Tim: Stockholm Pride 2011 had an entirely appropriate official song. This one, in fact.
Tom: Ooh. Someone’s gone all high-concept but low-budget with their video, haven’t they? They’ve reached for the stars and hit… well, they’ve hit something. That’s someone with a graphics tablet and a basic knowledge of After Effects, I reckon. Or MS Paint.
Tim: Interesting idea for the, well, story, I guess, with a somewhat unusual KILL ALL THE HOMOPHOBES vibe to it, which I suppose is meant in a good way rather than a murderous rampage way. Perhaps what they’re imagining Stonewall would have been like if it happened two hundred years later.
As for the music, I love it: it’s great as a dance tune, it’s great as a ‘we’re all gay and it’s fantastic’ song, and is almost inspiring in its way. ‘Try homosexuality! You know there’s a small part of you that’s always wondered, and you really don’t know what you’re missing!’
Tom: They are basically just singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’, though. If we rip Cher Lloyd apart for doing nursery rhymes, we should really do the same here. It’s just… a bit uninspired, really. Good production, bad song.
Tim: Fair point about the nursery rhyme, but I wouldn’t say bad song – not by a long way.