The Feeling - 'Without You'
Feeling fans, do you ever get suspicious that someone might be trying to test your devotion? Do you listen to every new song by the band in total delight, playing it over and over again so that you can learn it faster, only to discover that there's bits of it which are getting in the way of your total enjoyment? Bits which could really easily have just been left out? Cos I do.
If this is a massive hit single, and on past form it probably will be, you can bet that it won't be long before the following lyrical couplet starts to make an appearance in those Worst Lyrical Howlers Of All Time lists.
"Eighty dead and one teenage gun man
I wonder what the time is in London"
Hell, there might even be a TV show which features the list, and comments from such amazing celebs as Sarah Cawood and Goldie Lookin' Chain. They'll recite the lyrics in a slow, deliberate fashion, smirking as they go, and then laugh as if they can't believe the tommyrot which has escaped from their own mouth, before uttering the immortal words "I mean, what is all THAT about?"
And normally, at that point, you'd find me poised over the sofa, cushion in mid-air, hunting frantically for the remote...but there really is something massively clunky about that line. And when you put that within a verse which seems to be a dreamy, floaty version of the second half of the verses to 'I Love It When You Call', and add a chorus which channels the spirit of 'It Ain't Over Til It's Over' by Lenny Kravitz..well it's all a bit odd.
So, if this is a test, if this song is a way of seperating the REALFANS from the FICKLEPOPKIDS, I think I might've failed. Or the band have failed me. One of the two, anyway...
Download: Out now
CD Released: April 21st
(Fraser McAlpine)
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