Tom: This is so much less than the sum of its parts.
Tim: Oh, God, I’ve heard this on the radio, and it’s awful – why are you trying to make me listen to this?
Tim: I hadn’t seen the video. It doesn’t really improve anything. The only good thing about it is Jason’s facial hair, which NEVER FAILS to impress me.
Tom: It’s a shame, really. Sampling ‘Day-O’ as your chorus – and then twisting it to be the opposite of the original – is actually a pretty good gimmick. And “Show Me Love” is a pretty good track – I can imagine any number of decent songs coming from reimaginings of that.
Tim: Yeah. And I can imagine any number of bad ones as well. This is somewhere near the top of that list.
Tom: In those first few seconds – the a cappella intro and the start of the backing – I thought “this is going to be brilliant”. And then he sang his own name, and it went so, so wrong.
Tim: As ever.
Tom: Here, have some Muppets to make you feel better.
Tim: Helps a bit. Cheers.