Tim: Tom, help me: was this song, from the beginning of this year, big anywhere?
Tom: Not as far as I know. I don’t recognise it.
Tim: It’s just, it’s so familiar (and not in the sense of ‘this sounds like that’, but in the actual ‘I have definitely heard this song before’), but it’s not charted anywhere, she’s barely been played on the radio recently (5 times in that past month), and it doesn’t seem to have been in any TV shows or films. But damn, I know I’ve heard it before, maybe even a lot.
Tom: I mean, that verse melody is coincidentally similar to Bo Burnham’s Country Song, but I doubt it. Are you sure you’ve heard this, specifically?
Tim: And I absolutely know that, because it’s really, really good. The strings and piano right from the off give us a fantastic start, her vocal is perfect and oh, that chorus is just divine. The sheer power there, it’s truly glorious.
Tom: I was all ready to disagree with you, and then I realised that a few minutes later, I could still hum the chorus.
Tim: Why didn’t it do better, Tom? Why?
Tom: It did get a million views. That’s a lot better than many.
Tim: Yeah, I guess.