Tim: Danish bloke, presenting us with a pop/rock ballad of the slightly funked up variety. Interested?
Tom: Yes, but I’m still not convinced by this whole 2015-funk thing.
Tim: Me neither, but have a go anyway:
Tim: It has taken me a long time to get onboard the whole funk resurgence; I only recently started enjoying Uptown Funk, and the intro to this almost completely put me off it before it had had time to get going.
Tom: Yep: the slow parts on this are definitely slow. Middle eights are meant to be a good break, not a time to think “is this still going”? And that intro…
Tim: Indeed, but once that backing humming had gone away in preparation for a decent chorus, I became somewhat quite keen on it, and when said chorus finally arrived: actually rather enamoured.
Tom: Mm. I’m wary of writing this off immediately, because Uptown Funk took me a few listens to get the hang of. While there are certainly some good bits in here, I’m not sure that they make up for the slower, and — to be harsh — duller parts.
Tim: Hmm. I’m just about on the side of “yes they do”, and this’ll do me nicely, as a somewhat halfway gap between genres; similar, I suppose to how Still In Love With You attracted me as a halfway gap between swing and electro.
Tom: There’s much better electroswing out there, you know, if it’s now your thing. Is it?
Tim: Well, it was, until you showed me a particular video and now I can’t stop singing “waffely versatile“.