Tom: Last time we heard from Martin Solveig, he’d hit the big time with “Hello” and had a video of himself playing tennis against Bob Sinclar.
Tom: This time, there’s less tennis, less sanity, and a much less catchy track.
Tim: Same amount of bassline in fact. Or, more concisely, same bassline.
Tom: It’s still clearly Martin Solveig – it sounds like he’s just tweaking his synth settings a bit to create what is now his trademark sound. But the melody on top of it just isn’t the same.
Tim: No. What is it, actually? I can’t remember.
Tom: It doesn’t have that same kind of shout-along, dance-along quality that Hello did. It’s not bad – but if he’s going to put out something this close to his last big hit, then he’s got to be careful that the first thought you get isn’t “the last one was better”.
Tim: Actually, I reckon the first thought most people would have is ‘what’s this weird mash-up of Hello?’
It could be argued, though, that this is actually a very different song – the first was, let’s be honest, just a chorus (can you remember anything else of it?), whereas this one has nothing particularly memorable at all, much as a track without any chorus would likely be.
It’s not bad – danceable and all that – but with that intro, people (i.e. excited clubbers who love the big hits) will be disappointed it’s not what they were expecting.