Wtf? Are you serious? This is fucking awful.

The first time I heard this I lasted twenty seconds before running away.

Why is this singer doing a Robert Smith impression, minus lyrics that are any good, over an absurdly upbeat indie discoinstrumental? I thought.  But since
it would have been incredibly unprofessional to review a single based on twenty seconds of listening time (I turned it off when the girl started ‘rapping’), I forced myself to watch their music video repeatedly hoping that I would see what all the fuss was about.

It did actually grow on me briefly, before withering away and dying exposing itself as the pap that it is.

With a different singer this track might work. There’s definitely a place for Cure inspired singing in pop music but this is the wrong song to do it on.

And look,  I like 'Hey Mickey' as much as the next 80’s nostalgist, hell, I
even liked 'Hollaback Girl' but cheerleader rapping just doesn’t work on a record that sounds like it was written by Mika if he was going through an ‘indie’ phase.

Dan Robinski

Posted In Single Reviews, Sep 11 2008. Words - Publisher 1