Tag: Baby Alice

Baby Alice – Naked

“Very similar style? It’s basically the same song!”

Tim: Cast your mind back six years, you might recall Piña Colada Boy; if you’re really unlucky you’ll recall their follow up Heaven is a Dancefloor

Tom: Yes (and it was an excellent), and… no, no I don’t, thankfully, despite the fact that I apparently had opinions on it.

Tim: Here’s their newest attempt to recapture the magic of 2010, which, according to a suspiciously PR-smelling Wikipedia paragraph, is “Baby Alice’s brand new summer song for 2016 and considered to be a follow-up to their hit single ‘Pina Colada Boy’ from 2010, with a very similar style”.

Tom: Very similar style? It’s basically the same song!

Tim: Two quick notes first: I’d like to thank them for not employing a male vocalist to sing “feel the air when I shake it”, because that’d be weird, and also I’d like to award bonus points for a key change, because I honestly can’t remember the last time I heard one in a summer dance tune.

Tom: When your song’s getting old after two out of three minutes, you do what you have to do. Despite that complaint, though… ah, hell, I like it, because it sounds like Piña Colada Boy only newer.

Tim: As for the rest of it: I actually really quite like it – it’s ear wormy, sure, but it’s not an unpleasant one; it’s light hearted, fun and most of all I’d look forward to dancing to this on a beach, with or without clothes on, and I think that’s what counts. It’s not a massive anthem that’ll be played for years to come, but it is a decent dance tune. BANGER.

Saturday Flashback: Baby Alice – Piña Colada Boy

“It’s a bloody earworm.”

Tim: I asked you what we should feature today, you said this had been on your mind recently; care to explain yourself?

Tom: Because it’s a bloody earworm. Even worse than that Kelly Clarkson Christmas track. It just gets in there and doesn’t leave.

Tim: This is three and a half years old now, so I’m sure the point has been mentioned before, but blimey there’s a lot of Bad Touch in there.

Tom: There is — probably not close enough to get sued over, but it’s certainly very familiar.

Tim: Aside from that (or perhaps given that), what a fun tune. I can understand why it’s in your head.

Tom: It’s worth noting some of those particularly ridiculous lyrics: “my patience shorter than my skirt”, for instance. Bonus points for having a video that somehow manages to objectify pretty much everyone.

Tim: Yes – possibly the best kind of video. And since you mention “that Kelly Clarkson Christmas track”, by which I’m sure you you mean “that glorious new tune Underneath the Tree”, I noticed this week that we didn’t have a new Christmas track, upsettingly; according to Wikipedia, though, these guys have done a version of Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree, and if anybody has a copy of that anywhere I’d love to hear it.

Baby Alice – Heaven is a Dancefloor

Really quite staggeringly bad.

Tom: Am I being too cynical, Tim? Because when an anonymous reader sends us a track that I’ve never heard of, and says it’s a “decent comeback” by the “Pina Colada Boy team”, I tend to be a bit suspicious and think that it might actually have been sent in by the “Pina Colada Boy Team” themselves.

Tim: Well, I don’t mind – if it’s anything like the actually-brilliant-but-for-all-the-wrong-reasons Piña Colada Boy, with its hook lifted directly from Eiffel 65’s (excellent) remix of The Bad Touch, and initial line strangely reminiscent of Matt Cardle’s When We Collide (not to mention the fact that it’s a song dedicated to the third best cocktail ever), I’m just glad that Tim, Andreas & Sandra have got new stuff at all.

Tom: Well, since the song is really quite staggeringly bad, the suspicions I have don’t really bother me.

Tim: Oh.

Tom: Let’s do that thing where we list off things we don’t like about the song. I’ll start: the appalling rapping.

Tim: By a white bloke who really really wants to be black.

Tom: Well, really really wants to be will.i.am, anyway. Moving on: the massive amount of autotune.

Tim: The way it gets your hopes up about it finishing at about 2:12 before coming right back in.

Tom: The overuse of the “lost power” vocal effect to end a line. In fact, all the overuse of vocal effects.

Tim: The way it gets your hopes up about it finishing for a second time about three minutes in before returning for a whole other forty seconds, and then you hate yourself for believing it.

Tom: The Peter Andre Mysterious Girl drums.

Tim: The fact that, due to some of their previous stuff being firmly in Guilty Pleasure territory, I really really want to like this, but the rapping’s just far far too irritating.

Tom: Now, there is one saving grace: the first part of the chorus, that “please just do what I say” before the INJU5TICE Syndome kicks in? It’s amazing. It’s brilliant.

Tim: It is excellent.

Tom: It constantly set me up with that lovely bit, only to knock me down with the Teletubby impression. Which is a shame, really: if it was all like that good part, I think I could really get into this track.

Tim: REMIX.