I didn't know any of these people before this in my project of listening to every Billboard #1 song and did a wikipedia check and still learned nothing interesting and that's reflective of this song. Nothing wrong but nothing interesting or uniquely grabbing. I keep waiting for it to do anything but it refuses too. So i have very little to say about it. This is Mid.
So wanted to take a break to and try to give a non-meme review to something that is a typical grifter song of two untalented hacks. Well, let me at least say I think Tom is technically an okayish... rapper. Because when you hear Adam Calhoun next to him it makes Tom sound like he actually is good comparatively. Because I'd take a dollar-store Republican Eminem style than Whatever the Hell Calhoun is trying to do on this song.
So my first takeaway is this. Isn't Tom like well off from music? ... read more
So this is a series of reviews. I'm doing of every #1 song on Billboard ever. And this was the very 1st ever. This song taught me that Teen idols were always a thing. This song is a very simple soft pop number but it's solidly sung and performed and there's an irresistible charm to the song. Despite the format of Teen idol lovelorn song has been done to death. This is one of the best examples of it. I have seen it personally.