lumidee - never leave you (uh oh)

i don't like "get busy" much anymore - as lil missy suggests, listening to sean paul is often one long "why do you humans cry?" moment (looking at him is even more disturbing!) even when he's got the infectious hook. "never leave you" is probably as far away as it's possible to get while you're still on the diwali, in fact the best thing about it is the way everyone's favourite cutting edge riddim is stripped of its sometimes oppressive now-ness by lumidee's slightly amatuerish voice (separating it from wayne wonder's "no letting go" which is really good and touching too but that dude is slick!) and that sickly sweet melody.

so it gets that heartbreaking late-summer nostalgia thing going where it could be a lost commercial radio anthem from when i was thirteen instead of something that people self-consciously bump to in the nearest club that wouldn't let my badly-dressed ass in. i'm pretty glad it didn't come out when i was thirteen though, because i would have been too busy listening to suede or something. everybody wins!