LadySpinHead
Refugee
My thoughts on the song: it's a good, solid soundtrack pop song. Not fantastic, not terrible. Like someone else put it in the same category as Sweetest thing and WITS- and I like both of those songs well enough. It's been stuck in my head since first listen and I don't mind it one bit. I do wish for more guitar, maybe just brought up in the mix a bit, but maybe the vinyl will sound more balanced. It's catchy overall. If it was a first single off the new album, though, I might be a tiny bit disappointed. As it is, it does the job.
As for comparisons to Hold Me Thrill Me and Ground Beneath Her Feet, I'm not sure if those are fair. Hold Me already existed and had been cut from a previous album and was sitting in a no man's land waiting for the right medium. Batman just happened to work. And Ground was a partnership with Rushdie. It's going to have a different feel with someone else writing the lyrics, naturally. I get the impression Ordinary Love was written specifically for this film- of course, we don't know for sure, parts are probably taken from other songs here and there.
Overall it's a decent song, but I'm not judging the forthcoming album by it. It's good to have them back in whatever form.
As for comparisons to Hold Me Thrill Me and Ground Beneath Her Feet, I'm not sure if those are fair. Hold Me already existed and had been cut from a previous album and was sitting in a no man's land waiting for the right medium. Batman just happened to work. And Ground was a partnership with Rushdie. It's going to have a different feel with someone else writing the lyrics, naturally. I get the impression Ordinary Love was written specifically for this film- of course, we don't know for sure, parts are probably taken from other songs here and there.
Overall it's a decent song, but I'm not judging the forthcoming album by it. It's good to have them back in whatever form.