Tom: An anonymous reader sends this in, describing it as “a sweet chord progression combined with nice and crisp vocals”. Now that sounds more like they’re tasting wine to me, but let’s give it a listen.
Tom: That’s the most disappointing post-build chorus I’ve heard in a long time.
Tim: I read that sentence before I heard the chorus, and I’m not sure I’d agree with you, or at least not in the way I’d expected to. It’s not exactly a let-down – it still keeps the energy going, but it just goes nowhere near where we’d expect it go.
Tom: I realise there’s an argument that this is a deliberate genre choice, not just a poor selection of samples, but that doesn’t change the fact that it doesn’t sound good to me. That loud horn sample is discordant; the chorus sounds more like a disappointingly experimental middle eight; the chip tune samples are just overly harsh.
Tim: It is quite the mish mash, certainly – probably why the first chorus was so disappointing. You’ve got that first verses and pre-chorus being your standard electropop fare, but that drops off in favour of what’s left of dubstep these days, then moving on elsewhere into drum & bass territory with a few random bits chucked in here and there for balance.
Tom: Sorry, anonymous reader. It might be your sort of thing, it isn’t mine.
Tim: Wrong site, I think.