{"id":2448655,"date":"2019-09-12T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=882081"},"modified":"2019-09-12T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:00:18","slug":"tosh-alexander-rejuvenates-a-dancehall-classic-on-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/tosh-alexander-rejuvenates-a-dancehall-classic-on-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tosh Alexander Rejuvenates a Dancehall Classic on \u2018Games\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tosh-Alexander-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2008, the Jamaican producer-turned-singer Serani released a pretty, pleading track titled \u201cNo Games.\u201d He had already helped create major singles like Sean Paul\u2019s \u201cWe Be Burnin,&#8217;\u201d so he knew how to pen propulsive, hooky hits; sure enough, \u201cNo Games\u201d became a popular single in the U.S. in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>A decade later, rising Jamaican singer Tosh Alexander offers a slick follow-up in the form of her new single \u201cGames,\u201d which makes a case against playing hard to get. Alexander\u2019s requests are simple and easy to fulfill: \u201cJust send reply sometimes\/Say you\u2019re mine, all mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Serani, Alexander offers a deft mixture of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dancehall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dancehall\" data-tag=\"dancehall\">dancehall<\/a> during the verses and R&amp;B \u2014 the clouds of backing vocals that drift upwards during the chorus bring to mind old Aaliyah singles \u2014 during the chorus. \u201cGames\u201d is warm and graceful, but there\u2019s a sharp warning hidden in the bridge: \u201cWant to make this work\/ Getting on my nerves with your twists and turns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexander turned to the producer Jaxx for the slippery, radio-ready \u201cGames\u201d beat. Jaxx, who has also worked with Kranium and Jada Kingdom, makes sure the Serani sample is tasteful but never overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGames\u201d is being distributed by Aftercluv, a Universal Music label that focuses on elevating multiple strains of global dance music.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tosh-alexander-games-video-serani-882081\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, the Jamaican producer-turned-singer Serani released a pretty, pleading track titled \u201cNo Games.\u201d He had already helped create major singles like Sean Paul\u2019s \u201cWe Be Burnin,&#8217;\u201d so he knew how to pen propulsive, hooky hits; sure enough, \u201cNo Games\u201d became a popular single in the U.S. in 2009. A decade later, rising Jamaican singer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:55:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}