazer songs that are similar to this one, but there is more experimentaion here and we can really hear that.  This song takes up influence from the tropical house side a little, but tends to delve more into the deep house side of things. There are some clear instances of a reggae beat and reggae melody, but a lot of this reminds me a bit of Kygo. But the thing is, this song has elements that are very Major Lazer related. The drop is very much like normal Major Lazer and the use of that reggae sound is one of the defining character