Tom: Straight away, I’ve got Ash’s “Girl from Mars” in my head, and I just know this isn’t going to be as good.
Tim: No – I will warn you in advance, this is a fairly awful song, but it’s also slightly enjoyable so have a listen and see which side you fall on.
Tom: I… huh. You’re right. That’s not a good song, but it’s so well-produced that it’s difficult to realise that.
Tim: So there’s some horrible messing around with his voice, no idea why, an unnecessary yet blatant call back in the lyrics to a previous song, and a remarkably unapologetic level of xenophobia.
Tom: Not to mention really terrible lyrics, some full-on bragging about his own attractiveness that frankly just grates, and a bizarre “yup” before the chorus as if he’s agreeing with himself.
Tim: AND YET, I still don’t mind it all that much, because – you know, I don’t know why. I want to say the whistling’s alright, but actually there’s not a lot of that, and if the only enjoyable part of a song is, what, forty seconds in total, then the ‘slightly’ really is incredibly slight.
Tom: There are some moments of brilliance into here: the instrumentation in the pre-chorus is very, very good, for example, and that introduction’s pretty damn promising. But the rest of it…
Tim: You know what, I’ll close by rewriting my introduction somewhat: this is a really awful song. Oh, Eric.