Daveportivo's Cultural Evaluation Facility

So the threesome that brought us last summers biggest hit are trying to do it two years back to back. Frankly Holiday is a dud, I'm sure it will shift millions of copies and fly to number one, but this is the sound of creative bankruptcy. Dizzee is resting on his laurels with a rap about going on holiday and getting a tan, it's all rather too bland. While Calvin Harris got it spot on on Dance Wiv Me he's reverted to type with his vanilla euphoric Ibiza wankery, it's the type of synths that have been to death in the last ten years. It doesn't have the warm fuzzy tongue in cheek charm of Dance Wiv Me and it doesn't have the insane awesomeness of Bonkers. This track more than anything proves how much better Armand Van Helden is than Calvin Harris, Harris may be having success with his novelty dance tracks but he's got a long way to go before he reaches the hit maker status of Van Helden. It's a shame, I fully expect that I'll be dancing around to this song in clubs in the coming weeks and months, but I'm hardly thrilled, it's a hit, but it's boring, forgettable and cynical, everything that Bonkers and Dance Wiv Me weren't. It's time for Dizzee to get back to rapping, he's deserved to be a pop superstar, but it's time to get back to business, otherwise Jay Z will be coming for him next.