Tim: New pop song off a weirdly titled Swedish artist: apparently Christina used to dream a lot about bears as a kid, and realised this was because she wasn’t challenging her fears, and so now she is Being The Bear. Or rather, being Be The Bear, which is probably close enough.
Tom: I mean, this is not what I was expecting from you sending an artist with “Bear” in the name, but sure, okay, I’ll go with it.
Tim: What did you exp— you know what, never mind. The intro will remind you of Avicii’s Levels, the rest of the song entirely won’t.
Tim: WHAT A LOT OF FUN. Isn’t it fun? It’s fun.
Tom: It’s another song where the middle eight is the best bit! Which admittedly isn’t a great sign.
Tim: “Bring me the sun or my life will be over” is maybe a tad melodramatic, but given that it’s positively standard compared to my original mishearing of soap instead of sun, I’ve no issue. We’ve a lot of bright and sparkly music here, with similarly bright and sparkly lyrics; the ‘oh, oh-oh oh oh oh, oh-oh oh oh oh’ maaaay possibly become slightly repetitive, but with it being sung in a happy manner there’s not a huge amount to dislike about it.
Tom: So I’m a bit ill at the minute, Tim, and…
Tim: Ah. See, if you’re not feeling in a happy mood, and just feel irritable, then that may not apply. In fact I can see that if that were the case I may well find it just plain annoying.
Tom: Yes. To be fair, though, it actually didn’t irritate me until that weird childlike “don’t you block me”, or whatever she says, just before the final chorus. I heard that, and it was like a switch flipped in my head. Suddenly, yes, I was irritable.
Tim: Hmm. Still, right now I’m happy, so hooray for me!