Tim: Back to Denmark, and another demonstration of what a highlight that night was. And here’s a challenge for you: try and keep your legs still while you watch this. (Starts about a minute in.)
Tom: Hmm. My legs stayed still, but it’s still a good track.
Tim: So, the drums give it a bit of a military feel (and make it a great song to accompany a forceful walk), but her looking like that and the backing singers with their wo-oh-oh-ooh-oh give it so much more of a party atmosphere, and I think it’s brilliant.
It’s also ridiculously amazing to dance to – I didn’t really get it so much the first time I heard it, but listened to it whilst waiting for a bus home one night and realised that my legs, all of themselves, were trying to do some sort of dance to it.
Tom: Really? Sorry to fixate on this, but I can’t see this working in a club: the BPM might work for some kind of modern impressionistic dance, but at 1am with a drunk crowd?
Tim: Oh, you’re right there – in a club this wouldn’t really work at all because there’d be arms and heads flailing and that wouldn’t suit it.
But the other night, it might have been slightly because I was on my way home from seeing Singin’ In The Rain so felt in a slightly dancey mood, but since there was no-one else around I though “sod it” and did my damed hardest to tapdance the shit out of this song, and it was BRILLIANT.
Tom: “Tapdance the shit out of this song”. Tim ‘Fred Astaire’ Jeffries, there.
Tim: Oh, and then there’s the key change.
Tom: It’s a good key change.