She guesses he has had the best education money can buy but didn’t come from money—and that he still carries a chip on his shoulder about the elites. That fits. Still, questions linger. Who were Bond’s parents? How did he become a secret agent? Why does he chase a bad guy up ...
“Fix You” just plain has “Brightside” against the ropes here. It’s 5 minutes long and boy does it make use of that sprawl. The audience has enough time to get used to things before that guitar riff arrives, and then there’s a whole back half of the song they have to somehow...
“Paper Planes” is an extremely creative tune that still stands as one of the weirder hit singles of the last decade. Weird is not what we want here. We’re looking for simple, banal, straight-for-the-gut wuss-rock. No one fits this description better than Keane and this is why the...