Tim: Summer may have just about dipped below the horizon, but that’s apparently no reason to give up on the summer-themed disco pop. So shall we?
Tom: Why on earth do you have a hosepipe on a beach? And, to be honest, I’m getting a bit sick of videos that are just “look how much money we have to go places and do things”. Hmf. Anyway. Sorry.
Tim: No, it’s justified – that is exactly what this video was (perhaps lazily) designed to show, how great summer was. But let’s move on to the music.
Tom: The music.
Tim: And that…do you know, I’m going to be generous and assume that whoever wrote this was feeling a bit drained by the aforementioned calendar placement, because this isn’t what it should be. It’s good enough and it ticks the boxes, sure, but where’s the sense of joy, and energy, and just general funk that you’d normally find in a track like this.
Tom: I don’t know: there’s certainly a decent bassline going on there, but I think I know what you mean.
Tim: I might be being too harsh on it – am I? – but I just can’t help get a sense that they were more concerned with getting out of the studio as soon as they’d got something laid down that just about worked for a single. I don’t know – tell me I’m wrong, and that right now I just have very high standards, can you?
Tom: It’s okay. It sounds a bit like it’s off a stock music CD. It’s in the middle of the bell curve. This is an ordinary track. And here’s the thing: this is how I feel about most of the tracks that go past us. There are diamonds out there, Tim, but they’re few and far between.
Tim: Such, alas, is indeed the nature of the bell curve. Fairly sure it’s worth it for the good ones, though.