LaLa

Anderson .Paak's presence on "LaLa" shifts the entire gravitational center — his voice and drumming sensibility enter the conversation and suddenly DOMi and Beck are in dialogue with someone who has a decade of acclaimed records behind him, and they more than hold their own. The track is one of the album's most overtly melodic, .Paak's vocals supplying a warmth and soul tradition that the duo's instrumentals gesture toward but rarely land in so directly. DOMi's keyboard work takes on a more supporting, harmonic role here, allowing the song to breathe and the vocals to lead — its own kind of musical maturity, knowing when fewer notes serve the song better. Beck's drumming is characteristically extraordinary but deferential in the best way, holding the pocket rather than expanding it. The lyric floats in pleasant abstraction, more mood than message, the repeated syllables of the title becoming a hook that lives in the body rather than the mind. This is the version of "NOT TiGHT" most likely to soundtrack a room where people are dancing and not paying close attention to the music — which is not a criticism but evidence of the duo's range.