Arriving on waves of singer/songwriter-lite popularity comes the good ship Sandi Thom, laden with the cargo of her second single, What If I'm Right. Unfortunately this cargo is about as welcome to your humble reviewer as the rats were to plague-ridden London.
One would have to have lived in a cave deep under the ocean to have missed the penetrating waves of Thom's first single I Wish I Were A Punk Rocker, which used easy rhymes, nonsense lyrics and an obvious beat to create a song that was as regrettably unforgettable as a bout of syphilis, or the Macarena. What If I'm Right kicks of with the rhyme of "And be there till the end/ On you I can depend", instantly displaying an incredible lack of creative imagination or any skill at song writing. From here the song blunders on in this vein with the general hard-hitting message of "what if everything isn't just really nice?". At least the Macarena knew it was mindless fun; a quick sojourn at Sandi's myspace page seems to indicate a worrying amount of the 'my-lyrics-have-meaning' sensibility, which is at best misguided and at worst a lie to sooth the conscience of her listeners.
To say that I hope this song will be buried and forgotten about is an understatement, but I'm afraid that I have to predict that it will be just as successful as its predecessor. All that there is left to do now is turn off the TV and radio for approximately a month, or perhaps even look into that cave under the sea idea...
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