Greg Chiapello – Hot Coffee

Feb
24
posted by tommy

This song loses me immediately when it opens with some fairly vanilla coffee discussion but hold your judgement, we move forward from there. Copeland tried that song about cofee schtick and it didn’t work all too well. I think they got too caught up in the coffee dialogue which is, funnily enough, the same mistake that my friend Jared makes which is why he’s entirely intolerable to be around. Not Brisbane’s Greg Chiapello though, coffee is just a launchpad for Greg, as it should be for all of us. The song doesn’t full take flight until the piano line arrives with the chorus and the result is sickly sweet but unimaginably catchy. It’s something like Tobias Jesso Jr crossed with Roy Orbison. I’m into it.




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2 Comments
  1. 25/02/2015

    I don’t usually go for happy-go-lucky either, but Chiapello’s sound seems more like an upbeat attitude about reality rather than pseudo-sanguineness. Reminds me of Keane’s music in that way, too.

  2. 25/02/2015

    yeah me neither, this hook was enough to get me there though!