Tim: I’ve never understood people who get up and leave cinemas the instant the main film ends. First off, you’re almost always missing out on nicely designed main credits scenes; secondly, there’s a chance there’s extra scenes coming up; thirdly, and most importantly, you won’t hear potentially great music, like this.
Tom: I was all set to agree with you (because, after all, Owl City’s song from Wreck-It Ralph was amazing), but…
Tim: Well, now, wait Tom, because you may well have your fingers already poised to type things like “oh god” and “I want to shoot the person who came up with these lyrics”, but first: at least give me the fact that this is the first song we’ve ever featured to contain a Chinese rap section, so there’s at least that to appreciate.
Tom: I mean, that’s fair, but the rest is rather… generic to say the least.
Tim: I’ll pick you up on that in a bit, but for that rap: while it’s hardly surprising that Google doesn’t handle Chinese-English translations brilliantly, it does provide a phonetic guide so you can rap along, or in any case TRY (see what I did there) to do it. You may find it nearly impossible, but (as Master Shifu says in the film), “If you only do what you can do, you’ll never be more than you are now.”
Tom: I believe you tweeted that with “#deep”, which I think sums up my feelings on it.
Tim: Oh, but it just so is. Anyway, I could go on about inspirational messages (or, depending upon your point of view, patronising and condescending bullshit), but since we’re unlikely to agree I’ll move on and just say that this is the first song in a while that’s got me leaving the cinema with it stuck in my head and wanting to look it up when I got home. And I think that’s a mark of decent pop music, really, and particularly the try/fly/high repetitions in the chorus. But if you’re not happy with that, maybe The Vamps attempting kung fu and stuffing James’s mouth with dumplings will entertain you instead.
Tom: Daz did it better.
Tim: Hmm. A debate for another day, perhaps.