Tim: We mentioned Oscar the other day, when we were talking about hashtags; this is his #Followup, and now we’re out with the hashtags, in with the replacing words with letters.
Tom: Are you…
Tim: Don’t worry, I won’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPfyaDMPG6E
Tim: This is…hmm. Well. The thing is, the first time I heard this I really liked it – by and large it’s a great track. The chorus in particular is brilliant, with its bog standard message put in a very upbeat manner, quickly and incessantly with decent dance undertones.
Tom: Agreed: that chorus startled me into paying attention to the song. I’m not sure about those verses – it is, as you say, a bog-standard pop track, but not one that turns me off.
Tim: But then…well, I heard it a few more times and the niggles crept in. The realisation that it was called Without U instead of Without You. The lyric that talks about how “my love was set return to sender” that doesn’t actually mean anything at all.
Tom: I think that’s “was then returned to sender”, but that’s not particularly meaningful either.
Tim: The most half-arsed attempt ever at a dubstep breakdown.
Tom: I read that sentence before actually listening to the middle-eight, and you’re right: that is indeed Half-Arsed Dubstep.
Tim: All those just combine, annoyingly, to put me off it slightly. I still like it – just, not unconditionally. Oh well.