TROUBLE staked their claim as brat pop supreme with their debut single, Bad Boy

The EDM pop duo, TROUBLE, which has a shot of becoming as iconic as Paris Hilton and Nicole Richey with their Y2K aesthetics and infectious attitude, anchored their debut floor-filler, Bad Boy, in siren-esque angst and an infallible recognition of their own self-worth; crashing in as this generation’s wave of aural feminism. The four-to-the-floor beat, ferociously riling in all the right places vocals, and progressive unpredictability of the earworm never leaves you feeling that TROUBLE is just going through the motions; there’s a rare sense of authenticity in the urgency of Bad Boy; if you met TROUBLE backstage, you’d know exactly what to expect from the duo and their magnetically spiky sensibility if you met them backstage, and you also know that some poor wannabe lothario is still licking his wounds after inspiring this single. Era-wise, Bad Boy, and its lacerating, playful fury, is impossible to pin down; EDM and pop aesthetics from the 90s and 00s take an intravenous shot into the anthem, which hits just as hard as Icona Pop and Charli XCX’s I Love It. No fuckboy would stand a chance against these two, or anyone who decides to take note of the hell-hath-no-fury brat pop lyrics […]

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