You Me At Six - Reckless

Released October 22nd 2012

Britain's favourite pop punkers You Me At Six are back with another infectious, heart broken yet still jolly sounding track from their 2011 album Sinners Never Sleep. Not much is done different to other songs in their back catalogue, teen friendly lyrics and cheesy American accents are here in droves as well as the 'we're lads with a heart of gold' video, it even includes them being tattooed and throwing up the horns! Madness I know.

I'll be honest, I've never been a fan of this band, I've never even really listened to them, I hate British pop punk with a passion, I think it was done to the best possible standards during the 90's by bands like Sum 41 and Blink 182, however there's something quite endearing about this song. They know who their market is and they are going to play it to their very best, while I find the lyrics very generic and completely mind numbing I can see that they're not making music to share a message, they're doing it for their young fans to dance around to. This is shown at around 2.30 in where there's a breakdown allowing their fans to sing along, which they do.

While they're not changing the world or giving people a message they are bringing happiness to millions of teenage girls and boys out there trying to prove how different they are to the other people in their class, and this is good, it'll never be my cup of tea but it's not as bad as other pop punk bands I've heard.