The Jane Doze, “Mean World”

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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