Tom: “Chained to the Rhythm“, while we never wrote about it here, was a brilliant first single from the upcoming album, matched with a creative video. So surely the second one’s going to be at least clo– well, you can probably see where I’m going back to this.
Tom: Full marks for including the acute diacritic in “appétit”. No marks for basically any other part of this song.
Tim: Yeah. It starts low with the mandatory school register, and never really improves.
Tom: No melody to speak of. Repetitive as hell. Really dire lyrics that are just a series of bad food/sex metaphors. The unnecessary, but inevitable, rap middle eight.
Tim: You know it’s coming, you don’t want it to, because you know it’ll sound bad, but there it is anyway, adding absolutely nothing to the song at all.
Tom: The final chorus isn’t that bad, but by the time it arrives, I was more than ready to skip.
Tim: NEXT PLEASE.