Saturday Song Review: "No Shame' by 5 Seconds of Summer

So I do not count myself as a 5 Seconds of Summer fan, they have songs I like like “Youngblood” and “Teeth” but I have never brought a 5 Seconds of Summer album or felt the need to, I have never really cared about them all that much however on Thursday, the band dropped the third single from their upcoming fourth album “CALM” called “No Shame” and because I didn’t have anything better to do, I decided that I would check it out, heck, if it was bad, I could quickly move on so what was “No Shame” like?

Holy shit, I do not know what to say because “No Shame” has been the song I have come back to a lot since it was released even as I checked out new releases from Niall Horan, Joji (“Run” is excellent and well worth giving a stream by the way), Human Nature ( and Anne Marie, “No Shame” was the song I kept coming back to hear again and again, there’s an addictive quality to the song that gets me every single time to the point listening to anything else felt like sheer disappointment for a good hour last night.

“No Shame” is unashamedly pop rock with a sweet guitar riff that repeats through the track and reminds me a lot of the pop rock around in the late 2000s complete with verse and bridge that builds into an explosive chorus with Luke hitting the high part of his vocal range for the chorus.

The subject matter of the song is pretty dark though, dealing with issues surrounding fame, the visceral high the band gets of being famous and obsessed fans expecting and demanding more and more which is an absolute pitfall of fame especially in the age of social media where fans are closer to their favourite bands/artists more so than ever and honestly the music video really does depict what fame must feel like to those in celebrity circles. 

I guess the one real nit-pick is the quick leap from the chorus into the second verse, would have loved a little guitar or something in between the chorus and second verse but otherwise this is a terrific pop rock song. Check it out!

My rating for "No Shame": 8.5/10

Saturday Song Review: "Yummy" by Justin Bieber...a gastronomic disaster of a song

Justin Bieber is back with a new single entitled “Yummy” after spending some time away from music…okay, not completely away, he has been a guest artist on others songs like “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, the two DJ Khaled songs/posse cuts that I’ve completely forgotten about and “10,000 Hours” by Dan and Shay last year, “Yummy” is the first single from the new album that’s supposed to be coming this year and with Bieber looking to go down the R ‘n’ B lane, I was kind of interested so what did we get from the Biebs on “Yummy” and was it a delight to the ears?

Honestly, “Yummy’ is the sort of song that leaves you with that feeling in the pit of your tummy that this meal is not at all yummy and a complaint needing to be delivered to the chef or the chefs that cooked this up because what Justin Bieber has served up as his lead off single for a brand new album is some of the most bargain barrel and lazy trend hopping I’ve seen in some time, there is no creativity on display in the instrumentation AT ALL with pop fused with trap that fucking Post Malone did better on “Hollywood’s Bleeding”. “Yummy’ doesn’t even give have a satisfying pay off within the instrumentation among the pop/trap drear.

Although considering those behind the production include Sasha Sirota (featured artist on Zac Brown’s atrocious song “Swayze”) and Poo Bear (also has a credit on the last Zac Brown Band album) its not really surprising the instrumentation and production on this song suck.

The boring instrumentation means we’re forced to focus on the lyrics and honestly? The lyrics are terrible with that chorus being one of of the most bargain barrel and lazy I’ve heard in some time, he repeats “yummy-yum” six times and ‘babe’ six times, I mean come on THREE people (In this case Bieber, Ashley Boyd and Poo Bear) sitting around a table should be able to come up with a better chorus than this:

 “Yeah, you got that yummy-yum

That yummy-yum, that yummy-yummy

Yeah, you got that yummy-yum

That yummy-yum, that yummy-yummy

Say the word, on my way

Yeah babe, yeah babe, yeah babe

Any night, any day

Say the word, on my way

Yeah babe, yeah babe, yeah babe

In the mornin' or the late

Say the word, on my way”

Also I can’t help but think that “Yummy-yum” is rhyming slang for “eating out’ and I don’t mean at a restaurant or fast food (think sexual innuendo and then be completely grossed out)

Also if the song is about his wife Hailey then why the hell does he call her a stallion in the first verse? A stallion is a male horse!.

The prechorus contains the proverbial bragging about money with Justin begging Hailey to help him spend the millions they have between him (like his fans could connect to having millions of dollars and yet again the instrumentation doesn’t much that feeling of that much god damn luxury.

So the instrumentation and the lyrics are garbage, what about Justin Bieber himself? Well, it doesn’t help Bieber sings the chorus with the same amount of enthusiasm or passion that I have for putting on still damp socks, he sounds bored out of his mind, if this is a love song you’d think Bieber would insert some passion into his vocals especially on the chorus where midway through he leaps into a Post Malone cadence because somehow he has to make the song INTERESTING.

If Justin Bieber wants to go down the R’n’ B lane, he could do better by getting in contact with Usher or at least stars within the R’n’B fold that can make the songs smooth as all hell and sexier than this mess rather than working with Poo Bear who seems to get around as much as bloody Marshmello. 

"Yummy" isn't a good sign for what we might get on this new album because if it's more garbage like this than...oh dear.

Avoid this song like its got a food poisoning warning over it because you’ll end up with a bad tummy ache in the end.

Rating; 1/10