There’s still time to redo it as “Completely Fine”…
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Ian Mathers: Every generation gets their own “With or Without You”, I guess. This one ain’t bad!
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Scott Mildenhall: It took Duran Duran almost 12 years to make their way to “Ordinary World”, so 5 Seconds of Summer are several seasons ahead of schedule. The swooping, Tedderish landscape of ambivalence is an appealing gambit, but while the central wordplay is neat, it doesn’t hold enough weight as a hook. Had they really taken the Duran lead and amped up the overblown ad libs and solos, this might have felt more like a finished product.
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Wayne Weizhen Zhang: Two truths can be held at the same time: 1) This is unclever, bottom-of-the-barrel boy band pop. 2) I am so starved for boy band pop that I have no choice but to like this.
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Edward Okulicz: This is a perfectly functional big rock ballad take on the boy band whimper (or vice versa) with big hooks performed with the utmost seriousness. Everything works, but though I want to feel like the “complete”/”complete mess” set-up/tear down is genius, Lit got to the idea first.
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Alex Clifton: Yet another song improved by fiddling with the settings on YouTube — listen to it at 1.25x speed and it’s got a far more delightful energy than the mediocre, turgid ballad it is. Hell, even if they’d just played around with tempo changes in the song, that’d make for a more interesting listen. Quite frustrating as I think with a few of those changes this would be so much more engaging.
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John S. Quinn-Puerta: This is the song that plays at the end of an episode of Gossip Girl where we think Dan and Serena are going to break up but actually they kiss at the end of it.
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