Tim: You may remember Eric Turner as the guy who added excessive inhalation to Written In The Stars a couple of years back.
Tom: Oh, but what a voice he had – if you ignore the inhalations, it sounded beautiful.
Tim: Now, he’s breathing less, but to compensate for losing that annoyance he’s got a whole new one. So let’s have a game of Count The Typos!
Tim: It doesn’t get off to a good start – a misspelling in the first line is hardly what you’re after – and then we have missing apostrophes, question marks in silly places, and all sorts of other stuff to irritate the pedants.
Tom: I actually switched to another tab – the bouncy hyperactive camera movements and graphics were a bit too much. I couldn’t properly listen to the music at the same time.
Tim: I quite liked that part of it, to be honest.
However, we’re not here to criticise that (not that that’s ever stopped us before, but anyway), we’re here to do the music. Which is good.
Tom: It is, although crikey, it does seem to go on a bit. The melody is something that a primary school kid could sing easily – perhaps a bit too simple, instead of soulful.
Tim: Simple, perhaps, but that does make it a catchy chorus with a great backing to it (though that was probably a given).
Tom: True. It sounds like Aviici’s regular style, and that’s a good thing. Eric Turner’s voice is lost among the instrumentation though.
Tim: The lyrics of said chorus work well as a slightly weird metaphor to the ex and proper instructions to the crowd in front of him when he’s doing this live, which is presumably the point. The only thing that I don’t like (well, why? wouldn’t we finish a positive review with a negative point) is the ‘cursed’ bit – if he let her go, as he tells us, then as far as I’m concerned he’s only got himself to blame. Foolish man.
Tom: You know what I’d like to see? A concert with Eric Turner, Frank Turner and Tina Turner singing together. I’m not sure why.
Tim: That would be interesting, but what I’d really like is a week of X Factor dedicated to those artists, because that way Bonnie Tyler could come on at the start and introduce it as the Turner Round.