Tom: Owl City’s singles tend to be EITHER brilliant bubblegum pop bangers OR dull introspective wishy-washy rubbish. With a title like this, from an album called Cinematic, I’m not hopeful.
Tom: Huh. Turns out he can do both at once.
Tim: You what? Instrospective it may be, but dull and wishy-washy?
Tom: Well, yeah. This needs someone like Avicii or Axwell to just take one pass through it. Give it something to actually make a crowd go off, and and you’d have an absolutely spectacular dance track.
Tim: Are we…are we listening to the same song? That post-chorus is fantastic, and if we were on a dance floor I would absolutely lose my nut to this.
Tom: Would you? Because, yes, it’s not bad, but after one of the most spectacular and promising builds I’ve heard in a while, we just get… well, mush is the word that comes to mind. Or alternatively, you take the verses down a notch, and you’d have a lovely… well, still a dance track, just one for the end of the night.
Tim: See, I’d have the opposite suggestion – turn the verses up, to keep the energy up throughout and not have that dip between the choruses.
Tom: As it is, it occupies a middle ground that – for me – is a bit disappointing.
Tim: I’ll be honest: I’m having trouble believing you’re being serious here. That chorus is just fantastic – yes, there are improvements that could be made, but for the most part this is brilliant.
Tom: Give it those improvements, I’d love it. Right now, it just doesn’t work for me.