Tom: Ah, these guys again! Not a cover of an odd track, this time?
Tim: No, a new one. This appeared last Wednesday, but I only saw it on Saturday, and I thought we should probably leave it until now because, well, check the title.
Tim: As a poor, crappy retail worker I have little love for Fridays, coming as they do not before the weekend but before the worst day of the week, but it’s still hard to hear this without feeling some appreciation for that particular day. You said recently that Rebecca Black had ruined Friday for all future songwriters; turns out that’s not quite true because this song has all the marking of a fairly decent pop song.
Tom: It does – as soon as they started the sort-of-rap part, I started thinking of what 5ive might be bringing out if they were still around.
Tim: The rap/pop thing is interesting, in that it’s not really been done at all since, like you said, 5ive, way back when and pre-Big Reunion. Still works, though, so good work to them for trying to bring it back.
Tom: I briefly thought that The Fooo seemed a bit more aimed at kids than 5ive were, I then remembered that I’m older now and they’re probably about the same.
Tim: It’s catchy, it’s upbeat, and admittedly they’re probably singing more from the “we don’t have to go to school tomorrow” area than the “we don’t have to go to work tomorrow” one, but who cares? It’s a very enjoyable message which, well, a good 70% of the population can probably get behind. And if you can get that number on your side you can pretty much do what you want. World domination lies ahead. Or perhaps not. Probably not, really, because they’re a slightly above average Swedish boyband and not Richard III, but anyway, I’m drifting. Good track, well done to all involved.