Tim: Tom, help me out. Well, listen to this first, but after that.
Tim: Here’s something I don’t quite understand. Basically, until the last chorus hit, this didn’t really take me anywhere. It was alright, sure, but really just backing filler while a couple of screws fell out of my desk.
Tom: What the hell were you doing to your desk that a couple of screws fell out of it?
Tim: Oh, it’s seen some stuff in its time. Anyway, that first verse caught my interest: it sounded like it was going to be a Proper Builder.
But the last chorus, while I was rummaging around for a screwdriver before my iMac plummeted to its doom, completely blew me away. And I know that’s not particularly uncommon (the last chorus bit, not the furniture massacre), but normally it would at least persuade to pay more attention to the song the next time I heard it. But this, it didn’t really. I wanted to hear it again, but it was still kind of in one ear and out of the other. And again, and again.
Tom: The same thing happened to me. I got distracted about a minute into the song, and only noticed that it had finished when I heard the record company’s tag on the music video.
Tim: On the FIFTH attempt, once I was all sat back down, screwed in and settled, I realised that actually the chorus was pretty good throughout and definitely worth hearing (six times, as it turns out), though even still it struggles to hold my attention. And that’s annoying, because it’s a great chorus. So why can’t I pay attention to it?
Tom: I don’t know: but neither can I.