Tom: I have never heard a more obvious “chuck a millennial whoop in the background” than this track.
Tom: It doesn’t help that those few notes sounds like it’s sampled from Katy Perry’s California Girls, really — it’s pretty the only thing I could remember about this after one listen.
Tim: Ah, see I went for Owl City and Carley Rae Jepsen with the chorus, but, yeah, guess it shows how dam ubiquitous that’s become.
Tom: There’s some lovely vocal work in here, of course, and there’s nothing wrong with the song. (Of course there’s nothing wrong with it; it’s a Kelly Clarkson track, she’s enough of a star she’s only going to released polished stuff.)
Tim: It is, and I mean this in no bad way whatsoever, a typical Kelly Clarkson track.
Tom: Maybe it’s cynically designed for radio airplay: this is the sort of track that will do very well on several genres of hit-radio stations in the US, particularly given the message right now.
Tim: Yep – hang around on the playlists for a month or so and then fade into the background, to be revisited every now and then.
Tom: But I can’t see this being an all-time classic.