Tom: Our reader, Katherine, sends in this textbook example of how to ruin a pretty good song with a terrible video. So do yourself a favour: play this in a background tab.
Tom: That’s a pretty good song, right? Not about to hit number one or anything like that, but a decently fun solidarity-after-breakup song. There aren’t enough of them.
Tim: Also in its favour: doesn’t hang around. Knows how long it can last for, and makes the most of that time.
Tom: But then there’s the video.
Tim: Oh, we are watching. Hang on, brb.
Tim: Huh.
Tom: I know how good that video must have seen as a concept — but good grief, it doesn’t match with the song at all. There are so many ways this could have been done well on a small budget: but what you’ve got instead is a confusing mash that just looks amateur. It’s a shame.
Tim: Sort of – at the end when the chorus goes massive, then it sort of fits because there’s the whole “yes we’re having fun and enjoying life without him”; but you’re right, with the melancholic mood earlier in the song, yeah, just doesn’t go.