Tim: No intro here, just press play and don’t read ahead.
Tom: Well, that’s confusing.
Tim: You see my initial thought was to start the post with “Before you ask, Tom, no it isn’t,” except, well, it kind of is. It’s one of the weirdest tracks I’ve heard in a while, to be honest, and I’m not sure what I think of it.
It’s not a remix, it’s not sampling, it’s definitely not a cover – the closest thing I can think of is Frankee’s F U Right Back (which isn’t, as it turns out, a song worth revisiting).
Tom: “Contains an interpretation of” is, I believe, the technical term. Unexpectedly, I really like it. I don’t think I would if it didn’t have that interpretation, though: it’s doing something interesting.
Tim: Throughout the first verse, I was thinking it was a really good track – for starters, “your army is who you are” is a great lyric. Suddenly, though, when I realised what was happening, I was brought waaaay out of it, and then I noticed the similarities in the melody that skipped me by the first time, and then…well, it’s almost a novelty (and one where the lyric video person somehow can’t spell “dee”).
Tom: The newly-written sections are the dullest parts, because of course they are. I’m treating this like a Live Lounge cover: it’s not something I’d regularly listen to, but I’m glad it exists.
Tim: I don’t know if I like this or not, I genuinely don’t.