Tom: There is very little pop music coming out this month, so I’m casting the net a little further aside. The last time I heard the Veronicas, it was nearly ten years ago, and they’d just come out with an album of competent but slightly generic girl-power pop. To be honest, I was a bit surprised they were still going…
Tom: …let alone that they’ve gone all political.
Tim: Well to be fair, if you want a first-world country that’s a deserving target of a video promoting ACCEPTANCE and COMPASSION, Australia’s a pretty good bet.
Tom: I mean, the video description links to Sea Shepherd and to Russell Brand, and they’re literally flying their flags in the video. Bit weird, especially for a song that seems to have a few notes in common with The Saturdays’ Higher.
Tim: Yeah, I got that as well – doesn’t help that the not-actually-that-many notes it does have in common get pumped out right at the very start.
Tom: The trouble is, with that video, it’s sitting in an odd uncanny valley: it’s released by Sony Music, filmed on a high budget, and doesn’t really have any revolutionary messages in it. On its own, the song is… well, it’s good, I guess? It’s certainly not bad, it just… well, I kept wanting to sing “Higher” instead.
Tim: Certainly listenable, and you’re right, the political message is half-arsed at best. But yes, Higher’s a much better track, particularly the Flo Rida-less album version.
Tom: Also, can we have an intervention for whoever’s making their posters? Spewing out large, A4, Times New Roman sheets from Microsoft Word really ain’t the best way to make a prop, folks.