Tag: Belle

Tim: Fancy a nicely compiled lyric video with a trick up its sleeve?

Tim: Yes, it’s a heavy electro track with a key change, which isn’t something I ever thought might exist; I had to flip back a couple of times just to check I’d not made it up.

Tim: Do I like this track a lot? Well, maybe on a dance floor with a good number of run and cokes inside me, I could jump around to it and throw my hands up in delight when the key change makes its appearance. On the other hand, typing this at my desk it’s a bit of a racket, albeit a racket I never really thought I’d hear, which is something I suppose.

Tim: Part of me can’t help feeling that they left an apostrophe out of the title of this because no-one was entirely sure where to put it. Anyway, some feminism for you.

Tim: Let’s get through the annoying parts first: the camp voiceover bloke, the existence of ‘anthem’ and ‘women’ as three syllables and aforesaid apostrophe absence. Any others that spring to mind?

Tim: I really don’t think it is, but I suppose time will tell. Anyway, of those three, only one is actually present in the music, and that can be sort of vaguely justified what with rhythm and all that, so first glance: this is okay. Second hearing, though, it’s actually a bit dull, and I’ve realised that not only are lyric videos a cheap way of getting on YouTube but still looking professional —

Tim: — but they can also be a way to distract the listener with pretty effects, a fact which had somehow passed me by until now. It’s not a bad song; it’s just that the lyric video’s more interesting, which I suppose can hardly be construed as heavy praise.