This is one of those songs that begins badly and improves a bit as it progresses, but is never really going to be any cop. It’s got energy, sure, but the whole deal of fusing dance and indie… it's been done to death and was never any good in the first place, by and large. Stylistic fusions only work when done extremely well. Successful examples are rare.
So while the promotional bumph tells us that '"Fireworks" is a multi layered carnival of colours, an adrenaline filled floor filling anthem that blurs the boundaries between dance and indie-rock scenes' and that 'Bright synth sounds and wired dance beats, are given precise human form not through drum machines but by the electric instrumentation of this three piece', what we actually get is some crappy crossover of 90s indie and 90s chart dance. It sounds naff and dated, like it's trying to hard to be everything to everyone, and at the same time, not remotely in'spire'd (and if you think that pun's lame, you should hear the single).
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