Tag: ILY

ILY – You Give Me

“Crack open the pineapple juice and bring on the timpani.”

Tim: Still the middle of February and bloody miserable outside, but that doesn’t mean we can’t crack open the pineapple juice and bring on the timpani.

Tom: I mean, apart from the fact it’s 2018 and we should have left this behind a couple of years ago, but yeah, okay, let’s GET TROPICAL.

Tim: Here is one artist who’s done just that, with a song that’s enjoyable but intensely irritating. Let me know when you realise it.

Tim: Right then, ILY, the song is called You Give Me Life. You know that, you sing it, the words are there. So WHY, dear GOD WHY, is there so, so much of “you g’mm me”? In general, I have no issue with twisted vocal samples – they’re in fashion, and when they’re done well they sound good.

Tom: It is entirely possible to do a chopped-up vocal chorus that sounds great — Rita Ora’s Anywhere, for example, even if it leaves her a bit lost during live performances.

Tim: Except, well, Kygo was recently described on here as letting a toddler loose on the volume control, and not only does that sound like what’s happened here, but you’ve actually thought “thanks toddler, that’ll do” and then thrown it liberally around the song without realising that it sounds awful.

Tom: And it’s a strange choice to make, because it’s not as if there are multiple words being combined here. Is it someone stretching “gimme” out too much? Combining two takes? I’ve no idea.

Tim: AARGH it’s so infuriating, because the rest of it is good!

Tom: Well, let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. It’s okay.

Tim: It’s just that one bit, used so so often, completely kills it. For me, anyway. Grrr.

John Dahlbäck, Albin Myers & ILY – Vibe

“It’s a cut above the normal stuff”

Tim: Summer is coming, no doubt bringing with it a fair number of vaguely enjoyable but largely nondescript dance tracks. Presented here for your vague enjoyment, a song about exactly that.

Tim: So, let’s GET GOING and NOT STOP for at least the next, ooh, four or five months? Then it’ll be probably time for the northern sun to go down and all of us dancers to crawl back into our shells and calm down a bit, because apparently the main them for this year’s partygoers will be TORTOISES, which sounds quite fun, if not particularly exciting.

Tom: Y’know…

Tim: You may be thinking “why is Tim somewhat lazily just picking flaws in the song’s lyrics, just as he did yesterday? Has he got nothing much to say about the tune or the production or the vocals of this song?” Well, to I say “read my first sentence again.”

Tom: I was wondering that, because I’m wondering why you’re not hearing what I’m hearing. This sounds like a modern Kylie track to me. It’s good. There’s that same vocal quality and production, and as nondescript summer tracks go — well, yes, it’s not a floorfiller, it’s a Kylie album track at best, but it’s a cut above the normal stuff, surely?

Tim: Yes, I’m probably being a bit unfair on it. It is indeed sunny outside, so let’s feel that vibe, enjoy the mellow moments and DANCE to the big moments.