Remi Nicole - 'Go Mr Sunshine'
According to Ms Nicole, you can only tell it's summertime if it's light at bedtime, if you're hot, if you're a man with no top on and if you've a new bikini (from a very specific high street retailer) to brag about to your friends. Can I just reassure all ChartBlog readers past and present that if this is true, I have NEVER EVER experienced the full delights of a British summer. Not once. And even if I had, there would be NO pictures of me doing it. Not a one. Nada. Zip.
Wait, before you all go and throw up at all these pungent images, let's pause for a tiny second to examine the rest of this strident little beauty. What we've got here is a resurrection of the great Britpop knees-up, an artful (dodger) upgrade of the kind of swaggering 'Lambeth Walk'-style chipper cockney swagger-song you used to be able to see pearly kings and queens doing down the Old Kent Road, once upon a time (in Jack White's imagination).
And in keeping with the latest developments in modern songwriting for the lady singer-songwriter (naming no names...but they rhyme with Willy Gallon and Bait Stash), there's plenty of deftly-spotted, slice-of-lemon-life lyrical wisdom for non-dancers to nod sagely alone with, while the show-offs are bouncing about like those cheeky cockneys I was talking about earlier.
Sadly, despite scoring major art points for having a video in which she performs in front of animated beer crates, Remi lets the side down a bit by not dressing as a pearly queen or king, nor does she yell "OI!" at any point. But there IS a brilliant trad jazz interlude instead of the third verse, and that more than makes up for it.
Whether it makes up for the mental image of yours truly in a bikini is a whole other thing. Try not to think about it, is my advice...
Download: Out now
CD Released: August 20th
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
I love this song! Makes me feel 100 percent happy, and maybe it's stopped the curse of 'Umbrella' - since the first time I heard it earlier this month, it's been SUNNY, SUNNY, SUNNY! :)
Nice girl but could do with shouting a bit less.
I love a tune with a sunny disposition and this is up there with the best... only thing is, why is it being released near the end of summer??? better late than never i guess. i too blame mrs Umbrella for the constant rubbishness on the weather front... well that and mother nature.
Lor' luv a duck! Not on yaaahr Nelly 'ave I 'eard so rabi' 'utch rubbish van da all dis so called street life nonsense. Know what I mean?
Gawdon Bennet! The sooner they all learn 'ow ter speak proper an' behave like da proper little middle class madams they are, da be'er.
I 'ad what Lily Allen in da back ov my cab once. OK?
one word.. ew! now ill get nightmares from your my chem pic thingy AND the scarring mental images infront of my eyes at this very second.
you are single handedly destroying my mind!
I love this song, it rocks!
I love Remi Nicole's Go Mr Sunshine... I really hope people go out to support her when the single drops. the song's awesome and think she is absolutely adorable.
all the songs are lovely.... simply mind blowing!!