Tim: “I feel like this song could have come out last year, and it’d still sound dated,” you said of Samir & Victor’s Groupie. Well, here’s a treat for YOU, because can you guess what the swiping in the title refers to?
Tom: Well, that’s TERRIBLE.
Tim: Ahahaha – you know, I watched that entire first verse with a massive grin on my face, purely because of how entirely awful it is but mostly because of the knowledge that you’d soon be watching it.
Tom: And the second verse is even worse. Fairly sure they won’t have cleared any of those celebrity photos, either.
Tim: And even if they didn’t, who in their right mind thinks Harry Styles is the ugly one compared to Ed Sheeran?
Moving on from that initial enjoyment, though, the pre-chorus wiped that right away because it’s just bloody terrible, but then the sax came back in and it’s actually got a very decent dance section in there, which surprised me somewhat.
Tom: Yep, I actually held out some hope when that sax sample showed up in the introduction. The thing is, switch the lyrics out a bit, bump the production up a couple of notches, and pretend that Mr Saxobeat never happened, and this might just have been a summer hit. As it is: sorry, Kiddo.
Tim: Oh. Oh, very good sir. But overall, I’m not sure what to think about it – yes, it’s for the most part awful, but I wouldn’t be completely surprised if it took off slightly over the summer.