There’s something refreshingly rebellious about an artist at the height of his career deciding to throw caution to the wind and get weird with it. Gus Dapperton, fresh off a decade of pop-leaning success, has done exactly that with Loose Goose, a project that feels less like a calculated rebrand and more like creative liberation.
“She Got The Funk,” the latest collaboration with English group Hard Life, announces this new chapter with all the subtlety of a fireworks display. Within seconds, you’re hit with abrasive, deliberately unsettling production that immediately signals: we’re not playing by the old rulebook anymore. It’s the sound of an artist who’s rediscovered why he fell in love with making music in the first place.
What makes this track genuinely captivating is its complete refusal to sit still. Autotune-drenched vocals float atop a foundation that’s equal parts groove and controlled chaos, while layers of electronic textures pile on top of one another like some kind of sonic architecture. The pulsating beat holds it all together, preventing the experimentation from spinning completely into the avant-garde—there’s still funk in the funk, even when the production gets delightfully messy.
This is where Dapperton’s strength truly shines through. Lesser artists might have gone full experimental and lost the plot entirely, but here he manages something trickier: he pushes production into genuinely unexpected territory while maintaining something you can actually move to. The track remains radio-friendly in rhythm even as it refuses to be radio-friendly in spirit, a balancing act that shouldn’t work but absolutely does.
After stepping back from the social media grind and the relentless machinery of chasing hits, Dapperton sounds reborn. Loose Goose isn’t just a name change—it’s permission for him to explore, mess around, and occasionally sound a little off-kilter. And that’s exactly what makes “She Got The Funk” so compelling. It’s weird, it’s kinetic, and it makes you want to move.
