Tim: Both from Norway and both with this as their second single; hopefully you’ll enjoy it. Couple of notes first: a few of quietly dropped in f-bombs, and if you only want the music you can safely skip to 40 seconds in.
Tom: skips forward
Tom: This sounds like a LOT of other songs, Tim. There are melody lines in here that trigger all sorts of memories: particularly The Kinks, but a few other things too. Nothing close enough to be plagiarism, just enough to be irritatingly familiar.
Tim: It’s been a while since we had a decent ballad on here, unless I’ve just forgotten them, which I suppose kind of knocks out the ‘decent’ part of it really. Pleasingly, this is quite a nice return to them, particularly as a (slight) duet.
Tom: And doing a final chorus that is just “la, la, la” is always a nicer ending than just repeating-to-fade. That one-note-of-acapella trick works well too.
Tim: So musically we’re all good. As for lyrics: I like the message of it – I know I’ve done something slightly wrong but you’ve crossed the line, but we can still get back together if you’re sorry.
Bit like Ross and Rachel the first time, I suppose, if you want a twenty year old comparison. Speaking of which, did you see recently that Ross was voted Britain’s favourite one of the six of them? Bloody disgrace if you ask me. I know Britain’s made some dodgy decisions this year but that one really does take the biscuit.
Tom: I’ve never actually seen Friends.
Tim: WHAT. Are you kidding me? Bloody hell. I don’t know what this means for the future of our partnership.