The official music video premiered on January 9, 2012. Like fellow undergrad Asher Roth, Posner began making melodic pop-rap songs for the college crowd, filling his music with references to fraternity culture, dorm. Posner uploaded a lyric music video on Vevo on December 6, 2011. The catchy melody makes the track a good choice as the lead single from ‘Sky High.’' Katherine St Asaph of Popdust said the song ' sounds great' and explained 'as an instrumental, the single’s admirable' but criticized the lyrics, 'the chorus consists entirely of “she looks like sex, sex, sex, sex.” This strikes us as a little underwritten, not to mention more than a little shameless.' Music video

Scott Shelter of PopCrush gave the song 4/5 stars stating, 'Every Mike Posner song seems to have an unquantifiable layer of cool, thanks to his chilled-out, almost effortless vocal delivery, and ‘Looks Like Sex’ is no exception. So is Mike Posners The Layover mixtape gonna be all covers of pop/rock singalong standards, then Fine by us, we supposeafter his fine cover of Elton Johns 'Rocket Man' came to light a few days back, now we have the Pozzer going in on Oasis 90s britpop classic 'Wonderwall. It was originally intended to be on his second album, then under the name of Sky High, but once Posner stated that his album would be called Pages, he then confirmed that he started over with recording and that the single would not appear on the album. Musically, the song contains 'slinky electro-pop' characteristics. A remix version by Internet cartoon band Your Favorite Martian has released on their YouTube channel. The song did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 18.

The song was written by Mike Posner and Mason Levy, but is heavily derivative of ' Midnight City' by French act M83. ' Looks Like Sex' is a song by American recording artist Mike Posner from his third mixtape The Layover, although the version of the song on the tape is merely a snippet. 2011 single by Mike Posner 'Looks Like Sex' The Layover Mike Posner and Cyhi Da Prince collaborate to speak on a lesson you hopefully learned in high school, not to kiss and tell to your crew when you get some J.U.S.T.I.C.E.

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