Tim: The Fooo, who you may remember recently wanted to build themselves a girlfriend, have sensibly backed away from that idea and now have this, a cover of, yes, that Freestyler.
Tom: I had to listen to the original to remind myself. And I’m at a loss: how on earth does a boyband cover a track like this?
Tom: Oh. By making it almost exactly the same.
Tim: I was all ready to pass this up and say, yep, that’s a cover and it’s pretty much identical, fine, but then there’s a bit of extra melody on the chorus line which is pretty good, and there’s also a little of bit extra stuff they’ve thrown in after the chorus that makes it sound a little bit more up to date than the 1999 original.
Tom: It’s basically an ill-advised X Factor covers week attempt, isn’t it?
Tim: Oh, come on – every X Factor week is ill-advised covers week.
I don’t know if this was a song that really needed a cover version, but they’ve done a very good job of it nonetheless – I wasn’t really ready for it to end when it did, and to be honest I wouldn’t have minded another chorus there, which must mean I like it.
Tom: Speak for yourself: I’ll stick with the original.