Somehow, we’ve not yet reached boyband saturation point, so here are two Swedes and three Americans who presumably looked photogenic enough to be worth putting together, visas be damned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AsSSVd0oJU
Oh heavens, they’ve even put the names on there to introduce them, like they’re in a dodgy sitcom or something.
I’m going to stick my neck out: not going to happen. With no disrespect meant to the guys involved, there’s not really anything special about this song.
Yep. And the video could have come straight out of the 90s – the half-assed dancing, the leaning forward into the camera.
It is, in fact, a tad tedious with the way it loses all its momentum in the pre-chorus, then with the drum beats building up into a chorus that doesn’t deserve it. The middle eight is exactly twice as long as it should be – either drop the first half or the first and third quarters, either would work – and a repeat to fade? Really?
Perhaps they’ve time travelled from the past. There’s nothing actively wrong with this — it’s just about twenty years too late.
Come on, record people. We’re running out of room for boybands, so if you’re pushing out a new one and least make it vaguely worthwhile.