When the Cheshire emerges...

FLO RIDA!

Man, I asked you to stop with the covers a year ago now. And you've gone and done it again.

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I know you've had How I Feel out for a while now, and it's gone well enough for you. But I've been busy.

I just want to say that it's not doing you any favours for credibility or your style. Whether you care about this I don't know (to be honest, I don't think you do), but what about respect?

See, now you've gone and tampered with a real classic. You're not the first with this song, and you won't be the last, but with your run of mashups/covers/whatever you want to call them it's been tiresome for a long time and you just need to stop.

You need to promise yourself you'll go to remake obsession rehab and clean yourself up.

I've had a bone to pick with Flo Rida for the last few weeks now, since I discovered on my holiday that his latest single is another dance rip-off...

Dear Flo Rida,

Dude, I don't get it.

First you took 2011's biggest dance hit from Avicii and slaughtered it into some weird mixed dance/pop thing. Sadly for you, there was a separate attempt at a similar project that actually worked. It used some Australian guy named Gotye.

Now, it's Bingo Players' Cry you've tortured. What is your obsession with taking massive club hits and (unsuccessfully) attempting to make them your own? Is it to appeal to the teens not yet able to go out? Is it that you're jealous you were never an awesome DJ and just have to make do with rapping to music you wish you'd created? Or really, is it just that Pitbull's had relative success with it so you thought you'd try to one-up him?

A word of advice: you primarily rap, and that's cool. I do like some of your songs. But stick to it; stick to a less dance-based catalogue and LEAVE THEM ALONE.

Cheers,
Katina