Tim: This Danish group had a brilliant album about five years ago, My Secret Lover, and this is the lead single from their new album. And it too is great.
Tom: Crikey! Staccato drumbeats and 80s synths. I was not expecting that.
Tim: Good, aren’t they? Weirdly, I think I’ve subconsciously started blocking out rap bits from songs when I’m listening to them, because the first few times I listened to this I always thought afterwards “well sure, that’s a great chorus and that, but are there not any verses somewhere?”
Tom: The trouble with rap bits in songs like this is that my brain immediately goes “Peter Andre” and “Mysterious Girl”. It’s not a good connection.
Tim: So the seventh time I listened to it I paid proper attention to the rapping, and then realised I needn’t have bothered, because there isn’t much of it, and what there is is just a load of nonsense describing various rude things which just aren’t necessary in a lovely pop song which has not one but two brilliant hooks. That is to say, this one.
Tom: I know swearing’s pretty much standard in pop songs, but somehow it still caught my attention here. The hooks seem so, well, innocent that having the odd f-bomb in there stands out.
Tim: It really does. But then on the other hand even I would have to say that nearly four minutes of just “I’m in love” and “G-girl I’ll take you anywhere” might just get tiresome*, so I suppose it’s a necessary evil, and it doesn’t actually sound all that bad when it’s in there. But couldn’t he have talked about ponies or something?
Tom: I think it’s probably best not to talk about ponies in a love song. There are some unfortunate implications.
Tim: Not necessarily.
Tom: I know what that is, and I’m not bloody clicking it.