Tim: Pandora: A Swedish lady off the 90s, whose song ‘Why’ had a chorus being used here. (See? I do know some old stuff.)
Stacy: A Latvian person taking that song, stripping out pretty much everything but said chorus’s vocals and adding her own stuff.
Tim: ‘Her own stuff’ here being the fantastic electronic backing, the foreign singing after the choruses and the foreign rapping.
Tom: “Foreign”? Oddly, it seems to have a bit of a Lonely Island vibe to it to me – something in the cadence, I think.
Tim: Two out of those three things are great; the less said about that latter one the better, I think.
Tom: That is some lovely synth work on the backing, isn’t it? After the track gets rid of the Twilight Zone pretentions at the start, it’s really rather listenable. But yes, pity about the rapping.
Tim: Video’s interesting; I like to imagine a conversation. “Hey, Pandora? Got this Latvian bird on the phone, says she wants to use your song.” “Yeah, sure, but only if I get to play some sort of religious omniscient goddess in the video.” “Erm, hang on…yeah, she says that’s fine.” “Sorted. But I warn you, if I don’t get some fucking MASSIVE wings, I’ll throw a serious hissy fit. Oh, and I want monks dressed in binbags as well.”
Tom: Wow. It’s like I’m in the room when that happened.