Now that there is some serious emotional face.
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Katherine St Asaph: Sometimes, in order to learn that you drink too much, it helps to sober up and confront a humiliating recording of your drunken self. You might find yourself sounding like The Script.
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Jer Fairall: Crying-in-your-beer balladry delivered with Blunt (as in James) force, and further proof that if anyone ever learned anything useful from U2, it is The Edge’s sense of chiming, widescreen guitar dynamics. The latter just about sells me on the whole thing.
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Edward Okulicz: Flopped in the UK last year, now a big hit in the U.S for reasons unknown to me, because it sounds like Keane with a bit of Feeder thrown in for bad measure. This must be that American Exceptionalism thing presidential candidates go on and on about, right? Because it’s certainly not a good song.
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Brad Shoup: Until this single, I was sure these guys were American. They drink like Billy Currington, they named an album Science and Faith for fuck’s sake, and they’ve got that patchouli delivery I keep forgetting isn’t endemic to these shores. “Nothing” is a drunk/dialing tune that scales from sham-intimate fretwork to arena size in no time. Hip-hop was the best thing that could have happened to Danny O’Donoghue’s rigid tenor – which will almost certainly be tagged “blue-eyed” by Rolling Stone in the next few months – allowing him to substitute cadence for belting. Trying to get us to see a breakup as anything other than the natural course of things, the Script pile on the line-ending echo and constant cello. Apparently these bros don’t know Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character in (500) Days of Summer was a tool.
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Doug Robertson: If only he’d just get laid, then we might finally be free from the constant parade of similarly whiny, self pitying slop that counts as an acceptable release in the lonely bedroom at Script towers where the evenings are regularly filled with a more unacceptable release. Can someone please take one for the team? You’d be doing us all a favour.
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Jonathan Bogart: You can’t title your single that without expecting some weisenheimer to shout out “It sure is!” I guess I’ll be that weisenheimer for this round.
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Alfred Soto: Coldplay with Kansas’s singer mouthing passive-aggressive drivel — whatta concept!
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