Tim: The Saturdays have just celebrated their fifth birthday; here’s a fairly new girl group that are presumably hoping for the same sort of success (perhaps even with a number 1 thrown in for good measure).
Tom: Unexpected drum and bass backing! Genuinely surprised by that – and it’s a sign of how that particular backing has become almost old-fashioned in pop music. Things move pretty fast.
Tim: They do, which is often nice, unless it’s something you’re particularly attached to. Oh, Flip & Fill.
(just having a moment here)
Tom: Do you… do you want to be alone?
Tim: Err, no, I think I’m done now. Right, this song. Verses: standardish, but not at all bad. Pre-chorus: a tad dull. Chorus: amazing, and to be honest it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out that the pre-chorus was toned down deliberately just to highlight this. Dubstep breakdown: simultaneously came out of nowhere and entirely failed to surprise me.
(Sidenote: I like the way this lyric video demonstrates the visual difference between genres; I’m not sure it’s been done before.)
Second part of the middle-eight: lovely, gently bringing us back to the aforementioned amazing chorus. Which is amazing. Isn’t it?
Tom: I wouldn’t go so far as “amazing” for the chorus, but it’d certainly keep me dancing, and I can’t ask for more than that.