Tom: Another one from America that didn’t make it over here. Do yourself a favour: just listen to the video in a background tab to start off with. I’ll tell you why later.
Now, just to set your expectations: this isn’t bouncy pop music. It’s a slow piano-and-strings, steadily building, ballad.
Tom: …and it might just be the best piano-and-strings ballad I’ve heard in a long while.
Tim: It is nice, isn’t it? Calming and all that.
Tom: There’s quite a tale behind it as well, if the official story‘s to be believed; it went platinum despite Christina Perri being an unsigned artist.
Tim: A tale to inspire us all.
Tom: Bloody stupid video, though. Which is a shame, because the song doesn’t need that adornment: “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily … is wasteful and ridiculous excess.” Put her in front of a piano, film it well, and you have exactly the kind of video that the song needs.
Tim: You just quoted Shakespeare. I have absolutely no idea how to follow that.
Tom: Knowing you? Generally with a cock joke.