Barbarellas – Night Mode

Tom: No, really, they’ve got a second single. I didn’t think it’d happen either.

Tom: It’s, um, well it’s pretty forgettable. And that autotune is really grating by a couple of minutes in: the song just never goes anywhere.

Tim: Except for in one ear and out of the other.

Tom: “If you want to be cool / take it back to school”? Bloody hell.

Tim: Well, that is at least better than the next bit, which cleverly rhymes ‘sexy’ with, um, ‘sexy’.

Tom: There is one good thing, though: the one with dark hair doesn’t look like Noel Fielding to me any more. But that’s only because I’ve now watched Blake’s Junction 7, and I now think she looks a bit like Mackenzie Crook in drag.

Tim: And there was me thinking you were going to apologise for before.

Tom: I realise that’s cruel, and I’m sorry. I’m well aware I’m not exactly the least androgynous person in the world. It shouldn’t have anything to do with the review, but I just can’t unsee it. It’s the sharply cut hair and worryingly slim body, I think. Yes. Sorry.