Tom: This one’s sent in by a reader, who says “didn’t like it at first, but it’s all good between us now”, which I think implies a somewhat closer relationship to Pixie Lott than one would otherwise suspect.
Tim: Perhaps a briefly disappointed father?
Tom: I wasn’t sold on this either until that surprisingly flatulent-sounding brass section hit, along with the whistling and woah-ohs that came along in the middle eight. It’s like they steadily built everything up, in order to make the final chorus properly exciting.
Tim: Hmm – similarly with you, I wasn’t hooked at first, but dissimilarly, I got it at the first chorus, and after that thought it was great, both with and without the flatulence. As for the build up? Well, that’s the point really isn’t it, and it certainly does build up because ‘properly exciting’ is a very good way to describe that last chorus.
Tom: Pity it took so long to get there, though.
Tim: Seems we have have different ideas about where ‘there’ is.