Tom: Our regular reader, Luca, sends this one. He includes a paragraph of text that closes with “this was the most moving and original song released this year”.
Tim: Ooh.
Tim: Erm.
Tom: Nope.
Tim: Well, not entirely nope. It could be moving and original, if the chorus was entirely different.
Tom: Sorry, Luca, but I don’t hear it. Each line of that chorus is just two notes ping-ponging back and forth. Is it catchy? Yes. But I don’t want it to be. That’s a really irritating chorus to have stuck in my head.
But I think I know why you might think that: because that middle eight sounds like it belongs to a completely different song entirely.
Tim: Yeah – and also the verses, which do come across dark and emotional, and could arguably be described as moving, but that chorus undoes all the work they put in.
Tom: Which is a great shame! There are small parts of this that are powerful, that are well-written, that tick all the boxes. The chorus? I need to listen to something else to get it out of my head.