Paper or Plastic (song)

Paper or Plastic is a song by Brooke Candy. It is part of her unpublished album Daddy Issues.

Background
The song was made available on June 8, 2016 by RCA as a digital download. While "Paper or Plastic" was released to promote Candy's unreleased album Daddy Issues, the 2017 follow-up song "Living Out Loud" was chosen as the project's lead single. In 2017, the release for Daddy Issues was canceled after Candy left RCA to record an extended play (EP) that returned to her original punk-inspired rap sound. In an interview with Noisey, she clarified: "Sony and I parted ways – I made an entire album with them, but technically they own that music".[1]

Critical Reception
Critical response to Paper or Plastic was mixed following its debut. Daisy Jones praised the song as a "pure shot of sparkling pop", describing it as "sweet, poppy and hella catchy".[2]  Zarah Cheng of Hypebae praised Candy's vocals as "soothingly wispy", calling the song a "sultry track filled with a throbbing dream beat and slowly paced synth notes".[3]  While Wass initially responded positively to the track as showcasing Candy's versatility as an artist,[4]  he was more critical of it during his review of the follow-up single Living Out Loud", including it in his list of the "string of flops" released to promote Daddy Issues.[5]  He also described the tracks released from the cancelled project as "a string of basic bangers", and negatively compared it to Candy's 2017 single "Volcano".[6