Tag: Yasmin

Yasmin – Finish Line

Harmless.

Tom: This is an odd one, Tim. You’ll remember that our regular Radio Insider said that if Yasmin’s previous track wasn’t big, he’d “buy a hat so [he] can eat it”. Well… it hit 39 in the charts, but he’s gone double-or-nothing on this one, which has already reached the heady heights of number 13.

Tom: I have no idea how this got to number 13 at all.

Tim: Were I limited to one word, I would describe this as ‘harmless’.

Tom: It’s a curious mix of Virtual Insanity (“Future’s…”), Year 3000 (“Sepa- / ration- / you and- / me and-“), and Mortal Kombat (“FINISH LINE”). But it’s somehow less than the sum of its parts. It’s listenable enough, I suppose, once you get over the low-fi ‘finish line’ sample and the urge to break into Busted.

Tim: Yeah – there’s nothing particularly wrong with it, although the yeah-eh-i-yeah-blah-blah bit is just annoying and repetitive enough to get stuck, and I would turn it off. Wouldn’t ring up a request show for it, though.

Tom: I’m not sure why her bed eats her at the end of the video.

Tim: I’m just intrigued as to why two people who are clearly aware they they can’t touch each other still went through the processes of getting half-naked and ending up in bed together.

Tom: Sounds like most marriages, doesn’t it?*

*That joke brought to you by the 1970s.

Yasmin – On My Own

FWEEP.

Tom: “If this isn’t big,” writes Matt, our resident Radio Insider, “I’ll buy a hat so I can eat it.”

Tom: So: let’s run through FWEEP the basics. A horn section; a FWEEP drum and bass backing; a gorgeous voice and FWEEP… is that you, Tim?

Tim: Erm – say what now?

Tom: You know what. Inserting that ‘FWEEP’. The horn squeal. The one that’s really FWEEP bloody noticeable, because it’s been used as FWEEP the main part of ‘Insane in the Membrane‘, and ‘Jump Around‘?

Tim: Oh, that.

Tom: It can’t actually be in Yasmin’s track, because no producer would FWEEP be insane enough to include a sample like that. It’s all anyone will hear. No matter FWEEP how good the rest of the track is – and this track is good – all anyone’s going to hear is FWEEP.

Tim: You think? Because – actual truth – I didn’t notice it until the last part. It’s quiet and infrequent enough for it not to stand out too much, at least until it appears on its own towards the end. The one annoying thing about it is that now I have heard it, I always expect it to hit on the first beat instead of the last. That is what annoys me about it, and the rest is good. But yes – odd placement.

Tom: FWEEP.

Tim: Shut up.

Tom: …fweep?