Gary got on with Michael like a house with rising damp
With the Premier League winding up this weekend, attention
will soon shift to The World Cup and everything that goes with it. Of course it’s
the football that matters, but it’s impossible to ignore the media paraphernalia
that goes with it, of which the primary example is of course the World Cup
song.
For this year’s effort the FA have shown their usual
imagination by roping in the one man ‘Can I have a Knighthood?’ campaign that
is Gary Barlow, and the result is like every electron in the former Take That
man’s body – bland.
Despite the fact that it’s not even a new song or a
substantial reworking of an old one, ‘Greatest Day’ seems to perfectly fit our
footballing era. Like most things involving Barlow it’s ever so slightly
insipid – Our Gary’s default expression being that of a man who’s mildly narked
that you haven’t used his favourite brand of tea bag. Like most X-Factor montage songs, any inspirational qualities it may have once had have been destroyed by a thousand saccharine shots of teary meetings with elderly relatives. Rather than a battle cry to go into battle for Harry and St George, it’s
the sort of song that might inspire you to do your tax returns early (or possibly not in Gary’s case).
