Tom: Cue the overly masculine video: The Wanted are back.
Tim: Anecdote of the day: found out recently I work with a bloke who does quite a lot of music video shooting. Turns out that we’re not the only ones who find the overt manliness of The Wanted’s efforts somewhat laughable. Or, in fact, that The Collective was a bloody awful excuse for a charity single.
Tom: And this time, their PIANO is ON FIRE.
Tom: Literally, I mean. There’s a piano on fire.
Tim: Brilliant.
Tom: And they seem to have got a bit of an orchestral backing to this one – and dubstep! There’s an unmistakable WUB WUB WUB being put in there – it’s not strong, but it’s another sign of how mainstream that style’s going.
Tim: Oh yeah. And this is a great track – certainly one of the best on the album. Mainly because of the way it all works so well when it’s together – the dupsteppy bits, the strings – shouldn’t work in theory, totally does.
Tom: Is it me, though, or is there some rather obvious autotune in places? The “shoulda known” at 0:52, for example.
Tim: Of course there is. You’ve got dubstep, you might as well throw a bit of robo-voice on there to add something else.