Tom: Good title for both an album and a song. You’ll hate the verses, and I would too, were it not for an astonishing shoutout in the first one.
Tim: Hmm…certainly an interesting one, probably not one that’s ever happened before. In fact, have any architects ever been referred to in pop music?
Tom: I checked Genius for the first architect that came to mind, and: technically yes.
Tim: “Art Garfunkel has stated that the origin of the song came from his request that Paul Simon write a song about the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Simon has stated that he wrote the song despite not knowing who Frank Lloyd Wright was.” Hmm, fair enough.
Tom: Leaving aside architectural shoutouts: I’m not really sending this to you because I think you’ll like it. I don’t think I even like it as a song. But I’m really impressed by how — like the title implies — this is a song that successfully manages to pull together sounds from several different decades.
Tim: Yeah, I think it works – well, sort of. I was enjoying it until I skipped back to the tab and thought “jeez, are we only two minutes in?”
Tom: That… is fair. I think this is a grower, though, like a lot of Dua Lipa’s songs. And how good is that chorus?
Tim: Yep, can’t deny that – it is a good chorus.