Mischa Daniels & Sandro Monte feat. J-Son – Simple Man

Two dance producers, one previously-heard vocalist, no real surprises.

Tim: Two dance producers, one previously-heard vocalist, no real surprises.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKzKboNTtxI

Tim: Standard robotic voice that we’ve come to expect from ‘this sort’ of musician (if you know what I mean) (i.e. not particularly musical) (i.e. not remotely musical if he doesn’t have his auto-tuner); decent enough tune, at least once he’s shut up and given what for the main synths; anything else to add?

Tom: You missed the standard euphoric build (as wonderfully deconstructed by Brett Domino at the end of this medley) and the standard breakdown in the middle. It’s… well, it’s standard, isn’t it?

Tim: Standard.

Eric Saade feat. J-Son – Hearts in the Air

We seem to have left Manboy far behind.

Tim: Don’t give up on this too soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJDxvuOh2fk

Tim: Intro: dire. Verse: somewhat crap.

Tom: I rather liked the intro, but I’ll agree with you that the verse is terrible.

Tim: Chorus: good when it starts, heading for GREAT from the ‘why should I care what they say’ bit. But that’s all the positiveness I can really give this – it’s just nothing special. Unfortunately we seem to have left Manboy far behind, and that’s a big shame.

Tom: It’s just not got that sense of excitement about it – a lovely chorus like that shouldn’t sound like it’s being sung by rote.

Tim: Actually, scratch what I said about it not being special, because there’s the bridge. This s special, because it lures you in like an evil temptress, with a reworked second (a.k.a. best) half of the chorus, and then right as you’re gearing up for a great key change at 2:39 that will make this song alright, perhaps even downright good, it comes back. With a bloody awful rap bit. I had never heard of him before today, but right now I hate this J-Son bloke, for ruining our Eric.

Although I also hate him because it took me a good twenty minutes to realise his name is a play on Jason. Or at least I think it is, but then Jason isn’t actually his name – basically, it seems he chose a name that may or may not be a bad rewriting of something that isn’t his name but that took me too long to figure out even if it wasn’t there to figure out in the first place. I am entirely confused now, and hatred is all I have left.

Tom: Hey, it took me years to work out that “Flo Rida” was a pun on “Florida”.

Tim: True. Still can’t believe that.