Clean Bandit

it's one of my most played songs of the year. i don't really understand how anyone could hate on it.

Ooh, there's a Pentatonix version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWPa-HMpj8

(Paging DJP.)

Wondering how popular this song has become in the U.S. after hearing it on the radio for the 2nd time tonight. Made it to #10 at one point and 23 weeks on the chart.

love this song

And, what do you know, just heard it for the 3rd time. My 13 y.o. daughter knows this song.

This song should be a hit everywhere.

it pretty much was

missed the top 40 in Japan but that's about it

ha that's perfect

japan rejecting the orientalism :)

this song is v boringly pleasant

the one dropped snare in the middle of the chorus is everything imo

I remember this song

was a good song imo

Rev otm

the one dropped snare in the middle of the chorus

It's almost not even a chorus. It sounds like a pre-chorus but then there is no chorus, just the vamping on the title words. I think it's a beautiful construction.

Oh, I just heard the dropped snare! You were talking about the vamping part as being the chorus.

That also suggests that the part before ("If you gave me a chance..." etc.) is a pre-chorus.

there's some interesting ideas going on in the newest single with jess glynne but i'm not sure if it really comes together as well as it ought to

i just think of it as a chorus with multiple parts. is it really a vamp if it appears with every single chorus?

I think so. I don't think the term is only used to describe situations where improvisation is going on.

The chorus is "No-no no-no / No place I'd rather be"

The rest of this album has faded but Rather Be sounds better than ever.

I played out a remix of this on Friday night as the last song of the evening and it was joyous.

I don't really get the 'boringly pleasant' tag it's been given. There are so many different hooks, and as is alluded to above, it's hard to tell which bit is the chorus. I also like the casual cheesiness of 'with every step we take/Kyoto to Dubai'. And the way the little 'dadalada-da-dah / dadalada-da-dah dah' vamp gets passed on from instrument to instrument. And that missed snare. And the way it drops out and comes back in with 'yeah-e-yeah-e-YEAH-E-YEAH-E YEAH YEAH!'. I like it all really.

oh and the almost-clumsiness of those club-marimbas on some of the phrases where they sound like a fumble, but it's def on purpose.

and the italo-house pianos and how they land and mimic the rhythmic pattern of 'it's a shot in the dark but I'll MAKE. IT.'

Can we go back to the "Chris Martin soundalike vocal"

aka 90% of British chart pop in the last 10 years

you made me laugh, cortana!

went to school with two of these absolute dullards, i have latterly realised. one of them was so indistinct i didn't even know him, and i made a point of knowing who everyone was

That advert really makes me want to punch them all, hard.

clean bandit sounds like some sort of no-brand cillit bang

we're far enough from the EOYs to say with some impunity that everyone who voted for them is a literal disgrace

Don't give a hoot who they are or where they come from. Rather Be's still a jam.

Agree 100%, even hearing it on the radio every day for the best part of a year hasn't killed it.

I'm glad people get so much joy from it, cannot fucking stand it personally.

Their non-"Rather Be" tracks are terrible.

"Their non-"Rather Be" tracks are terrible."

this is true =\

and the "rather be" video is horsewaste, too. still was the best thing all over radio last year

enjoyed the first 5 seconds of water before the music started

seeing the advert they feature in is the closest i've come to putting a boot through my tv since david cameron was announced as uk prime minister.