Shiny

The new single by everyone’s favourite, slightly odd, High School Musical wannabes, ex X Factor runners up, all singing, all dancing musical brother-and-sister duo Same Difference is walking up and down the promenade for all to see, with the super-new video hitting our screens this week.

The single is called ‘Shine On Forever (Photo Frame)’ and is due for release on 29th August 2010.

Here at nigellaphonic-HQ, we love all things camp, all things pop and all things X Factor; this is a wet dream for us – ‘Shine On Forever’ is literally the most happy-powerpop-tune of the summer.

Here are some of the very good points about the whole song and dance:

- Sarah and Sean have grown up a bit (musically and literally), thus making this tune ‘pop’, rather than ‘kiddy-pop’ like ‘We R One’ et al..
- The song does not sound like something rejected by Disney for any of the HSM movies.
- This is a pop song with a big pop chorus, a scarce sight for the modern pop tune.
- There is a lot of sexy bass action in the verse.
- Both Sean and Sarah sound bloody fantastic.
- The style lies somewhere between S Club 7, Cascada and Britney. An excellent mix, non?
- The video features heavy petting (not between Sean and Sarah), interracial relations and a beginners version of JLS-style dance-routines.
- The song sounds like something taken off a Eurovision album – this *is* a good quality!

Some of the very bad points…

- Sean is still pretending to be straight.
- Sarah is still frustratingly over-eager.
- There’s a lot of hardcore-stylee jacket flipping and hand waggling which makes them look like old people trying to be street. Bad move.
- The lyrics aren’t exactly amazing – the repetition of the word “photo frame” is weird. Nevermind, eh?!

All in all the song is unashamedly poptastic, sounds excellent and frankly it deserves to do very well chart wise considering some of the poor pieces of work out there these days!

Here is the video for you to peruse: