Gnarls Barkley - 'Run'
It might be because Estelle's song looks quite likely to do well in this week's Top 10, or because the weather has taken a turn for the sunny after all those storms, but, try as I might, I can't seem to get it together to be snarky about much music this week. It's most unsettling. I mean here's a song which is, to all intents and purposes, just 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley played at double-speed, with half the chords, and a less memorable chorus, by Gnarls Barkley themselves. And yet I can't seem to find fault with it.
It helps that the video is funny, but even without Justin Timberlake mucking about before it starts, the song would still cut through like a hot knife through buttocks. And it that sounds a little gorier than perhaps the expression you were expecting, you can blame Gnarls and their insistance on scaring the bejesus out of anyone listening.
Oh sure, they want you to shake a tailfeather too, but you can't mistake the threat in a line like "either you run right now or you'd best get ready to die", can you? And Cee-Lo has such passionate authority to his voice that it creates confusion as to whether you should just leg it now, or wait until after the song has finished and you've had a good shimmy.
I'm not going anywhere though. He can scream all he likes, nothing can spoil a good mood like this, unless Estelle fails or it starts raining, obv.
Download: Out now
CD Released: March 24th
(Fraser McAlpine)
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