Christie & The Dream Beats – My Boyfriend’s Clothes

“How is a song with chirpy whistling and a vocoder charming?”

Tom: Or, sometimes, “Dream Beats and Christie”. Looks like they’ve settled on the more traditional arrangement, though.

Tim: Yes, and we had a lot of time for this band’s previous track, Wasn’t My Fault, and it’s still on my go to playlist for a pickup track. Here’s their current track.

Tom: How is a song with chirpy whistling and a vocoder charming? I know it’s a subtle vocoder, but still, that’s not meant to be possible.

Tim: And it’s a song like Tuesday’s Ace Wilder track: I like it, it’s good, but damn I wish I could get past trying to remember what song it is that it reminds me of. It’s from the very first vocal line “you should be getting on your plane” except the note for plane jumps up much higher in the song I’m thinking of but ANYWAY.

Tom: One of the choruses from Gwen Stefani’s What You Waiting For? The hook of Nelly’s Dilemma, on the way into the middle eight?

Tim: No, neither of those. But where were we? Oh, yeah, it’s a good track. Doesn’t quite hit the heights of the previous, but it’ll do for a summery whistly track. I particularly like the vocal part of the chorus, with its business-like atmosphere, “this is what I do, I don’t care what you think”. All in all, and particularly if I can get over the soundalike, not bad.

Tom: I mean, it’s not “Wasn’t My Fault”, but I think it’ll be a long time before I hear a big track like that.

Tim: I would like an album from these folk at some point, though.

Christie & The Dream Beats – Wasn’t My Fault

“Almost on a par with Avril Lavigne at the very top of her game.”

Tim: Press play, and ENJOY the glorious chorus that awaits.

Tom: Chorus?! Never mind the chorus, just that first verse is brilliant. I mean, don’t get me wrong, that is a spectacular chorus, one of the best I’ve heard in a good while, but when even the first verse gets me interested, we’ve got a great song.

Tim: Christie is British, the Dream Beats are a Swedish pair, and when they get together they are, it seems, able to produce pop music that’s almost on a par with Avril Lavigne at the very top of her game.

Tom: You know how damn cynical I am about songs, Tim. Nearly everything that comes through here, I’m going “meh” at. Not this. This is amazing. (And slightly reminiscent of Coldplay’s Yellow at the end of the verses, but that’s my brain making connections, not any sort of allegation.)

Tim: The attitude, the strength of the lyrics and the sheer vibrancy of everything going on, particularly in that wonderful and enormous chorus, just sounds fantastic. And what a fantastic message! ‘Yep, I slept with him, but dammit he was hot (and he was the one looking to get laid, not me) so I should really get a pass’. I mean I’d definitely forgive that. Who wouldn’t, really?

Tom: I’m generally in favour of messages like that, too.

Tim: All in: massive chorus, great lyrics, top marks, well done.