The Robots Remember

Basement Jaxx brought ’Never Say Never’ back, and it’s exactly what they do best—that propulsive, restless sound that moves through you before you notice it’s there. Built to repeat, to nest in clubs and cars until it’s just the sound of summer.

The video is the strange part. It’s a future where people have forgotten how to move, and these twerking robots are the only ones who remember how. They’re the guardians of something we lost. There’s something bleak about that, which maybe is the point. But the song doesn’t linger on it. It’s too catchy, too perfectly made to waste energy thinking about the premise.