Tim: I think we may have here the shortest ever gap between getting kicked off a TV talent show and releasing a single, by which I mean about three weeks. (Sort of – she never actually made it to the Idol 2014 live shows, so it was probably several months ago, but still.)
Tim: So this has its ups and downs, doesn’t it.
Tom: This is going to be a really negative week of reviews from me, isn’t it? It’s another mediocre track that I just can’t get into.
Tim: No? Sure, it’s not a promising start, but I chose to stick with it regardless and I’m rather glad I did, because the chorus is pretty good, even if that unnamed bloke does keep sticking his autotuned gob in and even if the lyric video doesn’t remotely do it justice.
Tom: See, even the chorus doesn’t work for me. There seems to be this trend, at least in the songs we’re reviewing, towards dark and morose songs — either in mood or in lyrics. If you’re going down that route, you’d better make damn sure your production makes up for that inherently downbeat feel.
Tim: You say that, but I reckon it does. I know there’s a fairly significant amount of alteration that’s been done to her voice to but as with yesterday, somehow that doesn’t bother me here. Maybe it’s because the rest of it’s good enough to forgive that?
Tom: I don’t find the middle eight too objectionable, oddly, but aside from that: it’s a no from me.
Tim: Yeah? I mean, it’s not all great, as there are a lot of components in there I’d normally hate – whatever the synthy line is that sounds like it’s straight from a Flo Rida song, for example – but somehow it all seems to work. Quite nicely, in fact.