Bekker – Right on Time

Standard Star Pilots style tune… ludicrous key change.

Tim: Bekker, also known as Johan Becker, also known as him off of Star Pilots, presents us with this three-minute number.

Tom: A bold choice for a title there, given that many people will confuse it with Ride on Time, but let’s have a listen.

Tim: Standard Star Pilots style tune, with a nice pop/dance mix. While this is good, it wouldn’t really be enough to get me that excited.

Tom: Decent chorus, standard vocals. Nothing wrong with it, it’s just a bit, well, normal.

Tim: Except, of course, for the somewhat excellent five seconds that start at 2:20.

Tom: That’s a ludicrous key change right there.

Tim: It is, and I can’t help feeling that overall it doesn’t really help the song, because that sort of knocks the rest of it into mediocrity by comparison. It has a great chorus, better than average verses, but I said at the beginning it wouldn’t get me excited. And yet this song should. So here, I think we’ve found a key change that actually harms the song.

Tom: Yep. He’d have been better off cutting it beforehand – although two minutes might be a bit too short even for a track like this.