Tim: Here’s a lovely bit of pop for you:
Tim: Gentle to start, slight dip in enjoyability for the pre-chorus, but the chorus is great, with its (admittedly slightly desperate sounding) insistence that everybody love a number one.
Tom: It took me a long while to work out which bits were chorus, pre-chorus and verse: there’s multiple hooks in there, and they’re all pretty good. That introduction’s so gentle that it sounds out of place. And you’re right about that lyric sounding insistent.
Tim: It’s also not quite true, of course – of the seven UK number ones there have been this year, there are at least two that I have very much distinctly not loved – but it’s still a nice idea, and it certainly doesn’t stop the following na, na, nah etc bits being any less very very enjoyable.
Tom: And the vocals back it up, too. I don’t see it being a Massive Summer Hit, but I think that’s down to the style rather than any particular flaw in itself.
Tim: I like this variant of Tove Styrke a lot, so good work, to all involved in bringing it back.