has ILX discussed the Youngstar remix of Dizzee's Stand Up Tall and it's attendant b-side Give U More?

give u more is great and should have been on the album. it has ENERGY which i think is missing a bit from showtime.

its undeniably cool but am i gonna get a pasting if i say that its almost overbearing how continuumy this and much of showtime sounds? with the foul play wailing? like it was delib produced with reynolds in mind

i'm not making a stand on this tho

also, not explicitly linked to the above point mind, something that i think gets passed over with dizzee as sui generic grime force of nature is how attentive a listener he is, in his own tracks (which to be fair are never overcooked but also often seem manically intricately rescrawled over, crosshatched pentimento what have you in comparison to other grime's exciting one-idea riddimic moneyshot economics) as well as a listener of other music; he's obv a very deep digger whether its dsouth or duran duran or whodini or even watching totp2 for the 'happy talk' sample in the first place. how that affects his music, meh who can say, but for me stand up tall seems a burst of unpondered joy (love those goofy scratches!) compared to the rest of showtime. that said 'sut''s chorus could just as likely be a product of fiesta riddim tho, but whatever.

(also this is prob a wan rehash of the old lone auteur chestnut)