Stop Shit Music

Football songs, and by extension World Cup songs are meant to be terrible. You can’t usually mix football and music to any great degree of success. That said, they’re not usually as terrible as this. I’ve honestly had nightmares that were more pleasant than listening to this.

James Corden’s involvement in this is no surprise because it was obviously a terrible idea from the beginning and it was a chance for him to get some much-needed exposure, as this article points out.

But Dizzee Rascal, wow. He’s really trying his hardest to get rid of all that pesky ‘credibility’ he used to have, isn’t he? He’s only a few miserable steps away from appearing on a charity single with Tony Christie and Peter Kay. He’s becoming a family friendly version of his former self, and as about as respectable as N-Dubz. Go on, keep making a tit of yourself Dizzee, it’s great fun to watch.

‘Musically’ the song is an insane mixture of jarring samples, a big cacophonous mess that even Boyd Rice couldn’t hope to match. Never before has the work of Tears for Fears been treated with such disregard and contempt.

Then again, maybe the actual music isn’t important – just that everyone SHOUTS and that we have yet another platform for James Corden, to make us question how talented you need to be to get on television and to re-affirm that football songs are generally, almost always rubbish.