Tim: The two people who make up the (technically still ongoing) band Infernal have decided to make other music but using a different name. A bit like Cheryl Cole becoming Cheryl, but even more odd.
Tom: Still going? Blimey. British listeners will know them for “From Paris To Berlin” and not much else.
Tom: But blimey, from that intro I’m hoping they get known for this.
Tim: Now, here’s what I don’t like about this: the song is absolutely not what the intro and first verse make you think it’s going to be.
Tom: Oh. Now that’s disappointing. Because I want this to KICK IN. Wait, it did. Without wanting to seem to aggressive: what’s your problem?
Tim: Well, the strings in there, the drumming bits and the type of singing got me all lined up for a Call Me Maybe type track of lovely smile-on-your-face pop. But it isn’t, aside from that and the lead-in to the second chorus. It jumps around all over the place – plain pop, electro stuff, a tiny bit of dubstep, occasional autotune – and it just makes me wonder what’s going on.
Tom: I’m not particularly worried about what’s going on, because it’s all good. If Fun—
Tim: The pedant in me needs to point out that the band is in fact called fun., not Fun.
Tom: —fine, if “fun.” can get to number 1 with a track that never settles down into any particular pattern – and that’s a well-deserved number 1, by the way – then the occasional genre mashups that are going on here aren’t going to cause any issue.
Tim: Yes, it is all good – individually, I quite like all the bits, and wouldn’t mind a whole song of each of them, but none of them quite lives up to what the first bit was promising, which annoys me.
Tom: Really? It’s just fine by me.