Tim: Slightly sad song for you today, I’m afraid, as Nadja has come to the realisation that her boyfriend will never get over his ex. Bit like Emily in Friends really, though I’ve no idea why a nineteen year old reference came to mind.
Tom: You had to search for exactly when that episode was released to make that reference, didn’t you?
Tim: Oh, please – what sort of normal person doesn’t know that The One After Ross Says Rachel was at the beginning of the fifth series, from September 1998?
Tom: Incidentally, when that episode came out, Nadja Evelina was about a year old.
Tim: Here’s the song.
Tim: Title translates to “You Two”, chorus ends with the lines “it’s always the two of you”, and even though it’s sad it’s quite a nice sad song, isn’t it? Gradually builds as the song progresses, starting with a gentle plinky plinky piano line, then extra vocals, more piano, drum beat and oh, you don’t need me to describe it since you’ve heard it.
Tom: That’s a fair point. We do that a lot, and I’m not sure we need to.
Tim: Basically, it’s lovely, and almost entirely inoffensive.
Tom: It is, although those don’t necessarily make a good track. There’s a lot of promise here — a lot — but I’m not sure it ever delivers. Just when I think it’s going to get going…
Tim: Yes, that’s the one problem I do have with it: for all the building it does, it never seems to truly arrive with a big crash the way I’d quite like it to. It seems very, very imminent coming up to the second chorus, and then also just after leaving the middle eight, but it always just steps up gradually instead. That rolling piano line is always there, just giving the impression that there’s something round the corner…except there isn’t. Boy, what I’d give there, at that second chorus, for a moment of silence and then a crash of drums – that’d turns the song from good into fantastic.
Tom: Yes! Exactly that. There’s nothing wrong with this, it just feels like it should kick into one gear higher.
Tim: As it is, it’ll stay good, but with a lot of missed potential.