Tim: ONLY THE YOUNG, as anyone who watched the tense parts of last year’s X Factor will know them, were one of the most promising groups of recent times.
Tom: Ha! I’m very glad I clicked that link.
Tim: Yeah, I kind of want to be friends with that guy. Despite his best efforts, though, they got booted off in week seven, quite a shame. On the other hand, if they’d won they’d still be in a recording studio somewhere and we wouldn’t have their first release for at least another couple of months, so here we are.
Tom: Interesting choice to rhyme “kiss ya” with “picture”, though. Their accents mean they can pull it off, but it’s a risky one.
Tim: They are Charlie (male with the stupid hair), Mikey (male with the sensible hair), Patsy (female with the brown hair) and Betsy Blue (female with the blonde hair), and my first thought was that it’s genuinely nice to have a mixed-gender group, because off the top of my head I can’t think of a successful one in the past several years (except for Electro Velvet, obviously).
Tom: All I could think of were much older groups: Ace of Base, Abba, and Aqua. All of which start with A for some reason.
Tim: Yes – aside from those, only Steps and S Club 7 sprang to mind immediately. One other thing that was nice was that they actually seemed to be having a lot of fun, and this seems to have made its way into this. It’s turned a song about a fairly creepy situation (turning up to the wedding of someone who’s never met him, hoping that the marriage won’t last long) into one that’s upbeat and all clap-alongy and everything with all you need for a summer hit.
Tom: I know! Imagine this performed in a more creepy-stalker voice and it suddenly seems a lot, lot worse. But then, a lot of songs do that.
Tim: Well, this is true. Particularly of note: that return from the middle eight, which is exactly what it should be – ever so slight hint of melancholy just detectable in there, but otherwise full-on rousing. Good work, let’s have an album please.