Central Cee, Jung Kook and The Kid Laroi – Too Much Review

Three people for three minutes of music on one track. At this rate, a minute per artist. That is of course not how music works and nor is it what The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook and Central Cee have done here. Funny if it were, but unfortunately not. Too Much is, well, a little too much for these three to work on. A fairly flaccid piece of light and contemporary R&B groomed for the charts and with seemingly no other aim. Vague moments piecing together some event which turned out to be, as the title suggested, too much. Loved-up simplicities guide this one and make no real difference for any of the artists involved. Three brains, one singular idea to share between them.  

It is not as though there is a shortage of heartbreak songs – though Too Much would not even wade its way into the best of them even if it did enlist some better writing and pace. Was what too much? There’s not much in the way of specifics bar a breakup and dealing with it through necking a few shrooms. There is a sense of toxicity to the style of this lost love though, the desire to die without being wrapped in the arms of another rushes through in the early moments of this one and soon turns into an exploration of what is and is not gaslighting. Repetitive questioning, dull mixing and a passive continuation of dragging BTS members into the fold. Coldplay learned their lessons, and so too shall Central Cee and The Kid LAROI. Neither seems to be that much of a loss to music, though.  

Perhaps it comes from a healthy life and not one of rumours here and Ozempic injections. Sometimes a song is so far removed from the real world that it cannot hope to capture the cultural wave many are experiencing. Yachts, apologies and intimate acts all to the backdrop of chauffeurs and the glitz and glam of living it up with enough cash to support such a life. It does not sound all too appealing when the consequences are made clear, though the easy-to-access discussions Cee and LAROI present here are, for many, the goal. What a waste. Too Much marks the gluttony in its title and in its words but fails to criticise them, if that was the aim in the first place – whether it was or was not does not really matter when the beat sounds more like TikTok fodder than anything else.  

Continued questions on doing it again had they been presented the chance are used as the glue to keep this one together and with that there are further flimsy questions down the line. A sense of paranoia presents itself in these lyrics, of someone calling their friends desperately trying to find some information on the whereabouts of a loved one, the latter not seeing the trouble since he has provided a holiday somewhere. The disconnect between reality and the solution to causing heartbreak is a fascinating listen, also one where it is easy to find disgust. Too Much is empty and heartless despite filling itself up with words of love – or what Cee, LAROI and Kook perceive as love. If this is their genuine perception, then they are appealing to a crowd, a large one at that, who will never find it.