Tim: I normally pay no attention to Big Brother – I’ve watched a few series in my time, but nothing since 2009 – but this year it turns out Samantha Fox is in the celebrity version, and finding that out put me in mind of this, which got to number one in Sweden.
Tom: I’m learning that “got to number one in Sweden” is not necessarily an endorsement.
Tim: Well, you say that, but it’s a cover of Samantha’s 1986 Touch Me (I Want Your Body), and that was a perfectly decent piece of ’80s pop, holding up fairly well over time. This, then, is…
Tim: …almost entirely awful.
Tom: Yep. Apart from the parts that are just cribbed from the original.
Tim: Her redone vocals for the chorus are fine, as is the rest of the chorus, musically, but the rest of it is just not good. The beat is dull and repetitive, mostly so when it’s not being sung over, bizarrely. Günther himself sounds like he’s trying to be H.P. Baxter, but is failing miserably.
Tom: Two Xs in Baxxter, although for the discount version here perhaps your styling is more apt.
Tim: Do you know, I have never felt so let down by bastard autocorrect, but you could be right with that second part – he looks like someone who should be barred from going within 100 metres of any park ever. And even though that chorus is good, the amount it gets repeated led me to be thinking “it must be nearly over now” before I was even two minutes in.
Tom: Ha! Yes, about the same here. Still, number one in Sweden.
Tim: Oh, Sweden. Why?