Tom: Our regular Radio Insider, Matt, sends this to us: “It’s generic Gaga crossed with Katy Perry,” he says, “but for some reason I like it.” Can’t say I’ve heard of either Jessie or the Toy Boys before, but previous credits include opening for the Saturdays and, er, ‘inspiring’ a Britney Spears track.
Tom: Matt’s assessment is pretty good – it’s sitting somewhere in between the two Prime Ministers of Pop. The verse is more Gaga, the chorus more Katy Perry – although perhaps a little too close to Teenage Dream.
Tim: I still don’t get what you’ve got against Teenage Dream – I thought (and still think) that’s a fairly decent piece of pop music.
Tom: Teenage Dream is certainly a decent piece of pop – it’s the lack of any real melody in the chorus that gets me, I think. It just seems a bit monotonous. Anyway, Jessie’s track doesn’t suffer from that, and it’s pretty danceable. Pity about the surprise ending, but other than that I’ve got no real complaints.
Tim: Yeah, I’m on roughly the same level there, though I’d take a surprise ending like that over a fade out, say.