Tim: So, how about we start our week with some nice banging EDM?
Tom: Tim, you could have not written a worse introduction for me. It’s Monday. I’m exhausted. I’ve got a headache. The last thing I need is…
Tom: Ah, hell, turns out I like it.
Tim: Me too – it sounds great, although I do, oddly, find it a tad hard to take seriously – I know that’s a weird thing to say, and also I don’t know why that is (or at least I didn’t when I was writing that until that 8-bit style ending arrived just now).
Tom: Aww, see I really loved that. Heartwarming.
Tim: It’s nice, yeah, and it rounds off a perfectly decent dance tune, with a more than good enough melody (though I’m not keen on how that line seems to have a seizure on the volume dial).
Tom: Agreed: because everything has to be a wall of sound, it’s overcompressed, and that percussion makes everything else go silent. That’s the only bit of this that makes my headache worse, and it’s a shame, because it’s spoiling what is a really lovely, simple, catchy tune.
Tim: I think the issue, stupid as it may seem, is that everybody was having too much fun with it when making it. The aforementioned volume thing, that closing bit, how you can almost hear a massive smile on Martell’s face while she’s singing and clapping in the middle eight – it’s as though it was thrown together at the end of a party when everyone’s going “YEAH WOOHOO!!!!” That’s not always a bad thing – but it might be worth checking in on in the morning.