12 July 2012
Flo Rida followed at number one by Will.i.am: no doubt my enthusiasm is leaping off the screen at you. A couple of months earlier, our chart-topper was the glorious ‘Call Me Maybe’. Now, this.
‘This Is Love’ gives the people of 2012 what they want: insipid R&B-pop piano-plinking verses; the whoop-holler hip hop of Will.i.am’s own Black Eyed Peas with an inane “Hell yeah! chorus; a cookie-cutter EDM belt-out chorus from Rihanna-alike Dutch singer Eva Simons. It has the they’ll-eat-anything blandness, laziness and cynicism of a plastic-packed plain cheese sandwich from a train station vending machine. Hell? Yeah!
Irish Number Ones 