Dizzee Rascal - 'Sirens'
Way back in the history of what we now call modern music, a good way to test whether a new song was any good or not was to play it to someone over 20. If they screwed their face up, held their ears and started moaning on about how it was too loud and you couldn't really hear the words, or mention something about a nice tune that you could whistle...then the song was a definite hit and 'The Kids' would all break into their piggy banks and then rush out and buy it (as soon as the shops opened).
NOTE: VIDEO CONTAINS MILD SWEARING.
It's fair to say that if such a system still existed in any reliable sense, this song would be No.1 from now until FOREVER MORE. Not only does it totally fail to contain any kind of recognisable whistle-friendly melody, it's got the sound of a man taking the paint off a battleship with a chainsaw (or something similar), plus a bassline so massively heavy it could void the bowels of a herd of elephants and vaporise the sudden dung mountain before it hit the dust.
Better still, there's none of that honking novelty weirdness of the past, no quotations from 'Happy Talk', no cutesy packaging. Just three incredibly tense, action-packed verses, which get louder and more unhinged from beginning to end...and eventually it's like a typhoon in a scrap yard, with Dizzee in the middle acting like the missing link between raggedy-arsed screamo and scowly old hip hop.
In fact the only thing standing between this cacophony and total world domination is the fact that there are grown-ups who are not scared of songs with no tunes and the sound of metal against metal. Heck, they might even wait for the album to hit the online sales and check it out. No wonder 'The Kids' are all running towards McFly with open arms...
Download: Out now
CD Released: May 21st
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
The video is so strange!
is the sample he's used a Korn song? it sounds really familiar, but you can't quite hear it well enough through the pounding bass line. . . I'm pretty sure when I heard it, it cracked a couple of ribs!
The sample sounds like a section taken from Here to Stay from Korn's Untouchables album. Don't know for sure though.
I heard this song in a club and i thought it was a mash-up with korn's here to stay
The guitar riff is not korn, although it is very very similar to here to stay. Infact when he payed this at reading last year it was definetly a korn sample, so maybe he couldn't get permission for the sample, or didn't want to have to pay to use it.