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Sarah Ditum on Pop

“THAT’S QUITE A COVER,” said my friend, at which point I had a second look at the art for the song I’d just sent her on Spotify and agreed that, yes, it was quite a cover: a cartoon image of the rapper Ice Spice, viewed from behind, legs spread and bent forward so she was looking back at you from under her own crotch.

The sauciness of the cover, though, wasn’t exactly a surprise, because the song — “Bikini Bottom” — is also extremely saucy. Over a slinky, bhangra-sounding riff, Ice

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