They’ve been crushing the game for so long that sometimes people forget that The Jane Doze started getting notoriety with their unstoppably catchy series of mash-ups and bootlegs. It’s a formula that never gets old with them because of their signature style of switching and flipping the game to make something fresh sound like it’s from the future.
“Mean World,” a mash-up of Wave Racer and Lido’s recent collaboration “World Record” with Justin Bieber’s current hit “What Do You Mean,” is the kind of genre splitting, fire-starting play that bends and breaks expectations with each subsequent drop. Chopping and pitching up Bieber’s vocals to the point where they sound like a series of synth stabs, the duo presents a colorful canvas painted with trill percussion and a future bass bounce as the Biebs’ punctuates each drop. It’s a novel edit that makes good use of the original components while keeping The Jane Doze’s self-referential attitude intact: it’s a banger. It knows it’s a banger. And if a banger knows it’s a banger, who are we to deny it of its title? Better just to shut up and dance.
Listen to “Mean World” below.
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