Tom: Six singles from the same album. That’s called “milking it”, surely?
Tim: Not if you’re trying to beat Michael Jackson’s record of five number ones off the same album, it isn’t.
Tom: And when the singles are this good, maybe it’s not milking it at all. Maybe it’s justified. Because for a sixth single, that’s bloody amazing. And she’s got a songwriting credit on it as well – it seems this isn’t just a popular artist being given the best tracks.
Tim: It is good – although I must admit most of my attention there was on the video, which is just – wow.
Tom: And that’s a surprisingly emotional video for American pop. It doesn’t even have a typical saccharine ending: heck, even her jumping off the cliff “to be with him” could have been spun as a happier way to close that video. That’s going to have teenage girls bawling.
Tim: I don’t know if it’s because I’m writing this at one o’clock in the morning, but that really did get me a bit emotional. Blimey.