Now there's a very obvious reason to be excited about a new Saturday's single. Visually at least.
It's a shame then that the music doesn't match. The girls have had a few decent pop tracks in the past, but Notorious just doesn't hit the mark. It's always a bad sign when the first bit of singing is so overly autotuned it sounds like a squeaking Barbie doll. The production is typically dance tinged and lyrically, this is vacuous stuff - "I'm like, I'm like, I'm like this beat, yes, crazy and infectious". Erm... not really.
Most criminal of all though is the chorus - or distinct lack-of. More so than being bad and gangster, the girls are notorious for their catchy, hook-laden choruses. But this song is an absolute anticlimax, crescendoing to nothing. Couple that with the visuals and it's like a teenage boy's wet dream, but without the happy ending.
For my money, there's only one track that can bare the name 'Notorious' and that's this.
2/5
