The urgency and pace they provide adds real balls to the song, even if compared to Jackson's own original harmony parts and complex rhythms, Alien Ant Farm barge through the song like Bubbles in a china shop. It's undeniably good fun but ultimately a one-dimensional joke. The chart positions of this song as it wends it way up the chart. Now whilst songwriters the world over strive to express universal emotions in new ways, and connect with their audience this lyrical misadventure just doesn't do it. There's no emotion expressed, just a mathematical expression.
Dance music seems to have moved on so much.
Stronger material required I feel, if she is to become relevant again. In the shops September 17 Way, way after you thought there was no way back for this lot, there suddenly is. This is a record that at the start, from the opening bars, sounds quite weak and ill conceived. By the end of the song however, you may find you have been drawn in by the tune's innate catchiness. Give it three listens and you will definitely be banging your beer tankard on the table and singing along, The song has already been a hit in Germany who seen to be a little less snobbish about it than we are.