Lovesick (Mura Masa song)

Mura Masa said about the recording of "Love$ick": "The first thing he [ASAP Rocky] said was that it made him feel really tropical, like he was in Ibiza or something and I was like, 'OK let's roll with that'. But then I said to him that it was about being stupid and feeling lovesick and hanging over a girl and he brought that to it as well. It was super fun, it was wild, we hung out, smoked cigarettes, talked about fashion and Tame Impala."^[2]

"Love$ick" is a vocal version of a previous instrumental track titled "Lovesick",^[3] which was released in his debut EP Someday Somewhere. Mura Masa said that "the track originally was about sex and how I was feeling after a particularly empty encounter with a friend told through a kind of twisted-pop, calypso, hip hop dance track".^[4]

Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian called the original instrumental "jazzy" and "tropical".^[5] Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times that the song is "built on a Caribbean-tinged beat and a four-bar loop of a piano that soon switches its sound to steel drums".^[6] Collin Robinson of Stereogum opined that "Rocky injects the bouncy percussion and steel-drummed Caribbean vibes with some steez".^[7] Rap-Up described the song as "soulful and electronic, calypso-tinged, rap-infused".^[8] Eve Barlow of Pitchfork called it "airhorn-assisted calypso".^[9]

El Hunt of DIY said: "No revolutionary new angles come from this guest spot, but it's a statement of intent all the same".^[10]

The song has been remixed by Four Tet^[11] and Mumdance.^[12]