Tom: Okay, it’s time to find out. Are Fun–
Tim: Actually, it’s–
Tom: Nope. I’m deliberately ignoring their ridiculous name stylisation there – really a one-hit hipster wonder, or can they back it up? “Some Nights”, the second single, managed number 7 – so here’s the third.
Tom: First of all: where the hell have I heard that piano intro before?
Tim: Not sure, because I haven’t. Does go on a bit, though.
Tom: And second: my word, he’s got a good voice. Distinctive, but not distracting: to do the first voice almost a capella is brave, but he can do it.
Tim: Yes, he can. And speaking of that first verse, I was worried for a while that this was going to be their “look at us, we can do a meaningful ballad” track which are so often a pile of cack (YES I’M LOOKING AT YOU, ONE DIRECTION, WITH YOUR ED SHEERAN-PENNED PILE OF BOLLOCKS).
Tom: I believe the technical term is “sack of bollocks”, but yes, you’re right. Is this that ‘meaningful’ ballad though?
Tim: Fortunately, no, and thus doesn’t get me worked up in quite the same way.
Tom: No-one would have predicted “We Are Young” going to number 1, let alone still being in the charts now, and yet – there it is. And now, they’ve got a Celtic-influenced track with a big electric guitar solo and a positive message? I can only hope this does well, because it deserves to.