Tom: My word, Fragma’s still releasing tracks? I was fairly sure that it’d be over for her by now. Well done her.
Tim: The video’s been around a couple of months, but we’re now getting a proper release. Well, according to stuff their record label sends out; it’s been available to buy on iTunes since the end of September.
ANYWAY, that’s not important. What is important is this video. Tell me, Tom, how do you rate your knowledge of popular music videos in general?
Tom: Well, not bad.
Tim: And now?
Tom: Not quite good enough.
Tim: Let’s be honest: the music pretty much just hums along in the background for most of that, because there isn’t really much to the verses, and the video’s far too interesting for that to matter.
Tom: I got a lot of those references – even the view from the train window – but I suspect about half of them were lost on me.
Tim: Having said that about the music, though – every now and again, when Kylie or Lady Gaga comes along, that chorus appears, and you realise that it’s a bloody brilliant chorus. Then there’s the second key-shifted part of the chorus with Rihanna or Britney, and it’s even better. And when it drops back to the verse? Well, you just concentrate on the video again.
Tom: I tried listening to it without the video. It wasn’t really worth it.
Tim: Perhaps not. But as a musical accompaniment to the video, I think it’s great.