Lucky Harmon

Anyone who knows the present trajectory of electronic pop, progressive R&B and melodic hip-hop knows that these three genres are starting to blur lines like few critics had ever anticipated possible, and to this end, Lucky Harmon’s “Party Life” is a cocktail made for 2021. Featuring Bboy Fidget on a memorable rap interlude, “Party Life” is a beat-focused jam that wants us to forget about the stress of the past year in favor of truly getting back to normal in the only way dance fiends know how. Lucky Harmon came into this studio session to do some serious business, and the labor was definitely worth it. 

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Beyond the versatility of the two vocal elements in this song, the melody that guides both the verse and the track’s main swing is pushed forth by a beat that could tell a story all by itself. Even the synthetic parts of the mix are speaking to the organic emotion in the lyrics better than I ever would have expected them to, and in this sense, “Party Life” is a proof that detail really does matter in modern pop music. After all, it’s what gives Lucky Harmon is undeniable elegance at the helm of this juggernaut (with the emphasis falling on the word juggernaut to clarify the significance of this feat). The music video for “Party Life” doesn’t hit the reset button on contemporary cultural cues but instead embraces the colorful zaniness of a post-hipster generation with aesthetics as steeped in hybridity as pop music itself has become.

I’m not saying that Lucky Harmon made this specifically with the goal of trying to get on an upper-level of the mainstream, but there’s still no getting around the fact that his well-varnished look in this piece is something that will appeal to the masses even more than it would the underground. You might not have been familiar with the music of Lucky Harmon or Bboy Fidget yesterday, but with the momentum both of these artists have as 2020 winds down to a conclusion, I have a feeling you’re going to be talking about their music both separately and together by tomorrow. 

“Party Life” is an exhibition of skill that just so happens to be a really sexy collaborative single, and if it’s indicating anything about either of these two players, it’s that their time in the limelight as important figures in pop has only just begun. 

Joshua Beach

Melbourne, AUS

12/2020