Tom: This isn’t so much Motown-inspired as “how close can we get to the Ronettes without getting sued“.
Tom: “You might got the biggest ca-aa-ar.” I completely misheard that on the first listen, and I suspect from the following lines that I was meant to.
Tim: Yes, I got quite disappointed when I realised what it actually was.
Tom: Leaving those nitpicks aside, though: how good does this sound? Incredibly clear production, Motown-style harmonies, and successfully recreating the Wall of Sound with some more modern instrumentation chucked in there.
Tim: Aye, it’s very good. I do like this style that Little Mix hit on every now and again, because they seem to do it very well indeed – it’s certainly better than when they advocate roofies, at any rate.
Tom: There are very few other groups you could get away with this right now: without the existing fanbase, I think it’d be rejected as being too retro and too weird. But with a solid fanbase and a track record of switching up styles and genres with every single: yes. I can see this doing very well indeed.
Tim: Well, here’s hoping it does, then.