Chris Meid feat. Tabor & Phyne – Eye Of The Tiger

“It’s… surprisingly good?”

Tim: I blame Jonas Blue, personally – or, more precisely, the record streaming public who made his tropical cover of Fast Car such a smash hit. Without that there’d be no Never Gonna Give You Up, and no Africa, and no this.

Tim: Except I don’t know if ‘blame’ is the right word, because part of me thinks ‘credit’ should be used instead.

Tom: It’s… surprisingly good? I mean, I’m not sure if it’s actually good because all I can hear is “it’s a cover”, but I was surprised it wasn’t terrible.

Tim: Right – it’s not a bad track, because what we’ve got, underneath the lifted vocal, is a pretty decent instrumental dance tune – those strings, in particular, are very nicely done. I’d quite like just an instrumental version of this, to be honest, to see how similar it is to Europe’s track – I’m having trouble separating the vocal and instrumental, but I do think it’s different enough to be largely unrecognisable.

Tom: It also shows up the current trend for instrumental dance choruses: the entire old-chorus gets shifted to the building pre-chorus, and the chorus gets a Kygo-style (a very Kygo-style) set of chopped-up lyrics.

Tim: And so my question is this: why cheapen this by putting those lyrics on it? Yes, it gets more attention, but it’s surely not going to be good attention – Popjustice recently described it as “Wrong of the week”. Different lyrics on here, though, and you might have had a good track. Shame.