Tim: Dear Lord, this is cheesy.
Tom: How cheesy?
Tim: Imagine a fondue the size of a palace, and instead of dipping bread and stuff in it you’re dipping entire bedroom-sized lumps of gruyère. That sort of cheesy.
Tom: Metaphor of the year award, there.
Tim: And you’ll LOVE it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSSWnhRJAno
Tom: Wrong.
Tim: Oh, you do surprise me.
This is a recently-married husband and wife couple, we’re told by e-mailer Simon, which makes it somewhat probable that this is their actual wedding we’re watching; I don’t know whether that’s a great idea for a song like this or just plain creepy.
Tom: That’s one way to get your wedding reception paid for, I suppose, although spending the entire party singing one song while the crew get all the shots they need must have put a bit of dampener on it. (Did they have a crew? Or was the cameraman just a drunk uncle? Apparently the budget didn’t stretch to a jib or making sure the people in the background looked like they were interested.)
Seriously, that bartender in the background is all I can see during those singing-at-each-other shots.
Tim: “I’m sorry, look, I’m trying to do the washing up here, could you please give me a bit of room? Or at least turn off that bloody camera? This really isn’t my best angle, you know.”
Anyway, the music is what matters, I suppose, and to be honest, I’m actually not all keen it. I know this is the same me that fell in love with Destiny by since-then-entirely-unheard-from Play (twelve months ago today, as it happens), but that had something that this doesn’t. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is, but this is definitely lacking something.
Tom: Inspiration? A video that looks like it has production values? Come on, even Steps managed that, and they were walked down the aisle by their actual, real-life fathers.
Tim: Effort, there. Maybe a better beat to it? More volume in the voice? Something, anyway.
Tom: Let’s put it this way, Tim: I sighed at the key change. I don’t think I’ve ever sighed at a key change before.