Tim: Smorgasbord, because it’s lots of different bits, like the three members of this band, apparently, with “different, but solid, musical backgrounds.” With this debut, they’re providing “an exotic tempting sound, a hybrid with sticky choruses”. How fun. Or gross, something anyway.
Tom: It’s a stock footage music video! I didn’t think those were still a thing! But more importantly: it’s actually a proper dance track. It… it does go on and on a bit, though, doesn’t it?
Tim: I do like a song where they don’t let you, ever, forget what it’s called. Sure, you have your Unchained Melody and your Bohemian Rhapsody, but that’s hard to remember and sometimes you just need it drilling right down into you. Eiffel 65 knew it, Alexandra Burke knew it, and now Smorgasbord know it as well.
Tom: Even the instrumental bit of the chorus follows the same rhythm, so I keep singing it anyway. At some point I’ve got to admire that, but it does get old. I actually said “yes, I get it” out loud at one point.
Tim: I suppose I could take it as part of the song, the forceful nature of the instruction that it must never, ever, under any circumstances be allowed to stop. Or just slightly lazy lyrics, I don’t know.
Tom: I mean, I could at least sing the chorus after one listen. I’m not sure I wanted to, though.
Tim: As for the rest of it: it’s a solid debut as a dance track, with that intense repetition presumably mainly intended to get stuck in your head, wanting to dance and keep dancing to it. And for that, it kind of works, though I can’t help feeling they think it’s going to be bigger and more anthemic than it probably will be. Still a good start, though.