Right Said Fred – This Love
If things to go to plan, we’ll have seven songs up today, and it’s at this juncture I should probably point out none of them will be “Poison”…
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Jonathan Bogart: Oh man, 90s nostalgia is gonna suck.
[1]
Martin Skidmore: Turns out that this isn’t a comeback, since they never really went away for long. Richard Fairbrass sounds like a talentless Bowie wannabe, when all anyone liked of them was camp, affable silliness and catchiness, and this has none of that.
[3]
Alfred Soto: Remember Blah Blah Blah-era Iggy? Imagine him singing over a shitty remix of a Happy Mondays track.
[3]
Jer Fairall: Like if Bowie recorded Everything But The Girl’s “Missing” remix sometime around the turn of the 90s, only duller.
[4]
John Seroff: Generic dance music for sleepy middle aged men, “This Love” lacks enough song to make an impression one way or another. This could hail from 1996 or 2010, from Detroit or Hamburg, from Right Said Fred or… oh wait, seriously? It is Right Said Fred? Huh.
[4]
Renato Pagnani: Gives up the goods way too quickly and afterwards things are just awkward. There’s also a strange misalignment between the beat and the vocals, like the track is just a few beats-per-minute too fast for the vocals. It aims to be sexy but it’s too, well, nice.
[4]
Josh Langhoff: This song is making me doze / This song is barely worth dissing / This song, it just sort of blows / This song is talking, not kissing
[4]
Anthony Easton: This love would prefer a small cup of tea, and some quiet conversation.
[3]
I never got further in my writeup that locating that video! Which I thought I remembered viewing as a tiny, except turns out I was thinking of the animation for “Hole in the Ground”