Tim: So, you know how sometimes you get tracks that kick in fairly early on and you just think “oh, yes, this’ll be alright”? Yeah, that, basically.
Tim: Because seven seconds in, you’ve pretty much got a decent idea of where the song’s going to end up.
Tom: Somewhere startlingly close to “My Life Will Suck Without You”. Not that close, but clearly on the same formula.
Tim: Yes – it’s immediately a song you know will definitely be worth your time, with a big vocal in the chorus, along with those same guitars and probably a good drumbeat or two, which’ll return in a slightly lower form for the second verse. Middle eight’s up for grabs a bit, although it’ll end with a quiet, possibly even acapella, redo of the chorus, and then everything comes back in. And what do you know? That’s pretty much exactly what happens.
Tom: Mind you, those lyrics seem to have the same problem as a certain Jedward track.
Tim: Oh, please don’t remind me of that, though with lyrics “I wanna get soaking wet” and “I wanna swim in your ocean” is hard to deny a possible thematic similarity. But CAN WE PLEASE NOT THINK ABOUT ANY LYRICS EVER AGAIN, because musically, there’s a simple reason you get formulas in songs: they work, and nowhere is that more evident than here – the music is, after all, really rather good.