Bigger is not always better as the cliché goes and this fifth release from the band’s debut album certainly lives up to that, being one of several short songs on the album.
Coming in at a measly 1min 38s it joins tracks such as Blur’s ‘Song 2’, Electric Six’s ‘Gay Bar’ and, er, Jonny Trunk and Wisby’s ‘The Ladies Bras’, among others, as short single releases.
Oh, and don’t forget ‘Spider Pig’ from the Simpsons Movie, the shortest song ever to track, even if you may want to forget it.
But, size isn’t everything and those short songs have gone onto massive cult status around the times of their release and the omens are good for this song as it shares the similar fast paced nature of Blur and Electric Six’s songs with the occasional saucy lyric (“Smaller tits and skinny framework”) but coming in as a fifth single release brings with it its disadvantages. I.e., chances are only their fans will know it’s out.
A song about fashion model Amanda Nørgaard and the lead singer wanting to get a relationship with her – yeah right, in those horned-rimmed glasses in the video? – it actually fits in with its theme in that it’s lean, attractive, looks good and only on display for a short time as it struts down the musical catwalk. It’s also actually the first song of the band’s since ‘Post Break-Up Sex’ that has grabbed my attention.
Certainly it does have all the hallmarks of a summer radio hit with quick pace lyrics, simple but effective rhyming and a guitar and drumming combination that immediately sticks in your brain. Throw in an ‘ooh’ section and the drum-focussed stripped back verse section and it crams a lot of hooks and production tricks into its 90-second runtime, even if they have all become clichéd staples on the circuit.
So is it up there with ‘Song 2’ and ‘Gay Bar’? It possibly won’t get the exposure that they did but stands up as a quick, punchy, short stab of catchiness that, even if it doesn’t do much in the charts, will be on the crib list for radio DJs wanting a short track to fill a gap that other songs are just too big for. Ooh err.
Thursday 25 August 2011
The Vaccines – Nørgaard (Single Release)
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