Tim: Alma, 16 from Sweden, brings us this has her debut, and I’m hoping you’ll agree it’s really quite listenable.
Tim: Well, when the chorus comes along forty seconds in – admittedly the verses don’t have quite so much to them, but for me that’s more than made up for by the intensity and enthusiasm of the chorus.
Tom: Agreed: I got distracted during that first verse, which isn’t usually a good sign, but the chorus did actually pull me back in. Not the best of signs, that, but still.
Tim: We’ve a lovely couple whose circumstances keep holding them back, and so rather than fighting the world they simply better run, run, run, run, run, all the way to seemingly the edge of the solar system with the way she keeps wanging on about it. (62, if you’re wondering.)
Quite where the modal verb that should be in the title is, I’ve no idea – perhaps it just ran faster than everything else in the song.
Tom: Did… did you just grammar-pedant a song title? Mate. “We better” is a perfectly valid, if non-standard, construction.
Tim: To be honest, I’m not particularly bothered – basically, it has a great chorus, semi-decent verses that are there to pull to gaps and tell the story, and some lovely post-middle eight soaring vocals. I’ll take it.