Tim: Family and friends know her as Kitty, the rest of the world knows her as KITTY, and she’s Swedish with this as her debut.
Tim: Now, here’s a thing. First off, it takes a long time to get going, with verses that, along with the middle eight, I’ll generously describe as existent.
Tom: I rather like that middle eight: it’s a brave choice to go with just simple instrumentation, let alone just a string section — but I think it works extremely well, and possibly better than that chorus.
Tim: Really? See, for me its the chorus that totally makes it, or at least it sort of does – for me it’s not until the second chorus when it all goes orange that it actually does anything.
Tom: You’re right, that’s the cue: for some reason, it comes together there.
Tim: I don’t quite know how this is possible – the two are identical – but throughout that extended chorus and towards the end of the song, it all just rolls along beautifully, and I have no complaints at all (except for that double negative). I love them, in fact – I just really wish it didn’t take quite so long to happen.
Tom: And at four minutes it doesn’t really need to: you could cut out the first minute or so and it’d work fine.
Tim: There is a remix, mind – after all, there’s always a remix – by Swedish producer mog, that fixes that and gets it going straight off; sadly, in doing so it completely loses the lovely flowingness that makes the later choruses of the original so great. Oh, maybe I’m destined to be unhappy.
Tom: Maybe you’re just starting to approach my position: that 90% of the music we get is just “okay”, and that’s fine.