Tim: And you thought The Proclaimers sounded Scottish…
Tom: Someone singing in their natural accent. That’s actually lovely. As indeed, is the entire track: that chorus is just glorious: the fact that the vocals and drums form a complex polyrhythm rather than your normal pop music four-on-the-floor is brilliant.
Tim: As far as I’m concerned, these guys’ tracks veer between “what a racket” and “utterly lovely”; I reckon this falls about eighty per cent of the way towards the latter. The lyrics don’t make that much sense (because however much you want to you can’t go back to the start, because that’s not how time works).
Tom: Oh come on. Really? You’re bitching about pop lyrics not making sense? It’s even an “if you want to”. I don’t hear you complaining the Aqua can’t Turn Back Time, or that Lene from Aqua isn’t actually a Barbie Girl, or that Aqua aren’t actually cartoon heroes.
Tim: See, once at Aqua’s Turn Back Time, most people would have continued the theme and moved to, I don’t know, Cher. But not us! Oh no.
Tom: I’m not sure quite why I went so Aqua-focused there.
Tim: It’s absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. The video here doesn’t really do much except convey the message “don’t owe money to a drug dealer”.
Tom: Which is a good message, to be fair.
Tim: The tune, the singing, the rhythm, and everything else about it, though, is just lovely. Favourite bit? Well, the chorus is lovely in itself, but I reckon I’d go for the closing bit, the instrumental and then the repeating “baby how can you walk away”, which I think is just great. Much like everything, really. Magical, wonderful, whatever. Though actually, what does “make this biblical” mean?
Tom: Okay, I’ll grant you, that bit doesn’t actually make any sense. It’s great, though.