"Sometimes I'll write a chorus or the verse without pulling up the e-mail with the phrase," Mr. Schneider said.
The band – who write democratically – forgot to write a chorus ("Uh-huh, huh, uh-huh-huuuh-huh," it goes) but the melody lodges deep.
They're clearly nice chaps on the up, enjoying their moment in the zeitgeist – the trouble is they just don't seem to be able to write a chorus to save their lives.
Contestants will have to submit an original song, adapt a popular hit in a new style, and write a verse and chorus to a phrase given to them.
But they are like lines in search of a song for which no one has even written a chorus: fractured, lacking a coherent thread, and always in danger of neglecting glaring opportunities.
At the time, I was writing a chorus number called We Didn't See It Coming.
When La Monte Young writes a chorus as good as this, maybe he can step to Keith Allen, whose fat, Midas fingers are all over this once again.
And she can write a lovely chorus, even out of her reduced purview.
(It's hard not to cringe when Gift of Gab proclaims himself "Free, like a bird out in the wind in the night".) Fortunately, the group also knows how to write a catchy chorus, and its buoyant style should be well suited to a concert in the park, providing, of course, it doesn't rain.
