Aaaah summer, such a wonderful time of year.
Just not for music: a season when the charts are jam-packed with novelty hits and the kind of records that wouldn’t get a look-in if 18-30 Brits decided to avoid heading for the overseas sun, preferring the thrill of a flooded caravan site in North Wales, spouting poetry and deconstructing the lyrics to Morissey’s ‘Everyday Is Like Sunday’.
WALKERMAN’S ‘Listen To Mama’ is reggae for people who can only contemplate buying a reggae record if Shaggy is gurning all over the place with underdressed women or for whom Trojan is a brand of condom. In its own way the song is fine and dandy with enough cheekiness to detract from its cheesiness but it’s inessential and inconsequential. Oh. Hang on a minute. That’s the perfect combination for a summer record.
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There is a strong whiff of Milli Vanilli about the whole affair. The outfit is fronted by a male model who has “worked with the likes of Nike, Converse and Ellesse” while the duo in the background has “already worked with many of the top names in the music industry”. Nicely vague that last bit. Apparently the record was used a couple of years ago in an advert for Vaseline. The lyrics – if you’re interested - outline the mishaps that befall a man when he tries it on with the kind of woman his mama warned him about.
Right, I’m off to Llandudno with my copy of ‘Bona Drag’.
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