Tom: Our reader, Laura, sends this in, saying that “the build really pays off”.
Tom: She’s not wrong. That build, and the first part of the chorus (“tears on the ground”) are absolutely wonderful, at least in terms of the sort of European pop we talk about.
Tim: Yeah – surprisingly so, really, as it’s not often we hear so-called ‘credible’ artists with songs like that.
Tom: In fact, I could see all that doing very well at Eurovision, and that’s not just because of the flaming instruments. But then it segues — not particularly well — into a drum-and-bass-y section that seems completely out of place. It doesn’t fit the rest, it kills all the energy.
Tim: And there I very much agree with you – we’re back to the ‘credible’ bit (and I hate that word and everything that accompanies it, but that’s a discussion for another day), and it’s nowhere near as much fun.
Tom: Lose those sections, bring back that beautiful first part of the chorus for one last, MASSIVE reprise and you’d have a brilliant track. As it is: not quite.