It's a dream pairing: top songwriters Gary Barlow and Andre Lloyd Webber combining to write a song together. Whatever they produce is almost certainly guaranteed to be a number one hit.
But...
Isn't it awful?
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The lyrics aren't that bad but the hook? "SI-I-I-I-NG" Is it a hook? It's a sort of collective whine.
It's even got the ghastly "Army Wives" on it. *shudder*
It takes bland to a new low.
And no, it's not because I'm opposed to the monarchy and won't be celebrating the jubilee that I dislike it. It's just a bad song.
If there was to be a communal sing song of it the chorus is more likely to sound like a herd if sick cows.
A disappointing song to mark a disappointing and idiotic institution. Maybe it is a match made in heaven?
It starts off with the piano refrain from Man or Muppet then morphs into 'No one quite like Grandma' then every charity song garbage cliche in the book is thrown into the mix and an awful coupling of 'Nearer - hear-yer'. Mr GB is one of our premier songwriters, but that is just garbage.
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