Cobra Starship (feat. Icona Pop) - "Never Been In Love" [Music Video]
Last August Cobra Starship premiered the audio of "Never Been In Love", the first single from the dance-pop band's upcoming fifth studio album (Warner), and two months later here is the official music video for the first Cobra Starship and Icona Pop collaboration.
The song is cool, but sounds “dated” in a way, and I don’t think putting Cobra and Icona together was Warner Bros. Records' most brilliant move. I would have made Cobra record a collab with Jason Derulo instead. Cobra and Icona's careers are dying and making them record a collaboration is just suicide. You have to put a dying artist together with a still-successful one not one whose career is also in critical condition (Icona Pop). And if you do make that bad decision, at least make the song good, not average. "Never Been In Love" has a cool care-free, rebel teenage vibe, and the EDM-rock production isn't "bad" but the whole sound of it although "not bad" is "dated" for 2014. Should Cobra Starship had released this 2 years ago in the "Night Shades" era it would smash but now? Nop. And I ain't mistaken. Since being released last August "Never Been In Love" has generated zero buzz.
"Never Been In Love" video review
A nice one-time watch video. Paparazzi and crazy fans chase Cobra Starship’s frontman Gabe Saporta in the morning and in the afternoon the hipster singer joins forces with the Icona Pop girls for a fun time at the fair. It sees a lot of walking around and hopping on the best attractions. The Swedish gals will also crash a bar's scenario to karaoke their "Never Been In Love" lines. Oh well, I get the “hipster” theme of the video, and I can deal with the at times colour, at times black and white scenes, and although I think the video is okay, it's definitely going to be a one-time watch for me. It was nice to watch, but more times? Why? There's really nothing about it that makes me want to watch it again.